Kearny Street

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Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs from Market Street on the south to The Embarcadero on the north. Along its southern end, the street serves as the border separating the Financial District from the city's Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over the top of Telegraph Hill.

Kearny Street was named for Stephen W. Kearny.[1] Landmarks along Kearny Street include Lotta's Fountain at Market Street, where 1906 Earthquake commemorations are held; the Bank of America Center, the city's second tallest skyscraper; the location of the old Hall of Justice at Kearny and Clay Streets now occupied by the Holiday Inn; the eastern border of Portsmouth Square, the original Plaza of the pueblo of Yerba Buena; and Coit Tower, at the top of Telegraph Hill.

At Kearny and Clay, the first cable car in America, invented by Andrew S. Hallidie, on August 2, 1873, climbed five blocks up the Clay Street hill.

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• O'Brien, Robert, This is San Francisco. 1948. 1994 Chronicle Books ISBN 0-8118-0578-6