I haven't been in love with San Francisco for a very long time. Perhaps love for a city cannot survive long when one is relentlessly faced with the sort of street life for which our neighborhood has become infamous.

But in my new spirit of attempting to focus on the positive, today I decided to try to seek out some of the City's redeeming features as I walked nine blocks of Post Street, from a block from where I live, to the foot of Post, at Market Street.

Traversing the Tenderloin/Nob Hill border, passing through Union Square (and past Prada, Tiffany, Cartier, etc.) and ending up in the Financial District -- all in just nine blocks -- gives one a sense of how extremely compact San Francisco is.

the Warrington Apartments building, with some fine detailing and a graceful circular staircase

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