Hunters Point (The Point) or Bayview-Hunters Point or The Bayview is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Francisco, California. It is also known as the Port because of the former naval base.
Hunters Point, named after a local family during the nineteenth century, is located in the extreme southeastern part of San Francisco, strung along the main artery of Third Street from India Basin to Candlestick Point. Bayview-Hunters Point, known ...
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Hunters Point (The Point) or Bayview-Hunters Point or The Bayview is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Francisco, California. It is also known as the Port because of the former naval base.
Hunters Point, named after a local family during the nineteenth century, is located in the extreme southeastern part of San Francisco, strung along the main artery of Third Street from India Basin to Candlestick Point. Bayview-Hunters Point, known to many San Franciscans as "HP," is a predominantly African-American area. The neighborhood has a population of 20,322 and is roughly 60% African-American.
Hunters Point is home to many family businesses, community organizations, home recording studios, and churches that have thriving congregations. Many of the African-Americans in the area are the children of the massive Southern migration of the 1940s, during which thousands of African-Americans came from Southern states for job opportunities at the burgeoning war industries at the Hunters...
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