Precita Park Explained

Precita Park
Type:	Municipal
Location:	San Francisco, California
Coords:	37.7471°N -122.412°W
Operator:	San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department

Precita Park is a 2.06acres municipal park in San Francisco, California.^[1] It is located at Folsom Street and Precita Avenue, which bounds both the north and south sides of the park, and is also bordered by Alabama Street, in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.

History

The park gets its name from the Precita Creek. In the area now called "Precita Park", a village had developed by the 1860s. The village drew its water from an upstream portion of the creek and used the creek as an open sewer.^[2] Between the 1880s and the 1900s, Precita Creek was paved over to create Army Street (now Cesar Chavez Street).^[3]

See also

• Precita Eyes

External links

• Precita Park, at Yelp
• Precita Park, at Foursquare City Guide
• Precita Park, at Onthegrid

Notes and References

1. Web site: Precita Park . . February 2, 2023.
2. Web site: Cesar Chavez Design Workshop Tonight; Precita Creek Past and Future . 2009-02-24 . Burrito Justice.
3. Web site: Lapin . Todd . A Brief History of How Cesar Chavez/Army Street Became So Damn Awful in the First Place . 2013-08-14 . Bernalwood.