Walking Downtown San Francisco, CA | Union Square, Tenderloin, Market Street
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- San Francisco, located on the western coast of the United States, is a vibrant and culturally rich city that captivates visitors with its unique charm and stunning natural beauty.
The city is renowned for its iconic landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, a magnificent suspension bridge that spans the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. The bridge's bright orange-red color and graceful design have made it an internationally recognized symbol.
In this video, I walk through the popular Union Square area before visiting the Tenderloin District, and then making my way to Market Street to the San Francisco Ferry Building.
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Recorded May 22, 2023
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Climbing all those hills makes one physical fit
I feel like I was there in person...No words...Just Wow...Seding kisses from Fresno, CA
If you look at Al Roker's weather every morning, you will see that SF has the
perfect 68 degrees, while the rest of the country is 110. EVERYDAY !
Damn right 👉
I’m from Philly I wish our bad areas looked this good
It used to be swarming with thousands of people, sidewalks full. Seeing a few pedestrians here and there is eerie.
This place is getting negative publicity …is that why?
Covid. Before covid I commuted to work into the city every day. Now it's once a week. Even the people that live in the city telecommute.
We have styrofoam lagging on scaffolding walkways…its safer..
That's the way the world works. You can always move to Tuscaloosa.
Nobody likes walking in s*** and dodging needles
SAN Francisco seems more ‘laid back’ than New York City. This could be my next trip. Thank you AK
They are laid back but they’re not nice people. I found New York to be more down to earth and less stuffy
@@happydayz7857 Lol, you're kidding, right?
@@TohaBgood2much easier to make friends in nyc than the entirety of the SF Bay Area. I grew up in the bay, moved to nyc. At least my own experience.
@@laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv Definitely your experience. New Yorkers are wildly rude and abrasive like most people from large cities. Californians in general, and Bay Area people in particular are a lot softer and nicer. People actually smile at each other and say hi in the neighborhoods.
I've never experienced anything even remotely similar in NYC. I've lived there for a few years and commuted back for consulting work for years. Still do sometimes.
What a contrast to NYC in terms of hustle and bustle. A completely different vibe. Thanks for sharing.
Much appreciated!
It’s usually busier than this honestly
@@lanisehoward8397 not since covid
@@deenzmartin6695 I know 🥲
New Yorkers who only know NYC have no idea how empty American cities are. Check out St. Louis, Memphis, and a bunch of other cities in the south and midwest. They are basically ghost towns and depressing.
One of the most beautiful cities in the world😊
*WAS
@@kathleenevans1201 why "was"?
Downtown is empty bc most workers haven't returned. You walked an 8-blk area, before heading down market to ferry bldg which survived 1906 earthquake. The fountain (lotta) you walked by, was where survivors posted info to find survivors. Every yr, a survival celebration takes place there. Btw, people wearing shorts, short sleeves, sleeveless= tourists😊 51 yrs resident❤
Shorts means tourist? Because it’s cold there?
I used to live on Geary at Leavenworth, before pandemic. Looks like it hasn't changed much since then. Thanks for the upload!!
I enjoyed seeing the old architectures, hilly streets, and the vintage street cars and cable cars. 😍 It's eye-opening to see Tenderloin and many of the people needing help. 🙁 Thank you for sharing this informative walk, AK! 🤗
You’re welcome! It’s sad to see all the people in need.
@@ActionKiddid u make any new friends on tenderloin u know im talkin about those drug addicted and them homeless 😄
Nice video, wonderful walking tour in San Fransisco
You’re welcome
5:20 The St. Francis Hotel.
Thanks for the quick walk in San Francisco; it looks like a pretty day to be out and about. I thought our town had lots of financially-strapped people but this was an eye-opener.
Much appreciated, it was a gorgeous day!
It's wild how much of a ghost town SF looks like now. Growing up there, and going to art school there, there were always lots of people on Market street, Powell st, and in Union square. In general the whole downtown area was always full of people... tourists, shoppers, art students, finance guys, and of course the homeless.
