SF News Driving Down Market Street Might Now Get You a $176 Ticket Surprisingly, it's already been two years since the city started testing out this traffic-calming measure, forcing all private vehicles to make right turns at Tenth and Sixth Streets. It's a complicated thing, and
Arts & Entertainment What You Should Know About Flattening Coins On the F-Market Rail For some bored downtown workerbees, flattening coins on the F-Market track is a shiny way to pass the time. Take, for example, Matthew Knudsen, who pressed these beauties just the other day. SFist
SF News Good Samaritans Stabbed Coming to Woman's Aid Two good Samaritans were stabbed a little before 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the city's Mid-Market area after coming to the defense of a woman. "The suspect, a man in his 50s,
SF News Mid-Market Hit and Run Kills Man On Saturday night, a 51-year-old man was found lying in the street near Eighth and Market after an apparent hit-and-run incident. The man was struck a little before 9:30 p.m. The
SF News Afternoon Palate Filler: Homeless Drunk Boys YouTube user Photorikki captured several recessionistas living it up near former Supervisor Chris Daly's new bar, Buck's Tavern, on Stevenson Street. (This was shot before Daly took over, by the way.) In the
misc Blast from the Past: Elephants on Market Street Market Street hasn't quite been the zoo it used to be ever since they started limiting traffic to bikes, buses and cabs last year, but this photo included in the monthly newsletter for
SF News Signs of Impending Apocalypse: Whole Foods Finally Approved for Market Street After three years of meetings and discussion the Planning Commission has unanimously decided to move forward on construction of a Whole Foods location on Market Street at Dolores. Per the Examiner, the corner
SF News Protesters Block Market at Castro Matt Baume of Stop8.org, live from an ENDA protest in progress in the Castro, reports, "GetEqual in Castro, protesting Pelosi's ENDA inaction. About to block traffic." That was 40 minutes ago. And
SF News Mid-Market Building Owners Still Holding Out for Big Pay Days, But Arts District Moves Forward The stretch of mid-Market between 5th and 8th remains a pretty major blight for San Francisco, due in large part to the vacant and boarded up storefronts at the street level creating what
SF News Market Street Railroad Marks 150th Anniversary While most of America spent yesterday BBQ-ing, blowing stuff up and avoiding DUI checkpoints all in the name of freedom, our very own Market Street Railway silently celebrated its 150th anniversary. That's 84
misc Gremlins' Gizmo Visits Central Market Corridor SFist reader (and Editorial Director of Frommers.com) David Lytle snapped these pics of Gizmo (the lovable, hungry-after-dark star of Gremlins) dotting a boarded building along the Central Market Corridor. Lytle explains: A
misc What's Going On Here, Sleepyheads? Muni bus stop on mid-Market this afternoon. Photo by Gregory Gaston.
SF News Newsom Wants to Remove Cars, Muni from Market Street Though not a new idea, its sanity level, or lack thereof, remains the same: permanently removing vehicles and Muni lines from Market Street. This is the latest idea tinkering around inside Newsom's sleek
SF News Abuse of the Mid-Market Street Corridor To Continue Unabated by Chris Jones Today is the first day of the City's ambitious six week experiment to revive the Mid-Market Street corridor by removing eastbound automobile traffic from the City's main drag. City officials
SF News Christmas Comes Early to SF While friend of SFist Eye On Blog's Britteny Gilbert is none too thrilled to see these LED snowflakes -- presumably meant to signify winter, which signifies the holiday season, which, come now, signifies
SF News Muni Crash Update Yesterday's crash, that is. SFMTA director Nathaniel Ford expressed deep sadness and frustration over yesterday's F-Market Muni crash, which injured 6 people and follows July's Muni train crash in West Portal, saying in
SF News F-Line Muni Streetcars and Vehicle Collide According to SFGate, "Two of San Francisco's historic F-line streetcars and a car have crashed, injuring an unknown number of people and causing Muni to suspend train service at the height of the
SF News Fire / Explosion Near Ross Store on Market Street Oh yikes, folks. According to our increasingly favorite Twitter account to follow, Emergency_In_SF, they've got word (via timmysanfran) that there's a fire, possibly caused by an explosion, at Market (near Fourth
misc ALL OF THEM: Market And Van Ness ALL OF THEM: Market & Van Ness -- mattymatt, "Sarah Palin Engages in Perverse Journalistic Orgy of Excess" How could we forget such a violently vapid comment? We can't. We shan't. So let's
misc Today in San Francisco History - "A Hoodlum Raid" Timecapsule: October 20, 1880 Sometimes we like to let the past speak in its own words, and even better, on subjects that never show up in history books. Here's an item from an
SF News Carless Sunday to be Carless Market Street? Also, as you all know, driving down Market Street is kinda impossible, so why not? Lining up against the idea, natch, are merchants along Market Street who fear that the closure's will hurt
SF News Muni Bus Strikes, Kills Woman at Sixth and Market Streets Early this morning at 8:24 a.m., an "adult female" was struck a 60-foot 71-Haight-Noriega bus on Market and Sixth Streets. She was transported to SF General Hospital, where she later died.
