Powell Street

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Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.


Statements (39)
Predicate Object
instanceOf street
thoroughfare
adjacentTo Union Square shopping district
city San Francisco
connects Market Street
Nob Hill area
country United States
hasCommercialActivity hotels
restaurants
retail stores
hasFeature cable car tracks
pedestrian-heavy sidewalks
steep hills
hasLandmark Powell Street BART station vicinity
Powell Street cable car turntable
hasPublicTransit Muni Metro
Muni buses
San Francisco cable car system
intersects Market Street
knownFor San Francisco cable cars
Union Square retail district
shopping
tourism
locatedIn California
San Francisco
United States
namedAfter likely a person with surname Powell (exact namesake uncertain)
neighborhood Nob Hill
Tenderloin vicinity
Union Square
orientation roughly north–south
partOf San Francisco street grid
passesThrough Downtown San Francisco
Union Square
state California
terminusOf Powell–Hyde cable car line
Powell–Mason cable car line
touristAttraction cable car boarding area at Market Street
transportationType road

Referenced by (9)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Union Square (San Francisco)
boundedBy
California Street
crosses
Powell–Hyde line
followsStreet
Nob Hill
hasStreet
Japanese Canadians
historicalCommunity
San Francisco cable car system
notableStreetServed
Powell–Hyde cable car line
runsFrom
Powell Street terminal
street
Powell–Mason line
streetServed

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