Ghost towns are VERY common in many American cities. Check out St.Louis, Memphis and a bunch of cities in the south and Midwest. So many empty streets. America is primarily busy only in the northern east coast cities, south Florida, Chicago, Vegas and a couple other regions. The rest of the country city downtowns are mostly empty or minimal
@@ramencurry6672 Downtown San Francisco was not a ghost town before.
@Mwolfe It isn't any more of that.
Yin and Yang. If I were an RE babe I'd be buying the shit out of this place.
@@mwolfe2022 It's not a ghost town now either. DT SF was always busy during the 9-5 and people always complained that it was a ghost town outside of the 9-5. I've literally listened to these complaints my entire life. But this is more due to the lack of housing in the area than anything sinister, like what you are implying.
Thanks for posting!
Youre The Best ActionKid!
OK. Viva Amerikai Egyesult Allamok./USA./Kalifornia: San Francisco 2023.
Thank you, I felt I was on the walk, beautiful city and peaceful. Hope I can visit in person soon. Good blend of architecture.
Where's all the homeless people that Foxnews is always showing on their channel?
Tenderloin; a small section of the city. Its always exaggerated. Every city has a seedy portion of it, SF is no different.
They’re in the alley ways, walk on market street and go too far left or right and you’ll most certainly find them, especially at the start of where Turk and market intersect
@@Iamblahblah111so basically it’s like every other major city?
Glad to have ppl that do this... ty fellow human
Beautiful!
I love your amazing videos from NYC 🗽 more
Dope video Action Kid on San Francisco.
Loving the San Francisco footage Action Kid.❤
Much appreciated!
That's not Fisherman's Warf. It's the Embarcadero.
Thanks a k so glad to find you again i wasn't for sure where you were filming these days I missed you😊
It looks much better than L.A. cleaner, beautiful trees, and amazing architecture. Very nice walking,. Thank you so much, Bye.
You have to be there to see the real trash heap it has become.
@@kathleenevans1201 still more foot traffic than la
@@kathleenevans1201Is it worth living in San Fransisco being from LATAM? Are the people cool? How big is the Latin community there?
Watching from my city Governador Lindenberg Brazil.Nice 👍🇧🇷
Beautiful sunny day and the city looks pretty clean
It was gorgeous!
Tourist parts of SF will never die. It's the city's life's blood.
Londoner here. Last travelled to SanFran in 2000 much busier with people traffic then. I think covid changed so much in big cities, so many people work from home and shop online, lots of central London is empty now. And then fear of crime /asb drives people to stick to where they know and not stroll around so much. That said hope to return to San Fran one day...
Looks like they’ve cleaned up the city, no tents!
Good Video!! You showed the beauty of the city!!
Happy Memorial Day, Action Kid!🤗🎉🎉🎆🎆🍎
Great video. Thank you.
I was just there , your video makes it look better than in person … the homeless drug addicted there were never residents of SF , it’s been incredibly expensive to live there forever, they come to town for handouts and easy drug access that lefty cities are known for.
Thanks for watching! San Francisco is a beautiful city but not without its challenges.
@DF please stop the propaganda. hella annoying.
@@deenzmartin6695 Lol, look at you trying to use "hella" to pretend like you're a local. Now that it's gone national the locals have been shying away from using it. It's no longer our thing. And by the way, that's originally an Oakland thing, so San Franciscans are not particularly notorious for using it.
But C+ for effort! At least you tried to pretend like you're from here 😁😁😁
Just casually threw in a "hella", lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@TohaBgood2 wrong
@@TohaBgood2 show me where i said i live in the city. i'll wait.
Having worked for approximately. a year & half in SF’s Financial District quite a while ago, I enjoyed seeing virtually my former stomping grounds. The long line to board the Powell Street cable car hasn’t changed at all.
