SF Politics San Francisco Officially Acquires Real Estate to Make 'Monster In the Mission' Project 100% Affordable Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Blind Cat Bar on 24th Street Gets New Life as Ruth's at Treat Street Two years into the pandemic, there are signs that SF's always thriving bar scene is bouncing back to life, even in some of the dustier corners where things went quiet in Spring 2020.
SF News Arrest Made In Last Week's Fatal Stabbing on Potrero Avenue A suspect has been arrested in connection with last Monday's fatal stabbing on Potrero Avenue that took the life of a 27-year-old man.
SF News Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.
SF News Fire Hits Taqueria Los Coyotes Building in the Mission, Displaces 22 People A fire tore through the three-story 16th Street building that is home to Taqueria Los Coyotes just after midnight Wednesday night, injuring at least two people and displacing 22 residents.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News Potrero Avenue Shooting Victim Identified as Father of Three Who Helped U.S. Army in Afghanistan A November armed robbery took the life of a man now identified as Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, the sole provider for three young children, who’d assisted the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club's 18th Street Pop-Up Becomes Good Good Culture Club; Liholiho Returns to Sutter Street in 2022 The menu at Liholiho Yacht Club in its 18th Street "pop-up" iteration has evolved and changed a bit since the original Liholiho in the TenderNob, and it's evolving some more and morphing into a new restaurant as of today, with a new name.
SF News Much-Maligned ‘Monster In the Mission’ Could Be Reanimated as 100% Affordable Housing A controversial mega-development at the former 16th and Mission Burger King site is being re-proposed as all affordable housing, with the new nickname “Marvel of the Mission.”
SF News 28-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Relation to Recent Mission District Shooting On Friday, San Francisco police announced that they detained 28-year-old Samuel Alfaro, who's thought to be connected to a July shooting in the Mission District; Alfaro is currently booked at the San Francisco County Jail on multiple charges.
SF News Skateboarding Brand HUF Missed the Memo That Sidewalk Stencil Ads Are Illegal Here HUF, the skateboarding and apparel brand, just opened a new store on Valencia Street, and they went around the Mission spray-stenciling their logo on neighborhood sidewalks — apparently unaware that SF has a law against this and others have been fined for this.
SF Politics SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery's Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa after months of pushback.
SF News Manny's In the Mission Once Again Tagged With Anti-Jewish Graffiti Manny's, the politically engaged Mission cafe owned by newly named SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel, was tagged over the weekend with graffiti that could be seen as hate speech.
SF News SFPD Offers Reward to Find Man Who Killed a Mission District Homeless Couple In 2016 The San Francisco Police Department has released a suspect sketch and is offering a $75,000 reward for information to help solve a cold case from 2016 in which a homeless couple was shot and killed.
SF News Mission District Shooting Leaves One Man In Critical Condition A Tuesday night shooting in the Mission District has left a 26-year-old man with grave injuries, and the circumstances surrounding it remain unknown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Lived Mission Bar El Rio Has Reopened for Food and To-Go Cocktails It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.
SF News SF Opens Community Vaccination Site at 24th and Capp Streets A second outdoor, walk-up vaccination site has opened in San Francisco, this one, in the Mission District, intended to increase equity of vaccine distribution in one of the hardest-hit communities in the pandemic.
SF News Arrest Finally Made In Year-Old Murder of Mission District Teen Day’von Hann was only 15 when he was shot and killed in July 2019, but a suspect has finally been identified and arrested with the FBI's help.
SF News Free COVID Testing Offered for LatinX Community at 24th Street BART As part of a study and in an outreach effort aimed at the San Francisco community hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, free, fast testing will be offered two days a week at the 24th Street & Mission BART station.
SF News Two Blocks on Valencia Street Go Car-Free This Weekend To Celebrated Success Amid the pandemic, SF's Slow Streets have helped usher in a superb notion: less-congested roads given back to the people is a win-win situation for pedestrians and motorists. Valencia Street's closure this weekend between 16th and 17th, and between 18th and 19th streets is proof of that idea.
SF News Eight-Hour Standoff Between SFPD and Vietnam Vet Ends With Suspect Forcibly Detained Around 11:30 a.m. Friday, SFPD officers responded to call that a man — who would later be identified as Vietnam War veteran James Craft — was brandishing a metal pipe near 18th and San Carlos streets. After a lengthy standoff, SFPD managed to push the suspect against a wall to detain him.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Film Festival CINELOA Moves Online, Ticket Sales Go Toward Supporting Local Nonprofits Pedestaling Latinx short films, CINEOLA's cinematic lineup aims to connect audiences with diverse representations of Latinoamérica on screens (big and small), with funds made through ticket sales benefiting SF institutions like the Roxie Theatre and Artists’ Television Access.
SF News Curbside Retail Begins in SF With Noted Lines at Sex Shops, Bookstores Curbside retail sales and pickup began in SF on Monday. But because of the tight restrictions placed on local retailers by the city, it was met with a muted drum roll and short, sparse lines — for some merchants, if any at all — across the seven-by-seven.
SF News UCSF Finds 2 Percent of Residents and Workers In Mission With Active COVID-19 Infections, Half Show No Symptoms We now have the first data to come out of mass testing of Mission District residents and workers last week, and out of 4,160 people who were tested both for COVID-19 infections and for antibodies, just over 2 percent tested positive for an active infection.
SF News Two Injured in Mission District Shooting Near 14th and Guerrero Streets According to San Francisco police, two men were wounded in a shooting near 14th and Guerrero streets around 8:22 p.m. Friday night, with one of them currently in critical condition and the other recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
