Artist Ross Holzman peels back tape from a mosaic-covered pillar as installation nears completion.
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This once-overlooked San Francisco bridge is now the city’s first tiled crossing
By Jessie Fisher,
Social Media Producer
May 6, 2026
The crossing at Bosworth Street and Lippard Avenue in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood was, for years, a piece of infrastructure unworthy of note. Graffiti ran under the railing, weeds pushed up around the base and worn-out concrete held water stains at the seams. It took about a hundred hands to cut back the overgrowth and wash the structure to gray.
Now it marks a first for the city — a tiled bridge.
Set against a fresh coat of bright blue, its five pillars, 400 square feet in all, are covered in mosaics, with soft semicircles beneath yellow stars and orange-rimmed diamonds tucked under thin parallel lines.
San Francisco has a history of working on its stairs in this way — treating them as surfaces that can hold more than function. There are now north of 900 stairways across the city, and about a dozen of them are tiled sets. On California Street in Lincoln Park and 16th Avenue in Golden Gate Heights, to name a few, color and pattern have long rewarded the slow climb. As of this week, the Bosworth Pedestrian Bridge extends that logic sideways, onto a structure that doesn’t require the same exertion to traverse.
