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San Francisco is now one step closer to renaming a street in Golden Gate Park after Claude, the city’s beloved albino alligator who died in December 2025.
Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Recreation and Parks Commission to commemoratively name an as-yet-undecided street in the park, where Claude lived at the California Academy of Sciences, “Claude the Alligator Way.”
“Everybody loves Claude, I mean, seriously. We just had his birthday, or, I’m sorry, his hatch day, this past year, and everyone came out. We had a shrimp-flavored cake,” said District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who sponsored the resolution. “There’s just so much love for Claude out there.”…