Cool 😎
You should take video and walk couple block more, so we could see different views. Please do it again after 5PM without bulletproof vest! 🤣
Great video through the streets of San Francisco! I guess it's not as bad as they say ...
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Everyone is GONE😮
it's worse. you obviously don't live there.
@@deenzmartin6695 Lol, I live here. The Tenderloin is rough, but you just don't go there. Problem solved.
@@TohaBgood2 you probably also think LONDON BREED is a good mayor 🙄
Was in san Francisco for a week, this city looked great to me and my family! Thanks
Glad you had a great vacation 😊
Great how? Everywhere it is a ghost town. What, so you didn't have to go anywhere and saved a lot of money by not spending on anything because there is nothing left to spend on? Good for you. I empathize with you, when you don't have to waste money on touristy things.
@@riproar11 Lol, dude. Are you really trying to do the whole "don't believe your lying eyes" thing? Cause if you are I want to see more of it. Just let me get the popcorn first 😁😁😁
@@TohaBgood2 Go waste your money.
@@riproar11 Oh, I make my own popcorn. It's better than store-bought, fresh, and pretty cheap to make.
But you go right ahead! Tell us how what we saw is not what we saw and how orange Jeebus will come save us all! We're listening. Go!
🍿😋
Oh God,I remember when you had few thousands subscribers)Did you move on in San Francisco from NY?) Glad to see you again)God Bless🤍🕊☘
Thank you for posting this. I just visited SF for the first time in early May !
How did you find it? I'm thinking of going but lots of people are saying it's not as good as it used to be and there's homeless people all around etc
Sad looks so empty not the
sanfrancisco i remember not doing anything about it. Wow
Good vid. Haven’t been there for some time. Thanks for showing the side of S.F. the MSM doesn’t.
Everything looks very clean, modern and nice. I am not seeing all the horrible things that so many people are saying about San Francisco.
I use to live there and it can get pretty bad at night mainly robbers but if you look like you have nothing you will have nothing to worry about.
@@xong8254no a majority of the city is clean .. it’s the small area of dirtiness that people think represents the entire city
Yes, a small portion of San Francisco has homeless people and drug addicts. The other 95% is clean. Downtown is only about 1/4 four due to people working at home. The old way of commuting downtown has ended.
@@xong8254 Lol, nope. This is literally supposed to be one of the "dirty and dangerous" parts according to the right wing propaganda.
SF is overall a pretty clean city. Just stay out of the Tenderloin and you'll be fine. That's the part you saw on the news. All of Fox News's segments are shot on that same four-block square in the TD. Everything else honestly looks cleaner than before the pandemic. It seems that they might have doubled the pressure washing schedule.
Very nice walk, used full screen, felt like I was there. Loved the Wells Fargo bldg. I can't help but to notice all the empty store fronts tho . Thanks !
Where is everyone ?
Wow! I use to spend alot of time in SF and san jose. Where are all the people? Early to mid 2000's the streets were so pack it was difficult to do walking tours.
The tenderloin is more than just struck with poverty.
For a beautiful day at noon, I’ve never seen so little pedestrian or vehicular traffic in SF. On the sidewalks in the areas around Union Square it used to be packed with people every day. At this time of the day, no one passing through the doors of Macy’s, empty chairs and tables in the park, no one at the bike rentals. This is a retail and economic cancer/disaster spreading through this city. I saw another video done in the past week walking up Powell St. From Market, and every store and hotel closed.
The businesses have all left
This is nonsense. SF did get pretty busy before the pandemic but it wasn't a constant carnival. This looks pretty normal for an average weekend walk in SF. You people keep imagining stuff. Meanwhile, tourism in SF is back to 80% of pre-pandemic levels. Reality does not agree with your biases.
Res ipsa loquitur.
@@michaelotruba1308 Lol, sure. All of a sudden the city is different that it has always been because you right wingers want it to be. And no evidence to the contrary can prove you wrong because everything it based on "feels" and "vibes."
