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Sad news. The Tenderloin Y will officially shut its doors today, just short of its 100-year anniversary. "The eight-story, 150,000-square-foot building at the corner of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue," which "opened in 1910 to replace San Francisco’s original YMCA center, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake," according to the Examiner, was purchased by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. a couple of years ago for $12.2 million. The Ex goes on to say, "The Department of Public Health and the Mayor’s Office of Housing are providing funds to turn the building into affordable housing units for homeless and low-income residents." Another YMCA will, hopefully, "open nearby in about two years."
Really, this is sad news. IWe learned how to play racquetball at this very gym.
Any Tenderloin Y members care to share their stories? Let us know in the comments.
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It is sad news. But do you think it's sad that the YMCA is leaving or this old building is leaving?
What's sad for me is the quote:"The Department of Public Health and the Mayor’s Office of Housing are providing funds to turn the building into affordable housing units for homeless and low-income residents."
More money spent on homeless in SF! Now it's over $190 Million/year from SF alone!
Yet Muni sevice will be cut and fares raised tomorrow.
But the homeless people add so much culture and tax revenue to this fair city... :)
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Actually, the Y already served a good few homeless folks. It doesn't turn anyone away for lack of funding. I was part of the triathlon club there for a few years and also led a spin class at 5:45am for a while. A homeless dude named Stanley would straggle in sometimes and hang for spin class. He wouldn't really follow along too much, but he was there and doing his thing. It was cool.
I also loved the sweet little old ladies who would hang out naked in the pool's locker room and yell at each other in Russian.
I used to live a block from that Y, and went there a few times a week. About once a week i would see a wingnut across the street on leavenworth looking up to the third story window, a bottle of Royal Gate vodka in one hand and his crotch in the other. Behind the window of course, was a women's aerobics class.