What part of san francisco is this?

Question

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Answer 1

Yep, what Marjo said. Just to add, the background is downtown.

Answer 2

there are houses like that all over the city by the zoo all over its nice just driving around looking at the beautiful homes.

Answer 3

This is the Alamo Square. Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California. Both are located in the Western Addition, a part of the city's fifth Supervisorial district, and are served by several Muni bus lines including the 5, 21, 22, and 24.

Alamo Square Park consists of six city blocks at the top of a hill overlooking much of San Francisco, with a number of large and architecturally distinctive mansions along the perimeter.

A row of Victorian houses facing the park on Steiner Street, known as the painted ladies, are often shown in the foreground of panoramic pictures of the city's downtown area.