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By Heather Knight - Sept. 28, 2023 - NY Times
I’ve written a lot about the city’s many crises. But there’s so much more to this place that I’ve called home for 24 years.
By Heather Knight
Many San Franciscans know the feeling, that moment when it hits you: “I live here, and I’m lucky.”
I had one of those moments the other night at an outdoor dance class in Dolores Park. The class, “Roryography,” led by the choreographer Rory Davis, used to take place in a traditional dance studio but moved to the park during the coronavirus pandemic. It has stayed there ever since.
As we danced to “Jump” by the Pointer Sisters, guys playing basketball joined in. So did families with little kids. A colorful streetcar rumbled past as the setting sun cast a golden glow on the clouds in front of Sutro Tower.
As a longtime reporter and columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, I wrote a lot about the city’s crises: fentanyl overdoses, homelessness, property crime, a hollowed-out downtown and exorbitant housing costs that have squeezed out the middle class. But I also wrote and recorded podcasts about the city’s beauty, parks, hikes, independent bookstores and movie houses, and incredibly creative people.
Now, as the new San Francisco bureau chief for The New York Times, I plan to continue shining a light on both sides of the city — the good and the bad. I’m excited to bring the full picture of San Francisco to a national audience and, hopefully, cover the beginnings of a recovery for the city I’ve called home for 24 years.
Introducing The Times’s New San Francisco Bureau Chief
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