Crocker-Amazon, San Francisco, California
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The Crocker-Amazon is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California bordering the Excelsior District. Crocker-Amazon covers the area south of Mission Street and Geneva Avenue, extending towards Daly City. The neighborhood is adjacent to Crocker-Amazon Park, named after the Charles Crocker land holdings that once made up the area, and Amazon Street in the Excelsior. The streets of this neighborhood straddle the border between San Francisco and Daly City, hence the Crocker-Amazon largely blends in with the adjacent Daly City neighborhoods of Crocker, Southern Hills, and Bayshore. The Cow Palace, straddling the San Francisco/Daly City border, is partially within the Crocker-Amazon.
The Crocker-Amazon neighborhood is slightly more affluent than the Excelsior, but retains much of the same racial diversity, including a large Filipino community. Even many San Franciscans are unaware of its existence, leading to more reasonable house prices than in other, more well-known areas of San Francisco. There is a certain suburban feel to this commuter neighborhood, although the houses are as tightly packed together as those in other areas of San Francisco. The neighborhood benefits from some of the best weather in the city; the late afternoon fog breaks over the Excelsior, meaning the Crocker-Amazon area has more sun than most other areas of San Francisco. There are outstanding views towards the top of the neighborhood; downtown San Francisco can be seen in the gap between McLaren Park and Twin Peaks (San Francisco).
