Poop-hopscotch: Kids dodge drugs, feces near 16th and Mission elementary school
For months, Jackie Fielder’s office has tried to make the streets around Marshall Elementary safer. Are things finally changing?
Mayor Daniel Lurie has made the 16th Street BART Plaza one of his targets to show how the city can make a difference. For years, the plaza has been a place of violence, drug use and mayhem. Recently, unpermitted vending has made it more chaotic. On quieter days, and during earlier crackdowns, it is also a place where local residents who live in the city’s SROs can hang out and get some fresh air.
Lurie’s efforts have raised the question: Is this serious or just a temporary game of Whac-A-Mole that will move the problem to another part of the city?
To answer that question, we will be photographing the BART plaza, Wiese Street and other nearby streets daily. If you would like to participate in holding the city accountable, send us photos with the date to info@missionlocal.com and a subject line reading “16th Street.” We will try to use as many as possible. If you do not want your byline on the photo, let us know.
In our dispatches, we’re counting the days since the San Francisco Police Department deployed an RV-sized “command center” and parked it on the plaza.
3 people arrested after 16th & Mission weekend stabbing that injured 3
The stabbing, which left two people with life-threatening wounds, occurred just hours after Mayor Daniel Lurie had visited the plazas.
‘We’re here to create something positive’: Pop-up at 16th St. BART seeks to activate plaza
Vendors and families activities took over the 16th Street BART plazas on Saturday. The event is a city effort to activate the plazas.
Day 270 at the 16th St. Plaza: It’s all about the nights
“It can get crazy over there,” said Stephen earlier this week as he looked across to the east side of Mission Street.
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Mission District food vendors say they took a bath during Super Bowl week
Mission District food vendors say they lost hundreds of dollars after city officials kept them from selling during the week of the big game.
Mission food vendors say new S.F. rules could burn them
The Budget & Finance committee will hear a proposal on a new permitting system for food street vendors. Vendors say the plan could hurt them.
Here’s the list of items S.F. cops can now bust you for selling illegally
City supervisors approved a list of commonly stolen goods in San Francisco in a bid to stop illegal street vending.
Day 238 at the 16th St. Plaza: Pinky and his plushies
The BART plaza was calm on Tuesday morning, with people lounging alone or with friends. Later in the evening, the northeast plaza was crowded with vendors.
Day 213 at the 16th St. Plaza: Camaraderie on Capp Street
They looked like old friends, but Federico and Anthony had met just hours before on the corner of 16th and Capp Street.
Day 207 at the 16th St. Plaza: Trucks move onto the plaza
The one street that has changed? Capp Street is now more of a problem north of 16th Street, on the same block as Marshall Elementary School.
SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.
SFPD nixes 24/7 police bus at 16th St., offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending
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