San Francisco Neighborhoods See main article: Neighborhoods in San Francisco, California An intersection of Chinatown in San Francisco. Victorian houses ("Painted Ladies") at Alamo Square Like many large cities in the US, San Francisco has a Japantown and Chinatown; both are among the largest and oldest in the US. It also boasts a budding Vietnamese community in the Tenderloin neighborhood, Filipinos in Crocker Amazon, an Italian community in North Beach, a French Quarter, an Irish and Russian community in the Richmond District. The predominantly Hispanic Mission District is one of the oldest neighborhoods, as it was the site of one of the twenty one missions in California. Russian Hill is probably most noted for the top end of that portion of Lombard Street that is sometimes referred to as "the crookedest (most winding) street in the world". Haight-Ashbury gained prominence during the 1960s as one of the prominent concentrations of hippies. The Castro neigborhood has the worlds highest concentration of Gays. The Citys African American population is concentrated in the southeastern Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods. The Richmond, on the west side of the city and North of Golden Gate Park, is predominantly Asian. Arguably, the point of gravity in terms of demographic and land use change is moving east & south. The South of Market neighborhood was one of the epicenters of the dot-com boom of the 1990s thus being a showcase of contemporary urban development. A new neighborhood is being developed at the far eastern end of South of Market that is being called Mission Bay. The cornerstone of this development is the new SBC Park baseball stadium and an extension of the University of California, San Francisco medical school. Related topics: Maps of San Francisco, California

