SF News Mother Arrested After Leaving Infant Alone in Parked Car in the TL After leaving an infant alone inside a parked car in the Historic Tenderloin District, a woman (claiming to be the baby's mother) was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment last night. At the
SF News Man Stabbed, Killed at Cadillac Market An unidentified man was stabbed to death inside Cadillac Market in the Tenderloin this morning, reports SF Chron. Police say that the man was attacked at around 1:50 a.m. at the
misc How to Keep Your Car Windows Safe In the Tenderloin Jerry James Stone snapped this image while frolicking in San Francisco's Historic Tenderloin District last night. This sign, it seems, is supposed to keep rapscallions from smashing the vehicle's windows. How very depressing.
SF News Carjacking Ends In Crash KRON 4, in between a slew of easy-entry-walk-in-bath commercials, reports that an early morning carjacking at Sutter and Polk ended in a crash. No word yet as to the condition of the vehicle's
SF News Strip Club Pink Diamonds Shuts Down Prompted by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, notorious Tenderloin strip club Pink Diamonds was forced to shut its doors yesterday. According to SFGate, a judge ordered the, eh, burlesque club to officially close for
SF News Take a Mid-Market Tour With Gavin Newsom Today At 5 pm today, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom will take a tour of the charm-free middling area of Marker Street. You know, the area between Sixth and Eights Streets where you were mugged.
Arts & Entertainment Wonderland, a Month-Long Tenderloin Art Exhibition, Launches Tomorrow This heads-up comes to SFist directly via Johnny Funcheap himself. Seventy-four artists have collaborated to create sixteen site-specific art installations throughout the Tenderloin District (from Geary to Market, Larkin to Mason) in the
SF News Herrera Continues Effort To Close Pink Diamonds How could a place so sweet sounding be so violent? When that place operates in the Tenderloin, it's damn easy. And, as he's done before to other heavenly establishments, City Attorney Dennis Herrera
SF News SFist Blotter SATURDAY/MISSION: At around 9:40 p.m. at 14th and Mission streets, someone was stabbed. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening stab wounds.
SF News Eddy Street Closed Due to Water Main Break AlertSF informs us that Eddy Street in the TL will be janky for most of the evening due to a busted water main. There is a large water main break at 301 Eddy
SF News SF Homicide #34 John Montgomery, 37, has been identified as the 34th San Francisco homicide victim of 2009. Montgomery was stabbed at the Vincent Hotel at 459 Turk sometime around noon on Thursday. According to CBS
SF News George Gascon Declares Futile War on Drugs and Hookers in the 'Loin Has anyone heard of this thing called the War on Drugs started by President Nixon, in which drug dealers and users get thrown in jail in order to clean up our streets and
SF News Cleansing Sixth Street? Not likely. But a new effort to sanitize Sixth Street is underway, starting this month, care of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. And what, exactly, will clean up San Francisco's scariest and urineiest
SF News UPDATED: TL Standoff According to ActionNewsSF, "Tendernob standoff now has Hyde closed Sutter-Geary & Post closed Polk-Leavenworth." Please adjust your route home as you see fit. KGO Radio reports that a man barricaded himself inside a
misc "All You Need is a Crane" This photo on Curbed seriously made our afternoon. Apparently, a long-time Curbed lurker discovered this rooftop streamliner while doing a building inspection for a housing project in the Tenderloin. Blogger 40Goingon28 confirms it's
SF News Police Chief Gascón's Goals During a VIP tour of San Francisco's Historic Tenderloin District, new San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón was rendered flummoxed -- especially after a drug deal went down right before his very eyes.
SF News Bricks Fall from Hibernia Bank Jones Street Over in the Tenderloin yesterday evening, some pieces of molding fell down from the top of the old Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones Street on McAllister. Why? Because the place is old
misc Man Describes "Nightmare" of Living at Civic Center Hotel ca. 1979 This man, whose name we believe is Bob, grew up in Vallejo and moved to San Francisco in 1979 to pursue his dreams of being a postal clerk and (possibly) becoming a liberated
SF News Commuter Train Heroin Trafficking Ring Intercepted A heroin smuggling ring that involved transporting hundreds of kilos at a time hidden in train engines and compartments has been busted up by federal authorities, as announced yesterday by Acting U.S.
SF News Shooting / Drug Dealing / Assault Hotspot Masked by Pretty Crosswalks In an effort to appear more quality of life-ish, the intersection at Eddy and Taylor received a makeover. (Taylor and Ellis got the same design yesterday too.) This Tenderloin spot, best known for
SF News Woman Shot in the Tenderloin Speaking of body parts, a woman was shot in the leg last night in the Tenderloin. According to CBS5 / BCN, the incident occurred at around 9 p.m. last night at (where else?
SF News Historic Tenderloin YMCA Closes Today Sad news. The Tenderloin Y will officially shut its doors today, just short of its 100-year anniversary. "The eight-story, 150,000-square-foot building at the corner of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue," which
SF News SFist Blotter FRIDAY / MARINA: Marking a rare guest appearance on SFist Blotter is the controversial Marina neighborhood. [cue Ritual Roasters coffee spit take] See, during a two-hour standoff inside a Marina hotel at 11 p.
SF News Newsom Demands Answers from PG&E With the second major underground fire in four years roaring last Friday -- spectacularly so, we might add -- Mayor Gavin Newsom wants some answers from PG&E. If you recall, in
