SF News Parking Vigilante Paints Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs In Richmond District as Daylighting Laws Kick In As the new daylighting laws preventing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk are in effect, SFMTA has not painted all of the necessary curbs red. So some joker went and painted some counterfeit red “no parking” curbs, but got the dimensions completely wrong.
SF News Pedestrian Injured After Being Struck by Car While Waiting for Bus in San Francisco's Richmond District A week after a family of four was tragically killed in a car crash at an SF bus station, another vehicle hit a pedestrian at a stop near Golden Gate Park, prompting calls for better speeding laws.
SF News Thieves Ram Into Outer Richmond Bank of America, Smashing and Stealing ATM In what’s fast becoming a copycat crime across the Bay Area, another ATM theft victimized a Bank of America at Balboa Street and 38th Avenue sometime after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
SF News Arrest Made In Late August Fatal Beating of Richmond Market Convenience Store Clerk Six weeks after Outer Richmond convenience store clerk Yowhannes “John” Tewelde was fatally beaten trying to stop a shoplifter, the SFPD has arrested 21-year-old Hollister resident Santos De La Rosa for the crime.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Tiki Bar Trad’r Sam Has Closed Indefinitely, Ownership Dispute Clearly Afoot The freaky tiki bar Trad’r Sam is by all accounts the oldest continuously operating tiki bar in SF, but it’s currently “closed until further notice,” and court records show a hurricane of a legal battle is underway for control of the establishment.
SF News Long-Shuttered, Dilapidated Eyesore Alexandria Theater Finally Inching Toward Becoming Housing The Richmond District’s long-vacant and decrepit Alexandria Theater could finally find new life as a 76-unit housing development, as the district’s supervisor Connie Chan and the building’s owner are finally on the same page.
SF News Guilty Verdict Comes Down in 2020 Richmond District Murder Recorded on Zoom 79-year-old Yu Quin Sun was murdered in her home in June 2020 and her roommate and accused killer Min Jian Guan was found guilty today, in no small part because the murder was broadcast on Zoom with Guan visible on the screen.
SF News Gas Explosion In Richmond Injures at Least One An explosion at a Richmond District home reportedly sent glass flying into the street and left at least one person injured.
Arts & Entertainment Restoration of 4 Star Theater In the Richmond Drained Finances of Cinema Nonprofit, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched The organization that has kept the Balboa and Vogue cinemas alive over the last decade is in some bad financial straits after taking a gamble on a third historic neighborhood theater. It's now reaching out for the public's help.
SF News Water Main Break In Richmond District Causes Sinkhole, Fulton Street Blocked Avoid Fulton Street in the Outer Richmond and expect some possible disruption with the 5-Fulton bus as there is a sinkhole and burst water main being dealt with on 29th Avenue that's causing flooding all the way down to 31st Avenue.
SF Politics ‘Ice Cream With A Cop’ Event In SF Melts Down Amidst Raucous Anti-Police Protest A late April “Ice Cream With a Cop” event in the Inner Richmond turned into a hostile confrontation, with video now surfacing of protesters with a megaphone swarming officers and making the event a rocky road.
SF News San Francisco Ends Year With Richmond District Homicide A New Year's Eve shooting became San Francisco's 56th homicide of the year, marking an uptick in the homicide rate seen in recent years.
Business & Tech Why Are Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Constantly Hitting the Same Dead End On 15th Avenue? Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Richmond District Restaurant Created $72 Stunt Dish the Chef Referred to as 'Douchebag Fried Rice' — Guess How Many People Ordered It In our era of "Instagrammable" food, a chef at a Richmond District Vietnamese restaurant decided to create an over-the-top stunt dish around the holidays last year, figuring they might sell a few and get some free marketing and that'd be it. But instead, it took off.
SF News Car Dealership Burglarized In the Richmond, Suspects Make Off With Three Luxury Cars At least three suspects broke into a Toyota dealership in the Inner Richmond on Saturday, ransacked the office, and made off with three used cars worth about $150,000. All three cars were later found abandoned in the Bayview and the Sunnydale housing projects.
SF News Richmond District Catholic School Suspends Classes Amid Drama Between Parents And Priest Star of the Sea School in the Richmond will not be enrolling any students in the 2019-2020 school year, for the first time in 110 years, and parents say it's all the fault of parish pastor Father Joseph Illo.
SF News San Francisco Sues To Shut Alleged Richmond District Brothel Down An Outer Richmond "Health Center" that officials say is a front for the sex trade will have to face those allegations in court, after the San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a suit
SF News Video: Canine/Human Team Of Alleged Package Thieves Roams Richmond District A pair of package thieves was caught on tape robbing the porch of a Richmond District home last week, accompanied by two presumably innocent dogs. The Richmond District Blog has the tale, writing
SF News PG&E Staffer Reportedly Blames Fog For Richmond District Power Outage #UPDATE: 1,600 PG&E customers without #power in #SanFrancisco.https://t.co/34qEmLmbIU— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 30, 2017 A PG&E outage that knocked power out for thousands of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Remembering the Rope Swing At Mountain Lake If you were a daring kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s or 80s, you may remember going out to Mountain Lake Park at the edge of the Presidio where there
SF News Driver Fleeing From Police Causes Richmond District Collision A driver on the run from police ran a red at a Richmond District intersection Wednesday night, causing a crash that injured two. According to the San Francisco Police Department, it all began
SF News Police Say Candle To Blame In Early-Morning Richmond District Fire That Injured 4, Displaced 25 Enormous house fire on 23d Avenue in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/ok5k7GZosC— divaesq (@divaesq) April 7, 2017 San Francisco police say that a candle was behind fire in the Richmond District this
SF News Six People, Two Dogs Displaced In Fire At Fifth And California An Inner Richmond resident was injured Monday night, when a fire blazed through a building on Fifth Avenue, near Presidio Terrace. According to tweets from the San Francisco Fire Department, crews were called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Richmond District Indian, Eritrean Restaurants Shot At During Dinner Diners and staff at two Richmond District restaurants a half a mile apart were terrified but uninjured by gunfire in the same five minute span on Sunday night, incidents that an SFPD spokesperson
Arts & Entertainment Local Toy Store Owner And Children's TV Show Host 'King Norman' Has Died: Long Live The King! PHOTOS: #KingNorman, #BayArea man know by many Baby Boomers for children's 1950s TV show, dies at 98. https://t.co/WhyjARq0mr— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) January 4, 2017 Norman Rosenberg, royalty to a set
