SF News Two Deaths In SF Streets Reported an Hour Apart In SoMa, Excelsior A pedestrian was fatally struck by a driver in San Francisco's South of Market District Wednesday, and another person was found dead in the street in the Excelsior less than an hour later.
SF News Saturday Links: Human Skull Found Near Monterey Leads to Discovery of Additional Remains Yet another power outage hit about 3,400 residences in SF’s Richmond District and Seacliff Friday; 12 people were injured in a two-car crash near SF’s Balboa Park; and a land surveyor found a skull off Highway 1 near Monterey this week.
SF News 117-Year-Old Central Drug Store, Oldest Store in the Excelsior, Closing Permanently in July It’s the end of a very long era, after Central Drug Store has spent 117 years at its current Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue location, it will close permanently on July 15 as owner Jerry Tonelli is heading toward a well-deserved retirement.
Arts & Entertainment SF Street Jerry Garcia Grew Up On Will Be Renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ The Excelsior District street that was the 1940s boyhood home of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia just got City Hall approval to be renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street.’ It’s currently called Harrington Street, but new signage will shakedown this street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halfway Club Opens Today in Crocker-Amazon’s Former Broken Record Space The former Broken Record bar at Geneva Avenue and Edinburgh Street will be officially reborn as the Halfway Club when it opens Wednesday night, with a kitchen, full bar, and a “70’s dad’s basement bar” vibe.
SF News 1906-Era Earthquake Cottage Sells For $535K, Becomes SF's Cheapest Single Family Home A 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom one-bath cottage in the Excelsior District just sold on Friday for the bargain price of $535,000. And at that price, it is possibly the least expensive free-standing single-family dwelling to sell in SF in recent years.
SF News Five Displaced In Early Morning San Francisco Fire Five residents of an Excelsior building escaped injury this morning, after a two alarm fire consumed their home. According to tweets from the San Francisco Fire Department, the blaze broke out at 12:
SF News Teenager Charged With Attempted Murder In Excelsior School Shooting As Officials Debate Response The shooting of four high-school students outside the Excelsior's June Jordan School for Equity on October 18 shocked students and faculty alike. An arrest of two individuals believed to be
SF News Deal Announced To Build First New Rent-Controlled Units In Decades For the first time in over 20 years, San Francisco may get new rent-controlled housing. And not new in the sense that the units in question are being built to replace the
SF News Arrests Made In Connection To Tuesday's School Shooting Police have arrested two individuals they say are connected to Tuesday's school shooting that left four students injured, one critically. ABC 7 reports that one of the suspects was apprehended the
SF News 4 Students Shot, 1 Critically Outside June Jordan High School In The Excelsior A girl and three boys were injured, the girl critically, by gunfire this afternoon in the parking lot of June Jordan School for Equity, a small high school of just 250 students in
Arts & Entertainment THE HORROR: Nonprofit Wants To Rename Jerry Garcia Amphitheater In what might be a perfect storm of San Francisco headbutting: Deadheads and neighborhood groups are ready to square off against a non-profit organization and the Rec and Parks Department over the
