SF News Man Who Thought He Was Getting Into Lyft Robbed At Gunpoint This report has been updated following its publication. A user of the transportation network company Lyft had an unexpectedly scary ride this week, after a fellow passenger robbed him at gunpoint. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
SF News Dead Women In Tenderloin, Mission Might Be San Francisco's 50th and 51st Homicides For 2015 The San Francisco Police Department are investigating two separate deaths of women across the city, possibly taking SF to the second-highest number of homicides it has seen in the past five years. Details
SF News New Allegations Against SFPD Officers Reveal 'Pattern Of Racial Profiling, Sexual Assault' What is going on with the San Francisco Police Department? In the midst of serious questions about the department's use of force in the shooting death of Mario Woods, and following the repugnant
SF News Man Calls 911 And Threatens To Murder SFPD Officer, Is Quickly Arrested A San Francisco man is in custody today after he placed a late Sunday night phone call to 911 informing dispatchers of his intention to murder a San Francisco Police Department officer parked
SF News Flaming Pants Flung In Tenderloin Food Fight It's unclear if anyone was lying during a dispute at a Tenderloin food establishment last week, but one thing is certain: The incident ended with someone's pants on fire. Bay City News reports
SF News Arrest Made After Woman Is Shot To Death In Mason Street Supportive Housing Shortly after a woman was fatally shot in a residence near Union Square and the Westfield Mall, police detained a man they described as "a person of interest." Thursday afternoon, the San Francisco
SF News SF's 39th Homicide For 2015: Woman Killed Near Westfield Mall A woman was shot and killed on Tuesday night just steps from the popular tourist areas of Union Square and the Westfield Mall, bringing San Francisco's homicide count for 2015 to 39. San
SF News Blind Tenderloin SRO Resident Falls To His Death In Empty Elevator Shaft When a Tenderloin SRO elevator door opened on an empty shaft, a blind hotel resident fell to his death, another resident tells SFist. The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed that on August 20th
SF News Third Body In Several Months Found In The Same Tenderloin SRO, Investigation Ongoing The Crosby Hotel, a 125-unit SRO building at 516 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin, has seen an arguably unusual number of deaths among its residents so far this year, and it made headlines
SF News Mid-Market Muni Bus Struck By Gunfire A Muni bus was damaged by gunfire Friday night, when bullets struck it as it turned onto a busy San Francisco Street. Hoodline reports that a 5-Fulton bus was turning McAllister Street onto
SF News Dead Bodies Keep Turning Up In Tenderloin SRO No One Should Have To Live In The Crosby Hotel at 516 O'Farrell Street may be a case study in poorly managed, essentially neglected Tenderloin SROs. Not only was a 48-year-old man found dead in his room last week of
SF News With Thursday Death, SF Is On Track For Its Highest Homicide Rate In Years A man found dead in a Tenderloin residence appears to be a victim of San Francisco's 30th recorded homicide for 2015, putting the city on track to hit its highest number of annual
SF News Wednesday Morning High-Speed Chase Sends SFPD Across SF A man and two women are in custody Wednesday following a high-speed chase that sent San Francisco Police Department officers through Hayes Valley, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin and the Mission. It all started
SF News Hooray! Those Pee-Deflecting Walls Are Working! The walls in San Francisco mean business. Or, more accurately, they mean "don't do your business here." That's after a new, fast-moving pilot program to paint walls with liquid-repellant paint which is already
SF News In San Francisco, The Walls Pee On You Testing out a new pee repellent that "pees back" to prevent public urination. pic.twitter.com/6eDJ4w9MWH— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) July 23, 2015 It was a lightning-fast move, given that we're talking
Arts & Entertainment Tenderloin Museum Opens In Former Sizzler Steakhouse Space Did you know that multiple cities in the U.S., including New York, once had sketchy neighborhoods nicknamed "Tenderloin" all because policemen could always expect bribes and/or hazard pay for working there,
SF News SFPD Seeks Public's Help To Nab Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Two Pedestrians Sunday The San Francisco Police Department is working hard to build a case against a hit-and-run driver who slammed into two pedestrians Sunday in the Tenderloin, but the driver will never be convicted without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Head Baker Leaves Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Uh oh... Ry Stephen, the pastry chef/baker who created the cruffin and put uber-trendy Mr. Holmes Bakehouse on the map over the last year has parted ways with the Tenderloin bakery. As
SF News Photos: D.I.Y. Signs Asking Tenderloin Thieves To Not Break Car Windows While it's best to not leave valuables in the car in case of a break-in, anyone looking to rob a parked car is going to smash a window to double check anyway. As
SF News Tenderloin SRO To Become Free Housing For Ex-Cons In a pioneering program that came out of a partnership between the SF Superior Court, the Adult Probation Department, and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, ex-convicts will be getting free, temporary supportive housing in
SF News SF Politico Accused Of Child Porn Possession Out On Bail, Allegedly Also Had Stolen Parking Meter Five days after the influential political consultant best-known for his work "convincing" Mayor Ed Lee to run for office was arrested on child pornography charges, a few more details on his case have
SF News SF's 20th Homicide Of 2015: Oakland Man Killed In Tenderloin Drive-By A weekend drive-by shooting in the Tenderloin has left a 30-year-old Oakland man dead, and the San Francisco Police Department seeking witnesses or video surveillance that might help them identify a suspect. 30-year-old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Southern Food Spot, Rusty's Southern, Arrives In The Tenderloin A brand new Southern-style restaurant that has the added bonus of now serving Biergarten's much-drooled-over Wednesday night burger, is now open in the former 750 Cafe space at 750 Ellis, and it's called
SF News Arrest Made In Unprovoked Attack Of Homeless Man In The Tenderloin Police have made an arrested a man in the brutal Wednesday night attack of a beloved homeless man in the Tenderloin. Arthur Lee Jones of Fairfield was arrested by an SFPD officer on