What does the 80% hotel occupancy compared to pre-pandemic tell you? What about the fact that it was only 50% last year and 30% in 2021? Does that speak for itself as well?
Thank you!
Awesome!!
I've been to S.F. many times. Back in 2002/03 I was stayin in the then Metropole Hotel on Turk Nr Mason. This guy John Bravard who was stayin in the Dalt Hotel on Turk comes out & opens up with a .45 cos he's pissed at life. Four innocent souls dead & one injured lying in the street ! Could never shrug that off & will never go back to that place. California dreamin - California Screamin !
San Fransicko is the shoplifting capital of the West coast.
San Francisco looks really nice. Good vlog AK.
Thanku so much it is a great video. I feel i am walking myself there
thank you for the walk and narritives
i'm actually here mainly to see how common it is to spot an obese people on street but i dont think i see a lot? deffo not somewhere near 1/3 as statistics tend to show?
Love the fact you are talking and creating some narrative.
Cool!😎😎😎
Reminds me of NYC !!! That block with the homeless people that was it. Everything else looked normal.
You should see Kensington in Philadelphia
I have not been to that city in more than two years, and I do not miss it. Stuff went downhill there during the late 2010s.
Hello, your video is very impressive, I come from a Vietnamese village
Never an emptier downtown and a radically departure from 2019 (Peak year)
I was there in 2019, and it was obvious even then that the City was unsustainable and destined to die.
Looks better than where I live Birmingham UK.
The trams are so cute
Thanks for posting this.
I was there for the final four and did not feel safe at all.... I won't be back
Thank you for the details
I lived in San Francisco in the late 80’s and 90’s. It was wonderful but seems so empty now.
It's EMBARCADERO wich means pier in spanish.
Thank you for the tour. S.F. is great if you have money. I "enjoyed" growing up there as the neighborhoods were friendly. We need to find a new definition of "great city"(it may not include downtowns). Loved your walk.😊😊😊
You're viewing of the Tenderloin is EXTREMELY deceiving. You hit the outskirts where it's not bad. Go to the inner Tenderloin at 5pm and that will give you a sense of what the Tenderloin really is.
Correction: Market Street ends at the Ferry Building.
Market St goes to The Embarcadero on the waterfront but it doesn’t go to Fisherman’s Wharf
You can't see everything in the video. But if you look closely, you can see the streets are more filthy than you might think from a distance. Also, the bus stops and graffiti that is etched in the glass or plastic. That said, I would agree that it doesn't look as bad as portrayed in the media. But there is a reason why Nordstroms and a bunch of other businesses are leaving. SF even warned people of the massive car break-ins that they are experiencing. The truth is in the middle.
Psycho Fox News bashes San Franciso just like they did a 24/7 hack job on Dominion and Smartmatic.
@DF Well said.
when I lived in San Fran in the 1990s all the car windows along the park were broken into ... this is historic and with RUclips and cameras the crimes are captured and treated as something new...
@df1003 So why don't you make a video instead of complaining?
I remember years ago walk in union Square and see so many people shopping at the nike and Macy shops. It looks like a ghost city now compared to those years. The homeless issue and crime issues must be impacting the city.
Yeah, I used to go about once a month, for about 5 years (on business and family trips). The last time I was there was 2018. Union Square was packed. There were like 10x as many people as in this video. But, in 2018, it was already starting to turn. SO many homeless, so many people shooting up in public (it was an interesting conversation with my 5 and 7 year old daughters). Sadly, it sounds/looks like it's gotten way worse. It's sad, because it's one of the greatest cities in the world.... If this was a Sunday morning, I can see it being this empty, but he said it was early afternoon on a Monday.
WHY NOT SHOW ACROSS THE STREET WHERE ALL THA HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ARE?
