![]() Asians now hold majority status in the once predominantly-African American enclave. ![]() Partly due to fairly recent waves of gentrification in the past decade, Oceanview is more ethnically and economically diverse than San Francisco as a whole. The creek widened between Niagara and Geneva Avenues to form what was known as Lake Geneva. Its channel was what is now Cayuga Avenue and joined the other branch under the Mission Street viaduct. The other source is about where Cayuga Avenue and Regent Street intersect. The creek coursed through this canyon and by Glen Park and then through what is now Bosworth Street until it reached the bottom, over which Mission Street viaduct is built. Lake view refers not to Lake Merced, but the former Lake Geneva. In the early 2000s, lower real estate prices relative to the rest of the city brought in a new influx of Asians, Latinos, and Caucasians, making Oceanview one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco.Īt one point in time there was a lake on Geneva Ave, down the slope from the eastern side of Oceanview. Until the mid-1990s, African Americans accounted for over 50 percent of the neighborhood's residents. During redevelopment in the Western Addition/Fillmore neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, more African-American families moved to the neighborhood from the Western Addition and Bayview neighborhoods. ![]() Post World War II the Ocean View was one of the few places in San Francisco where African-American families could buy property. Oceanview was originally an Italian-Irish-German neighborhood in the mid- to late nineteenth century the location acted as a station for train service between San Francisco and San Jose, owned by San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, bought by Southern Pacific in 1868. Oceanview, also referred to as "Lakeview" by some natives of the community, has a rich history.
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