This neighborhood was a stomping ground for the intellectuals, writers, artists and architects like Mark Twain, Jack London and Frank Norris.  Quiet streets offer several great vantage points with Lombard’s “the crookedest street in the world” being the most famous and the Hyde Street hill with its Cable Cars.  This hill has an assortment of apartments, cooperatives, condos, single family homes and 19th century Italianate residences surrounded by several parks, good restaurants on Polk and Hyde Streets. (Source: BoxMLS)