West Portal is a small neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is at the southern edge of the hills in the interior of the city. Because of West Portal's small size and mom and pop stores, restaurants, and saloons, the neighborhood is often described as having a village atmosphere. The neighborhood is served by a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Like Glen Park, the neighborhood is one of San Francisco's metro-centered communities...
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West Portal is a small neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is at the southern edge of the hills in the interior of the city. Because of West Portal's small size and mom and pop stores, restaurants, and saloons, the neighborhood is often described as having a village atmosphere. The neighborhood is served by a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Like Glen Park, the neighborhood is one of San Francisco's metro-centered communities. The neighborhood's main corridor, West Portal Avenue, serves as a principal shopping street for much of southwestern San Francisco.
The neighborhood is named for the western terminus of the Muni tunnel beneath Twin Peaks that opened in 1918, the street (West Portal Avenue) and adjacent district is still dominated by the frequent trundlings of the four Muni Metro lines (K, L, M and T) that emerge from the subway to run in the street median. The ride in the subway from West Portal to downtown/Union Square is about fifteen to twenty minutes....
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