Sketchy Sixth & Market Intersection Dubbed "Comfort Corner"

Bad name - reminds one of the WWII Japanese slave "comfort women".

"Crusty Corner" didn't have quite the je ne sais quoi the marketing team was looking for

It's laughable, the thought that this part of San Francisco will ever "turn the corner," without a total change in the way that The City confronts the people who reside there. What, did we think that Dottie's and Pearl's would open up on Sixth and all of the people who spend their days and nights there would suddenly up-and-move to Fresno? If Sixth Street suddenly turns into Hayes Street, then the people who make Sixth Street such a horror will just be someplace else in San Francisco,cashing SSI checks once a month, enjoying government-paid-for housing, and using their bodies as end-use processing facilities for crack, malt liquor, cigarettes and cheap vodka.

There's an endemic culture of drug and alcohol abuse that's enabled by about thirty factors; everything ranging from scumbag real estate barons who love the guarantee of public money in the form of section 8 checks, to business owners who rely on a steady market of booze and cigarettes (and the drug trade), to the flow of state money into the hands of a welfare-culture passed from generation to generation, to an imprisoned population of addicts, to a sadly misguided progressive constituency who falsely believes that any effort to impose structure into the lives of people who have temporarily (or chronically) lost the ability to manage their own lives is a cruel and illegal robbery of their civil rights and personal dignity.

As long as working San Franciscans fail to impose legislation that takes a hard stance on public drug use, drinking and urination/defecation among that part of the population that isn't paying its own way, Sixth Street (or wherever we subsequently shift this critical mass of poverty and abuse) is going to remain a Very Special Part of San Francisco.

 don't forget Chris Daly the poverty pimp! he kept the disabled disabled~

I'd vote for you!

The people who are responsible for this are the landlords that run the SRO's who are mostly the Patels and Randy Shaw of Tenderloin Housing Clinic. They are literally responsible for this. If you really want to clean up the area, go after them. They have in other cities including Oakland that started with Molly Wetzel back in 1989 and continues to this day

http://www.nctimes.com/news/lo...

Word.

 Yes, this looks comfortable:

 Ah, yes - the Human Burrito.

 I thought that was spongebob.

SPONGE BOB!!!

 Please, god, let there be pants... square or otherwise! :P

The next big Mid Market change will be the opening of the CVS at 7th and Market (and the necessary closing of the 24 hour check cashing storefront currently in that spot.)

Now if the Seneca Drug Emporium & Hotel would mysteriously burn down, all of San Francisco would benefit.

piratesnack nailed it. You can NOPA up the neighborhood name all you want, but that block is never ever going to be gentrified. 

So referring to it as the intersection of "Eight Ball" and "Smack" is now gauche.
/makes note

How will it ever be turned around when the entire block is made of SROs that cannot be converted?  These restaurants are great, but the idea that they are going to make the street a safe or pleasant place for most people is laughable so long as the entire block consists of SROs.

 You have Chris Daly to thank for that.

neighborhood will never change until the sro's are gone or converted to something else

 We don't necessarily want the gone. We want them placed in every neighborhood to "share the wealth" or burden on society. all in one place does not help the disenfranchised assimilate in a "normal" neighborhood. they are targets for drug dealers and abuse if all crammed in the same space. but, heaven forbid pac heights or the marina allow an SRO in their neighborhood!