Third Street (San Francisco)

Third Street seen from its Northern End at Market Street, with the San Francisco Bay in the far background

Third Street is a north-south street in San Francisco, California, running through the Downtown, Mission Bay, Potrero Point, Dogpatch, and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods. The road turns into Kearny Street north of Market Street and connects into Bayshore Boulevard south of Meade Avenue. It was formerly called Kentucky Street in the Dogpatch and Railroad Avenue in the Bayview.

Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants play at Oracle Park on the intersection Third and King.

The majority of the street is served by the T Third Street light rail line. It was the first new light rail line in San Francisco in more than half a century, and the first fully accessible line in the system. It is also the first true light rail line in the mostly streetcar Muni Metro system, as it operates primarily in the median.

In 2009, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed Third Street be renamed for former mayor Willie Brown.

In the 1960s, Third Street was known as San Francisco's "skid row", with most of its (then much smaller) homeless population concentrating there.

The street has featured as a filming location in numerous films, perhaps the most notable scene being in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) where Bond escaped from police wrongly suspecting him of murder in a fire engine driven by Stacey Sutton and cut himself off from pursuing patrol cars by jumping over the rising Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge.