SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 36-Year-Old Haight Street Bar Hobson’s Choice Is Closing Permanently Another punch in the gut to the SF bar scene, as the owner of Upper Haight rum bar Hobson’s Choice has announced the place is closing, though the establishment’s final day has not yet been determined.
SF News Police Arrest Suspect in Haight-Ashbury Sandwich Shop Attack, Suspect Has Multiple Other Warrants An arrest has been made in the July 19 punching of the owner of Sandy’s muffuletta shop, and the 30-year-old suspect has previous arrest warrants for sexual battery and gun charges.
SF News New Sandwich Shop Owner In Upper Haight Punched In Face, Wants Justice Three months into owning a sandwich shop in the Upper Haight, business owner Peterson Harter says he was sucker-punched in the face Wednesday afternoon when he confronted a suspect who was urinating outside his store.
SF News [Update] 81-Year-Old Woman Being Evicted From Upper Haight Condo Hits Back With Lawsuit In a sad tale that combines predatory lending with the seeming financial abuse of an elder, an 81-year-old woman’s Upper Haight condo was auctioned at a fraction of its value, and the new buyer gave her a three-day notice on Friday. But now she’s suing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Shots Fired In Haight During 4/20 Event Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
SF News Suspect Arrested In South Bay for Cold-Case 2021 Stabbing In Upper Haight The SFPD believes they have the culprit in a fatal stabbing in the Haight-Ashbury that occurred 16 months ago.
SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Is Staying Open After All, and Will Remain at Its Same Haight Street Location A “marathon mediation at City Hall” Monday resulted in a deal where Haight Street swing music nightclub Club Deluxe will indeed stay open and in business, at the same Haight and Ashbury Street location where it’s operated for 33 years.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni Bus and Truck Collide In the Haight A Muni bus and a pickup truck were in a crash on Haight Street this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured falling down an elevator shaft in Sea Cliff, and the SF school board is holding a special meeting this weekend.
SF News [Updated] Another Shooting In the Haight Kills One Person, Injures a Second There was another outburst of violence in the Upper Haight Thursday afternoon with the second shooting in two weeks, and this time at least two people were shot and injured.
SF News Some Neighbors Bristle as Former McDonald's Site In Haight Goes From Tent Village to Homeless Drop-In Center The notorious former McDonald's property at 730 Stanyan hasn't exactly been less of nuisance to the neighborhood since the McDonald's was torn down last year.
SF News Gas Leak Prompts Shelter-in-Place Order In Upper Haight A gas leak that is now said to be under control caused a brief scare in Haight-Ashbury on Tuesday, perhaps disrupting some residents' plans to get to their polling place.
SF News Insane Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of Upper Haight; Neighbor Group Blames Encampments A brawl broke out Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Clayton and Haight streets, and a neighborhood group that lobbied against the city establishing a sanctioned tent encampment nearby posted video to Twitter and implies homeless campers are to blame.
SF News Off-Duty FBI Agent Allegedly Shot Homeless Musician Because He Saw Weed The 24-year-old homeless kid who was shot last week by an off-duty FBI agent in the Haight is speaking out, and the story, if true, is all kinds of effed up.
SF News Notoriously Sketchy Haight Street McDonald's Fully Demolished The infamous McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan is now completely gone, as the building was razed and the site is now almost fully cleared to make way for an affordable housing development.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Creepy Object Shop 'Loved To Death' To Cease Taxidermy Sales Loved To Death, the well-known taxidermy and oddities shop in the Upper Haight that is kind of like a more goth version of Paxton Gate, is shutting down its spinoff next-door gallery space
Arts & Entertainment Rare Photo Collection From 1967 Shows Haight Street Fashions In The Summer Of Love In the private photo collection of Charles W. Cushman, recently made available online through the Indiana University Archives, there's a group of photos that were all likely shot in the same month, March
SF News So, Wait, Are We Supposed To Call The Cops For 'Quality Of Life' Violations Or Not? Attendees at a community meeting on Upper Haight crime got a mixed message Tuesday night, as police told those assembled that they should report all crimes they observed, then said that certain crime
SF News Accused Haight Vintage Store Owner Cicely Hansen Brings News Cameras Into Her Store Cicely Hansen, the owner of Decades of Fashion in the Upper Haight, held a press conference in her store Friday and brought reporters into the back room where California Fish and Wildlife agents
SF News Owner Of Upper Haight Vintage Store Charged With Nine Counts Of Selling Furs From Endangered Species Cicely Hansen, the longtime owner of Decades Of Fashion at the corner of Haight and Belvedere who was "flabbergasted" by a raid on her store last year by California Department of Fish and
Arts & Entertainment Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Promoter Steps Down, Haight Street Shop Owner 'Sunshine Powers' Steps In After his application for a free Summer of Love 50th Anniversary concert in Golden Gate Park was denied by the Recreation and Park Department and an appeal of that decision was also denied,
SF News Murderous Drifters Plead Guilty To Golden Gate Park, Marin Killings Two in a group of three drifters, Morrison Lampley and Lila Alligood, pleaded guilty today to two first-degree murders over the course of a meth-fueled weekend in 2015. Sources including the Examiner and
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Arts & Entertainment Booksmith Opens New Chapter With Legacy Business Status And Expansion To Second Act Space The Booksmith, which rang in its 40th anniversary in July, has more to celebrate this week: It's been granted Legacy Business status and will expand across Haight Street to the former Red Vic