Dispatches filed from Telegraph Hill, in reverse chronological order.
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At the top of the Vallejo Street stairway, just where the wooden steps give way to the scrubby hillside vegetation, a cluster of cherry-headed conures spent a recent afternoon doing what they do — moving…
By Casey Wong, Neighborhoods · May 24, 2026
In a city where a mediocre lunch runs you $22 and a one-bedroom apartment costs more than a mortgage in most of America, it's nice to be reminded…
If you've glanced toward Telegraph Hill lately and thought you were witnessing either the rapture or a Batman signal, you're not alone.
The famous flock of cherry-headed conures — the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill — has called San Francisco home for decades, and spotting them remains…
Take a look at Coit Tower and the Bay Bridge sitting side by side against the San Francisco skyline, and you're looking at something this city hasn't…
If you've never had the pleasure of walking up the Vallejo Stairway in Telegraph Hill and being loudly heckled by a gang of wild parrots, you're…
The Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill — one of San Francisco's most iconic urban staircases and a legit tourist draw — are getting a cleanup.
There's a version of the San Francisco story we hear constantly — the one where people leave.