Named after Lombard Street in Philadelphia by San Francisco surveyor Jasper O'Farrell, Lombard Street is an east-west street in San Francisco, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns, being considered the crookedest street in the world. Its west end is at Presidio Boulevard inside The Presidio; it then heads east through the Cow Hollow neighborhood. For twelve blocks is an arterial road, and continues through the Russian Hill neighborhood and to the Telegraph Hill neighborhood. At Telegraph Hill it turns south, becoming Telegraph Hill Boulevard to Pioneer Park and Coit Tower. Lombard Street starts again at Winthrop Street and ends at The Embarcadero as a collector road.
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