Yikes! Photo by Lydia Chávez

Right now it is 59° with a high of 69° – the forecast for the next ten days is here.

Today’s block:  16th to 17th, Utah to San Bruno.

The block is dominated by the postal service, but it is also at end of Mission territory – an end marked by the freeway cutting through and arching up and over the blocks between San Bruno and Vermont. Underneath the freeway, occasional encampments appear and on any morning I imagine, the area has a feeling of being on the edge.

With the light good early on, so much the better to sign on and document your block. Don’t wait! Let us know what day and block you would like at info@missionlocal.com.

You can see a map of all of the blocks here. The blocks in grey are being saved for others who have signed up. Let us save a block for you as well.

The drive up the UPS building. Photo by Lydia Chávez
The drive up the UPS building. Photo by Lydia Chávez
UPS. Photo by Lydia Chávez
UPS. Along 17th Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez
At the corner of 17th and San Burno. Across the street, the freeway overpass dominates. Photo by Lydia Chávez
At the corner of 17th and San Burno. Across the street, the freeway overpass dominates. Photo by Lydia Chávez
A tangle. Photo by Lydia Chávez
A tangle. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Along San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Along San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Looking East on San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Looking East on San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Sky hole. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Sky hole. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Caution.
Caution.
Customer Center on San Bruno.
Customer Center on San Bruno.
Looking west on 16th Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Looking west on 16th Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Photo by Lydia Chávez
Photo by Lydia Chávez
Posts and a tree. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Posts and a tree. Photo by Lydia Chávez

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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