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NEARBY
ATTRACTIONS:
Here are just a few sights that are walking distance from the
Hive:
Hyde
Street Cable Car
Catch
the cable car and head straight to Fisherman's Warf, China Town,
or downtown.
 Lombard
Street
Lombard
Street is famous for having a steep, one-block section that consists
of tight hairpin turns.
Lombard
Street is best known for the one way section on Russian Hill between
Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp
turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction
of being "the crookedest [most winding] street in world."
The
Powell-Hyde cable car line stops at the top of this block.
The
Diego Rivera Mural at the San Francisco Art Institue
An
exquistite fresco is on permanent display at SF's premier fine
arts school, SFAI.
Russian
Hill / Polk Street
Russian
Hill is a great street for shopping and dining.
Read
more here.
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NEIGHBORHOOD LITERARY HISTORY: Jack Kerouac wrote
some of his work in Neal Cassady’s tiny attic at
29 Russell Street. Armistead Maupin’s fictional
Barbary Lane in Tales of the City was based on the beautifully
landscaped Macondray Lane, but the lesser-known Havens
Street is where Maupin lived when penning his page-turner.
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