SF News Berkeley Man Gets Four Years Prison for Selling Fentanyl and Meth to Undercover Agent In Tenderloin 20-year-old David Ordonez of Berkeley pleaded guilty to selling 90 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of meth to an undercover agent, but the larger problem was probably his backpack crammed with 1,120 grams of fentanyl.
SF News 18-Year-Old Tenderloin Resident Who Went Missing Three Weeks Ago Found Dead In Bayview The 18-year-old kid whose January 6 disappearance we reported on previously, Maxwell Maltzman, has been found dead.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tenderloin Center Shuts Down After 11 Months A fallen tree disrupted BART service Monday between SF and SFO, the temporary Tenderloin Center at UN Plaza officially closed down on Sunday, and that viral video of Steph Curry sinking five full-court shots is a fake.
SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
SF News Homicide Under Investigation at Turk & Taylor Streets A person was apparently shot Monday evening near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
SF News Permanent Sunday Streets-Style Street Park Being Proposed for the Tenderloin It could be Sunday Streets every day on the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue, as a coalition of volunteer groups and nonprofits continues pushing for a plan to close that street to car traffic and make it a permanent playground.
SF News SF's Homicide Count Rises By Two In the Span of a Few Hours Sunday Night There were two homicides in San Francisco between Sunday night and early Monday morning in two separate incidents in the Fillmore and in the Tenderloin.
SF News Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Bar Broken Into and Robbed — Twice In the Same Night The island of swank in an ocean of Tenderloin known as the Black Cat jazz bar suffered a break-in and burglary in the wee hours Tuesday morning, and once police cleared the scene, people promptly broke back in and robbed the place again.
SF News Tenderloin Tennis Coach Declares Tennis Court Untenable, Because, You Know, the Tenderloin A built-in tennis court may sound like a heavenly amenity in San Francisco, but when it’s located near Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street, you’ll have some problems lobbed at you.
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
SF News The Tenderloin 'Formerly Known As Linkage’ Center To Shut Down at the End of the Year The Tenderloin Center that started as the centerpiece of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin emergency declaration will be wound down by year’s end, as Breed’s new budget yanks the funding for it.
SF News Oakland Man Is Latest High-Level Tenderloin Drug Dealer to Get Federal Sentence The feds continue to convict and put away drug dealers at various levels in the food chain who worked the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin. And while others likely quickly moved in to replace them, this is perhaps taking some fentanyl off the streets?
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In Tenderloin SRO Injures One, Displaces 25 A fire broke out in the Dahlia Hotel on Turk Street around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, spreading to multiple floors, and it has displaced 25 residents.
SF News Tenderloin Linkage Center Gets Approved for Six More Months, But Don’t Call It a ‘Linkage Center’ The controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center has been quietly renamed to simply the Tenderloin Center, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved it staying at UN Plaza another six months, for the rest of 2022.
SF News Court Thwarts SF’s Attempt to Ban Four Alleged Repeat Drug Dealers From the Tenderloin The SF City Attorney attempted to ban certain specific repeat drug dealing arrestees from re-entering a 50-block radius of the Tenderloin, but a state appeals court just shot that down.
SF News Street Safety Ambassador Allegedly Shot in Tenderloin Friday Afternoon; SFPD Still Looking for at Large Shooter Around 2 p.m. Friday, SF police responded to a shooting on Turk Street that reportedly involved an individual working for Urban Alchemy — the non-profit organization whose ambassadors in the Tenderloin help discourage conflict — and the shooter has yet to be found.
SF News A Huge Number of SF's Supportive Housing Units Are In Run-Down, Vermin-Infested SROs, and It's Barely Better Than Being Homeless The Chronicle has crunched some numbers and gone inside a handful of the SROs dotting the Tenderloin and SOMA to show just how terrible the situation really is for SF's supportive housing stock.
SF News Four Shootings and Two Stabbings Over the Weekend In Tenderloin and SoMa There were four separate shooting incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods, though none of them were fatal.
SF News Former Castro Sex Club Eros Seeks to Take Over Historic Bathhouse Space In the Tenderloin We now know the proposed new location for Market Street bathhouse Eros, at the Turk and Taylor Street former home of Bulldog Baths, but we don’t know if city regulations will change allowing them to open their doors.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Man For Fentanyl and Meth Sales In SF's Tenderloin Federal prosecutors are highlighting a case of an arrest of a Tenderloin drug dealer who allegedly sold significant quantities of fentanyl, as well as a smattering of meth, to undercover agents in the last several months.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF News Street Ambassador Shot In Tenderloin Near 'Safe Sleeping' Site An employee of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which the City of San Francisco contracts with to manage some homeless services like the "safe sleeping village" tent encampments, was shot and injured Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Supervisors Take a Do-Over Vote on Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, Decide to Delay Their Vote Again After demanding a revote on Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin “state of emergency” declaration, the supervisors debated it for three hours Tuesday night, and then just punted another vote out to February 8.