SF News Man Fatally Shot In Alley Off Van Ness Avenue, Near Cathedral Hill A man was fatally shot Sunday morning in San Francisco's Western Addition, not far from where a major police raid occurred last week concerning drug activity.
SF News Oldest House In San Francisco Sold, Will Become Noise Pop Headquarters The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
SF News Hit-and-Run Collision Takes Out Utility Pole at Gough and Golden Gate A yellow SUV slammed into a utility pole/traffic signal at Gough Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition on Tuesday, and a suspect reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF News One Person Killed In Western Addition Shooting Thursday Night A male victim was fatally shot near the intersection of Eddy and Scott streets Thursday, and the SFPD chased a possible suspect vehicle across the Bay Bridge before losing it in Oakland.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Western Addition Residents Complain of Growing Drug Use, Homelessness A community meeting in the Western Addition addressed growing issues on the street, a local food bank is seeking donations this week, and California is facing a $24 billion budget shortfall next year.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crazy Police Chase Tears Through Western Addition Walkways A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
SF News Sup. Dean Preston Wages Fight Over HUD-Related Evictions of Longtime Tenants at Western Addition Complex The bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the likely profit motives of one management company are once again running head-first into San Francisco politics and this city's chronic housing shortage.
SF News [Update] Building Fire at Ellis and Laguna Sends Smoke Over Western Addition, Injures Five, Displaces 18 A two-alarm fire broke out around 10:20 a.m. Friday at a residential building in the Western Addition, sending smoke up over the middle of San Francisco that could be seen from around the Bay.
SF News Massive New Development Announced In Fillmore District on Site of 70s-Era Affordable Project A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
SF News Western Addition Metal Bar Attack Leaves 30-Year-Old With Life-Threatening Injuries A yet-unidentified 30-year-old man clings to life after a Monday night attack at Fillmore and Geary.
SF News Four Shot On Fillmore Street Friday, One Suspect Arrested VIDEO: Police investigating quadruple shooting on Fillmore Street in San Francisco https://t.co/C3aqxkmDyV pic.twitter.com/lyHUyUF9Sj— San Francisco Info (@SFinformer) October 28, 2017 Gunfire erupted in the Western Addition Friday
SF News Deplorable Teen Escapes As Mugging Partner Busted In SF Half of a Western Addition mugging team was arrested Monday, after police tracked down one of the members of the gun-wielding duo. It all happened near the corner of Divisadero and Eddy Streets,
SF News Deplorable Teens Shake Down Muni Passenger For Shoes A teenage boy had a rough ride on Muni Friday, when a group of fellow teens demanded his shoes at gun and knifepoint. Police say the crime went down at 9:40 p.
SF News St. John Coltrane Church Finds Temporary Home In the Western Addition When the specter of eviction began to loom over the 1971-founded St. John Coltrane Church this past February, Archbishop Franzo King told SFist that his congregation was concerned but far from defeated. "This
SF News Deplorable Teen Robs Skateboarding Filmmaker A teen who will filming some skateboarders found himself in a crime movie Tuesday, when an all-too-real mugger arrived on the scene. The 14-year-old male victim was, police say, filming skateboarders at Geary
SF News You Can Now Rent The 'Full House' House For $14K A Month Those all-grown-up 90's kids who found companionship through their television sets in the likes of sitcom families such as the Tanners and the Winslows now have a chance to make the fantasy world
SF News Deplorable Teens Snatch Razor Scooter From 31-Year-Old Rider A Fillmore Street Razor scooter rider was cruelly stripped of his mode of transport Tuesday, after two teens ripped it from his grasp. The 31-year-old male victim was piloting his scooter down Fillmore
SF News SFPD Reexamines Ten-Year-Old Cold Case Murder Of Aubrey Abrakasa, Reveals New Info On the afternoon of August 14, 2006 a Monday 17-year-old Aubrey Abrakasa was leaving his mother's home in the Western Addition and headed to his job as a youth counselor at a park
SF News Yet Another Aging Affordable Housing Complex Senses Threat From Outside Development Today we hear of another case involving a subsidized housing complex in the Western Addition that's over 30 years old and that suddenly finds itself in an awkward, legally tricky predicament regarding its
SF News [Updated] SFPD Nabs Suspect In Western Addition Sexual Assault Please scroll down for updates. Following a brazen mid-morning attack on a woman walking on a San Francisco street, police are hopeful that surveillance video of her alleged assailant might help them track
SF News 99-Year-Old Western Addition Woman Granted One-Week Reprieve From Eviction From today's rally in solidarity for Iris Canada. 99 years strong. Eviction = Death. Let our seniors live in peace. pic.twitter.com/iro45ajyQf— Tina Cheung (@tinacheung) April 13, 2016 After a court hearing
SF News Sixteen Displaced, One Injured In Three-Alarm Fulton Street Fire In #SF right now a major fire on Fulton between Baker and Lyon pic.twitter.com/SBp4YziJaD— Chris Golden (@chrisgolden) February 14, 2016 Sixteen people have been displaced and a young boy injured
SF News Bizarre Lawsuit Over Western Addition Housing Complex Settled Out Of Court Last summer, SFist broke news about a Section 8 housing project on Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, built in the 1970s by a prominent black church in the neighborhood, that was
