SF News Three Arrests Made Chinatown Attack of 70-Year-Old Woman, One Suspect Is Only 11 Years Old Four suspects have been identified and three were arrested in last month’s group attack on a 70-year-old woman in Chinatown, but it certainly complicates their prosecution that the suspects are ages 18, 14, 13, and... 11.
SF News Rec and Parks Gets Ripped Off for $4.5 Million In Cost Overruns on Portsmouth Square Parking Garage An alphabet soup of transit authorities and nonprofit organizations was responsible for a Chinatown parking garage renovation that was completed four years late and went $4.5 million over budget, but a city auditor blames lax Rec and Parks Department oversight.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Booed Rather Roundly, Followed By Handful of Hecklers at Lunar New Year Parade Combine a controversial district attorney with a parade being held in a neighborhood where he is not terribly popular, and you get Chesa Boudin getting booed along Saturday's Lunar New Year Parade route.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Tiger Floats of the 2022 SF Lunar New Year Festival and Parade There are 14 floats ready to pounce for Saturday’s 2022 SF Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. Here’s a sneak preview of this year’s finest Year of the Tiger floats, and ‘They're Grrrreat!’
SF News Hunter Pence Joins Volunteer Group Cleaning Up Trash in North Beach and Chinatown Four-time all-star and two-time world champ Hunter Pence came out of right field to help with a community trash pick, for a group that does this three or four times a week.
SF News Chinatown Jeweler Vandalized, Then Robbed Of $250,000 In Jewels The same jewelry store in Chinatown was hit twice by criminals in four days — first on Saturday, when suspects smashed a front window (perhaps in a first burglary attempt), and then on Tuesday, when thieves succeeded in grabbing $250,000 in merchandise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown's Z&Y Restaurant Is Latest to Be Dinged for Wage Theft Z&Y Restaurant, one of the better known and acclaimed Chinese restaurants in San Francisco, is the latest local restaurant to have to settle a wage-theft case brought by immigrant employees — this time to the tune of $1.6 million.
Arts & Entertainment SF Chinatown Has a Long and Lawless History In the Illegal Fireworks Trade We are deep in fireworks season right now all over the Bay Area, as every owner of a skittish dog is well aware. But did you know that for decades, people flocked to SF's Chinatown to buy caches of illegal fireworks and law enforcement mostly turned a blind eye?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress by Boon to Debut Next Week In the Storied Empress of China Space In SF's Chinatown The long-awaited new arrival in the Empress of China space in San Francisco's Chinatown is finally opening, just in time for mask rules and capacity restrictions to be lifted statewide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 100-Year-Old Chinatown Spot With Curtained Booths, Far East Cafe, In Danger of Closing We're sad to learn that one of the longest-lived and largest banquet restaurants in the neighborhood, Far East Cafe, is giving up the ghost after 100 years in business.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested In Chinatown Strong-Arm Robbery Last Summer A third suspect has been arrested in a violent street assault and robbery that happened last July, which sent two men from Chinatown to the hospital.
SF News Facebook Announces Funding for Ad Outreach to Help SF's Struggling Chinatown Businesses According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From San Francisco's 162nd Chinese New Year Parade Thousands convened at Market and 2nd Streets Saturday where the SF festivities began to celebrate the Year of the Rat — hissing firecrackers, lanky dragons, chromatic fashions, and all — in the largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia.
SF News Elderly Chinatown Residents Targeted For Red Envelopes During Lunar New Year During Lunar New Year celebrations this week, law enforcement is going on high alert in both San Francisco's and Oakland's Chinatown to deter thieves from targeting a longstanding gift tradition.
SF News Suspects Sought In Violent Weekend Robberies In Chinatown A pair of violent incidents in Chinatown are being investigated as potentially linked after four suspects in a dark-colored SUV assaulted three elderly men in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square on Saturday, following a violent robbery involving a similar vehicle the night before.
SF News Arrest Made In July Assault On Two Elderly People In Chinatown One of three suspects believed responsible for an assault and robbery that left two elderly members of the Chinatown community injured has been arrested, according to the SFPD.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Empress of China Space in Chinatown To Be Revived As Empress By Boon A former chef at upscale Chinese spot Hakkasan is slated to open a new upscale venture in the iconic Empress of China space on the sixth floor of 838 Grant Avenue, which has sat empty for five years.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
SF News Hilariously Bad Chinese Translation On City Survey Calls Tenderloin 'A Beef Filet' Thanks to some unskilled translators, a recent outreach effort by the city in Chinatown did not go over smoothly.
SF News S.F.’s Last Handmade Fortune Cookie Company Faces Possible Closure Chinatown’s 57-year-old Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory is believed to be the last remaining handmade fortune cookie manufacturer in the U.S.
