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Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin!

In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!

Maybe We Won't Be Getting a Dept. of Sanitation and Streets After All, With New Amendments Headed for Ballot

Several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who just two years ago were fully behind the creation of a separate Department of Sanitation and Streets that would not live under the aegis of the Department of Public Works, aren't so much now.

FBI Probing Whether City Hall Power Couple Directed Contracts to the Person Who Sold Them Their House

The widening Mohammed Nuru DPW investigation is now looking into why the City Administrator and SFPUC General Manager directed $8 million in contracts to the woman who sold them their house.

Sup. Haney’s Bid to Break Up Public Works Likely Headed for November Ballot

A new department would have one job — keeping our haggard sidewalks clean — under Supervisor Matt Haney’s proposal to break up the scandal-plagued Department of Public Works.

Nuru Doled Out More Than $10 Million in City Contracts With Zero Oversight, Says City Controller

The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”

Day Around the Bay: Bernal Rock's 'Black Lives Matter' Message Painted Over By Public Works

A South Bay man has been charged with COVID-related stock manipulation, SF officials just announced a financial relief package for fishermen impacted by the Pier 45 fire, and artists are repainting 'Black Lives Matter' on Bernal Hill Rock for the sixth time after DPW effed up.

Supervisor Haney Wants To Break Up Public Works, Create New Agency That Just Cleans Streets

As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.

Scandal-Embroiled DPW Head Still Not Fired, Possibly Still Eligible for Pension

The City Hall director accused of multiple bribery and fraud charges has not yet been officially disciplined, but Supervisor Matt Haney got a nasty letter for publicly saying that Mohammed Nuru should be disciplined.

Low-Budget Version of Clinton Park Rocks Roils Ingleside, Wall Gets Removed

A plywood wall blocking a pedestrian walkway in Ingleside hs been taken down for now, but exasperated neighbors vow to replace it with a gate or some other manner of barrier.

Do 'No Parking' Signs For Street Cleaning Still Apply After The Street Cleaner Is Gone?

There's a parking miscalculation every San Franciscan with a vehicle eventually makes: leaving your car in a street cleaning zone during the day and hours street sweepers approach. But every thorn has its

DPW Finds Discarded Needles Have Tripled On SF Streets, Stanley Roberts Gets In On The Shaming

As you may know, San Francisco also performs a ‘homeless census’ every two years, called the "point in time count" to tally unhoused residents, and now we find via ABC 7 that the

SoMa Sinkhole Consumes Construction Truck, Snarls Friday Morning Commute

Sinkhole on 7th b/w Brannon and Townsend. #ABC7now pic.twitter.com/OirIZmxgVs— Jenny Cain (@jennymcain) May 5, 2017 Morning rush hour traffic near the SoMa intersection of Seventh and Townsend Streets was

Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups

Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run

Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment

In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning

Nude Trump Statue Removed, May Get New Home At Lefty O'Doul's

The naked likeness of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump surreptitiously installed yesterday in the Castro has found an unlikely champion: Anti-nudity Supervisor Scott Wiener. Wiener, who is known for his successful 2012 campaign

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Adorable 67-Year-Old DPW Worker Suu Ngo Talks About Supporting Grandkids, Loving Her Work

As part of their video series "The Regulars," the Chron's videographer Erin Brethauer made this fantastic portrait of 67-year-old Sunset district street cleaner Suu Ngo, who immigrated here from Vietnam in 1985 as

SF To Pay $3.25 Million To Family Of Elderly Cyclist Crushed By Muni Bus

It was 8:40 a.m. on Friday October 18, 2013, when 78-year-old cyclist Cheng Jin Lai was crushed by a 27-Bryant Muni bus as it turned from 11th Street onto Bryant Street.

Bronze Disc Marking SF's Geographic Center Immediately Stolen

A photo posted by @peternocturnal on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:13pm PDT "The center could not hold," the above Instagrammer captions this shot perhaps channelling Yeats by way of Didion but I

City Surveyors Mark Actual Geographic Center Of SF, Sort Of

In recent days, because apparently they don't have enough to do, the city's Department of Public Works installed a small brass disc marker on a sidewalk on Corbett Avenue, the 700 block, on

4/20's Enormous Mess, By The Numbers

@lrbrinkley pic.twitter.com/swPUF9x9m0— P@nd!zzy (@panda4good4ever) April 21, 2016 Two days after San Francisco's massive 4/20 celebration of everything cannabis and the mess, officials say, is finally cleaned up.

Giant Sinkhole Opens Gaping Maw In Pacific Heights

A street in Pacific Heights remains closed Friday morning, after a 10-foot-deep sinkhole opened in the middle of the road. CBS 5 reports that road crews were filling what they believed to be

Arts & Entertainment

After Almost Two Years Of Complaints, SF's $2,258,300 Skate Park Remains Full Of 'Festering' Puddles Of Urine

Since its opening in July of 2014, San Francisco's SoMa West Skatepark has gotten mixed reviews: While skaters seem to love the place, neighbors have complained about noise and graffiti, and both area

Pier 80 Shelter Fills Up As Tent City Sweeps Continue

Even staff at the historic worker-owned Rainbow Grocery have had enough. Located at 13th and Folsom near "Tent City," a sprawling homeless encampment, members of the co-op have seen worsening conditions and are

City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours

Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies within 72

Report Cites Fewer Needles On Sidwalks, But Complaints About Them Rise Anyway

A report evaluating 184 routes through San Francisco between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 shared with the Examiner shows more streets free from debris and detritus "which pose the greatest risk