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Neighborhoods Issue: This is Your San Francisco

If there’s anything San Franciscans feel fiercely about, it's their neighborhood. That’s why our upcoming Neighborhoods Issue—a groundbreaking portrait of the city's top 10 neighborhoods—will be our most exciting yet. Rather than write and photograph the neighborhoods from our point of view, this time, we’re going straight to the people that know the city inside and out: YOU.

For this collectors’ issue, we're asking you to submit your most telling photos to Flickr or up to a 300-word “love letter” to your neighborhood below—one that captures its heart and soul, glamour and grit. (Hey, love is complicated!)

Give it your all because we’ll be publishing the most compelling photos and the 10 best essays in the magazine itself. Our submission deadline is Friday, June 12.

The contributors of the best write-up and photograph will win pairs of VIP Outside Lands tickets.



Check out our Terms and Conditions.

Click on your neighborhood to send it a love letter

• Bayview  5

• Bernal Heights  8

• Castro  7

• Cole Valley  7

• Chinatown and
Financial District  8

• Dogpatch  4

• Excelsior  3

• Glen Park  9

• Hayes Valley  8

• Ingleside  1

• Inner Richmond9

 • Inner Sunset  3

• Laurel Heights and
Presidio Heights  6

• Lower Haight  12

• Lower Pac Heights  5

• Marina/Cow Hollow  17

• Mission  13

• Nob Hill/Russian Hill  14

• Noe Valley  9

• NoPa and
Western Addition  12

• North Beach and
Telegraph Hill  12

• Outer Richmond  14		 • Outer Sunset  8

• Pacific Heights  7

• Portola  1

• Potrero Hill  3

• Soma  7

• Tenderloin and
Tendernob  17

• Twin Peaks
and Diamond Heights  2

• Union Square  3

• Upper Haight  10

• West Portal/Forest Hill  1