SF News Union Square Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors Busted En Masse This Weekend, Carts Confiscated The DPH and the police spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday impounding hot dog vendors’ carts and handing out citations, in one of the more “victimless crime” crackdowns from a city eager to appear that it's cracking down on misconduct.
SF News Union Square Smash-and-Grab Arrestees Range In Age From 23 to 53 SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced felony charges against nine individuals on Tuesday in connection with Friday's widespread robberies at Union Square retailers, and they range in age from 23 to 53.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Loses Another Big Store DSW is closing on Powell Street, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the metaverse scares her, and SF Mayor London Breed has come out vocally in support of the recall of three school board members.
SF News Union Square's Handlery Hotel Offers Discounted Room Rate for Caldor Fire Evacuees For any fire evacuees from South Lake Tahoe who'd like to spend a few days in San Francisco to take their minds off the wildfire bearing down on their town, the Handlery Union Square Hotel is offering rates of $75 per night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Japanese-Peruvian Restaurant Signs Lease for Rooftop of Former Macy's Men's Store In Union Square Chotto Matte, a high-end restaurant concept born in London that showcases the Nikkei cuisine of Peru — which is influenced by Japanese immigrants in the country several generations ago — is coming to San Francisco's Union Square next year.
SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News New 11-Story, 195-Room Hotel Set to Open In Union Square In October A new Dutch-owned hotel chain, citizenM, is opening a 195-room Union Square hotel this fall as part of a five-hotel opening push in the U.S. — and it's a rare example of a new-build hotel in the area, on a lot that's been otherwise vacant for two decades.
Arts & Entertainment Summer Events In Downtown SF Hope to Draw Locals and Tourists In Attempt to Repopulate the Ghost Town SF Mayor London Breed announced a $9.5 million plan on Tuesday that marks the city's first effort to boost foot traffic around downtown in the waning days of the pandemic.
SF News Did a Panhandling Suspect Slash a Guy's Face Near Union Square for Refusing to Give Him Money? The SFPD made an arrest Wednesday in a knife attack that may or may not have stemmed from the victim refusing to give a random stranger money when he asked for it.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
SF News Three Black Men Say They Were Victims of Racial Profiling at Union Square Saks Store Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.
SF News H&M Has Permanently Closed On Powell Street After 15 Years Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M has become the latest casualty in the slow collapse of SF's Union Square, as the company announces that it has permanently shuttered its West Coast flagship store on Powell Street.
SF News Grab-and-Run Thieves Wearing Ankle-Monitors Swipe $54K Worth of YSL Purses in Union Square Grab-and-run thievery is nothing new at the high-end shops around Union Square, but despite the best efforts of security guards and a network of cameras, the thieves keep coming back during the pandemic.
SF News Union Square Homicide Has Link to Home Invasion Robbery In East Bay A 21-year-old man who was killed near Union Square last week was wanted in connection with a May home invasion robbery in Fremont — and police had been looking for him for months.
SF News [Updates] Thousands Again Protest Through San Francisco; Groups Gather at Union Square, City Hall Throngs of vociferous — yet nonviolent — crowds gathered at City Hall this afternoon in the hundreds to denounce the killing of George Floyd and ongoing police brutality, later expanding in numbers before individual groups weaved down Market Street and through parts of the Embarcadero.
SF News Union Square Hit-and-Run Leaves Pedestrian with Life-Threatening Injuries The driver of an SUV that mowed down a pedestrian Saturday is still at large, but the victim’s status has been “upgraded to non-life threatening.”
SF News Union Square Pot Dispensary OK’d After ‘Private Agreement’ with Suspicious Neighbor Chanel A cannabis dispensary got approval to move into the former John Varvatos space in the ‘Luxury Zone’ of the Union Square shopping district, despite months of opposition from its bougie retail neighbors.
SF News Macy's/I. Magnin Building On Union Square May Get Condos On Top Floors A new plan has been submitted for a mixed-use conversion of the former I. Magnin building on Union Square — most recently the white-stone-clad extension of Macy's at the corner of Stockton and Geary — that would include 21 condo units on the top three floors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth Returns to SF, Snags Just-Shuttered Ayala Space at Union Square At long last, former French Laundry chef de cuisine Timothy Hollingsworth is opening his long-ago-promised solo restaurant in San Francisco, following a stint in L.A. and a spin on a Netflix cooking competition show.
Arts & Entertainment Smaller, Humbler Gump's Pop-Up Brings Pricey Ornaments To Union Square Legendary bougie Union Square retail emporium Gump's, which went bankrupt and closed up its doors last fall, has popped back up as a pop-up in a much smaller space that was, coincidentally, one of the store's original homes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Eat Around SF's Union Square Between Harry Potter Shows (or Shopping) With holiday shopping season in full swing and the two-part Harry Potter show playing at the Curran for the next six months to a year (at least), you could probably use some ideas for when you're stuck and hangry in tourist trap central.
SF News Brazen Thief Walks Off With $20K Dali Etching From Union Square Gallery A thief on Sunday afternoon snatched a Salvador Dali etching worth $20,000 off an easel inside the door of a gallery near Union Square, and his casual escape was all caught on surveillance video.
SF News Cyclist Reportedly Shoots Uber Driver In Tenderloin Confrontation 5 shots fired on Mason St at Turk. One man down, appears to be alive. #breaking pic.twitter.com/jyRXYu6s11— Fred Zirdung (@fredzirdung) November 2, 2017 A shooting at the peak of rush
SF News 49ers Players Escape Alleged Robbery Attempt Outside Union Square Nightclub Two ambitious — or perhaps foolish — armed robbers tried to mug two San Francisco 49ers players after this past Sunday's game against the Washington [Insert Racist Name Here]. Mission Local reports that according to
SF News [Update] Shooting And Crash Closes Stretch Of O'Farrell Street For Hours The San Francisco Police Department closed a stretch of Union-Square area street for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, on reports of a shooting on the block. ABC 7 reports that O'Farrell Street between