No robbery or murder? wow.
wait till sun goes down
@@tehmujin5330 ....you haven't seen the latest utube vids?...they now pull up beside your car, get out with guns, steal all, - then off within seconds,......which is why I will not go thru SF without my loaded 9 mm.
WHEN YOU VOTE BLUE !
You didn’t go in the heart of the TL.
Nor should he. Everyone knows not to go there. Why would anyone purposefully go to a bad neighborhood while visiting a city?
My advice is that; While you're waiting for the green light on the crosswalk turn the camera around. It'll be more interesting. big thanks for your great content.
Lol, you gave actual Tenderloin a wide berth
So, so glad you decided stay safe and skirted the eastern edge of The Tenderloin and not venturing west of Taylor Street or proceeding down Taylor to Market Street. We may not have been treated to your excellent video otherwise.
Truth spoken he did not go to deep in to the tenderloin but during the day he probably would not have been trubble.
Next time when you planning to go back in SF can visit the places where princess diares shoots their taping.
very enjoyable, i notice there were'nt many people out on that day, is this normal or is there something going on like a public day off from work?
No, this is about normal. He's walking through the business district and that is pretty empty during the weekend and outside of the 9-5. You have to venture into "the neighborhoods" which are like cute little "Main streets" scattered throughout the city to see the people. They're usually very cutesy and very different, each has it's own vibe.
Great..
If the city leaders were out to scare off all the tourists, they succeeded.
Nope...over 20 million tourists will visit SF this year
Macy's is closing, too.
1:32 starting there is it not all the shops been either closes or on lease?
I am going back to San Francisco soon although How good you try to hide all the homeless and crimes.
i got robbed there
Fox News and the haters will not like this video.
Not as bad as the media told me actually, Except for the living cost.
All the footage you see of San Francisco trying to make it look bad is mainly tenderloin. Thats like if I walked in the bronx in NYC and claimed thats what all the other boroughs were like.
One thing you notice about San Francisco it’s a pretty city but it’s dying. There’s not very many people there anymore and it’s a beautiful day. There’s too much crime and drug addiction, and San Francisco. It is causing businesses and residents to leave even though it is a beautiful city.
Dude ease off the propaganda crack pipe. We can literally see from the video that you're lying. Come on!
Can you throw on a map from time to time so I can get my bearings?
I'm thinking of doing a trip to SF in the next 6-12 months, and the city looks pretty good for the most part from your videos. A few small pockets of shitty areas, but looks good overall. I'm beginning to think SF isn't as bad as the news media makes it out to be?! SF looks like every other big city, shitty areas and good areas.
Tourists are back in droves in SF, we are expected to see over 20 million visitors this year, just stay out of the Tenderloin and you will have a good time
I was just there at end of September 2023. I was expecting the city to be horribly dangerous and was totally surprised. I walked at night all the way from Oracle Stadium through downtown to Fisherman’s Wharf, and another night from the Wharf area to union square. I felt totally safe and didn’t really see any signs of problems. I had a great time exploring the city. I didn’t wander through the tenderloin area but all the other parts I was at seemed fine. I was shocked how different it was than what I expected, I can’t wait to go back again.
I haven't been to S.F. in 5 years and it looks like a shell of what it used to be. Your video was taken around noon, but I remember when the streets were packed with people at that time.
i used to live san francisco for thirty years working as merchant mariner after retiring my first job become a shuttle bus driver for amtrak running san francisco to oakland vice versa...san francisco used to be a beautiful city lawlessness destroy the city...
Sorry to break it to you, but San Francisco is in no way destroyed. The city is stunning, beautiful and unique. It’s the Democrats that are responsible for cleaning up the areas that used to be overrun with homeless. West Coast cities have been inundated with homeless people coming from eastern states to escape the frigid winters and the sweltering summers, It is the Democratic leaders that are finding solutions to deal with the nations problems around homelessness. They are getting the laws changed to allow the city to finally begin to tackle this problem. I couldn’t be more proud to be Democrat.
plz also mention the time and weather at the time of recording