{"id":392808,"date":"2026-01-07T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392808\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:37:07","slug":"san-francisco-one-step-closer-to-avenue-accolade-for-albino-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392808\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco One Step Closer to Avenue Accolade for Albino Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly which stretch of road will be renamed has yet to be determined. Local news publication Mission Local recently <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/01\/sf-claude-alligator-street-poll-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released results of a poll<\/a> of which street residents would like to be renamed in honor of Claude. The results were clear, with the majority of the 6,900 respondents choosing Music Concourse Drive, located between John F. Kennedy Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The street runs directly in front of the Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders said they don\u2019t expect this renaming process to be controversial, and it follows the recent renaming of other honorary landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2024, the city moved to rename Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park to Blue Heron Lake. The lake had previously been named after William Stow, a former California Assembly speaker known for anti-immigrant policies, racist views and attempts to push Jewish people out of California.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the process with \u201cClaude the Alligator Way,\u201d the city teamed up with a local publication to run a poll of residents asking what they would want to rename the lake. Blue Heron won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaude was a little bit different. And in the wild, he might not have lived to the age he did at the Academy of Sciences,\u201d Melgar said. \u201cI think that it is a really good lesson for kids about our need for stewardship of the natural world, but also that in San Francisco, we welcome, you know, every oddball who is a little bit different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exactly which stretch of road will be renamed has yet to be determined. Local news publication Mission Local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-392808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}