Walgreens on 16th Street BART Plaza shutting down after Christmas
The Walgreens at 1979 Mission St., next to the 16th Street BART Station, will close its doors for...
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Tag: 16th Street BART
‘Unpleasant’ or ‘interesting’? Two-ton, $5,000 bench arrives at 16th and Mission
Is it a sculpture? A coffin? An alien pod from outer space that landed right at the 16th and Mission BART plaza? No, say BART officials, it’s actually a bench — a 3,900-pound, $4,661 bench — that was installed a couple of days ago on the northeast plaza near the Walgreens.
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Dueling events in Mission Bay fail to move transit passengers to 16th Street BART
Despite dueling events Tuesday at Oracle Park and the newly minted Chase Center, the increase in passengers to the 16th Street BART Station wasn’t the expected tsunami of bodies, but more of a trickle that resembled any busy day.
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Homeless poet and bird lover John ‘Swan’ Ratliff is back on the street — and suffering
On a recent afternoon, as the 22-Fillmore bus rumbled by every 15 minutes, John “Swan” Ratliff sat hunched over at the 16th and Valencia Muni shelter, taking long drags from a cheap cigarette. To many a passerby, he was just another unhoused old man dying slowly on the streets of San Francisco.
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JCDecaux toilet contract may be flushed, as city spurns extension
The Board of Supervisors budget committee declined today to extend the city’s advertising kiosk...
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Opponents pack meeting on 16th Street “Monster” project — and planning commissioners hear their pain
At the end of a long and tumultuous Thursday afternoon meeting about a proposed 331-unit...
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Ping pong table appears at 16th Street BART Plaza —for ‘the people’
The 16th and Mission BART Plaza received a holiday gift this week: an aluminum ping-pong table —...
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16th Street BART Plaza gleams, for now
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Huzzah! The barricades are down and the plaza on the southwest corner...
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What’s with the 16th Street BART escalators?
I used to live near 24th Street and complain — and chronicle — the BART escalators...
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Can the city clean up the 16th Street BART plaza?
The 16th and Mission BART station is looking a lot cleaner these days, and if city and BART...
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Ronen wants answers on mental health beds and 16th Street BART station
Mission Local checked in this week with Hillary Ronen about her first year on the job as District...
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Suspicious package shuts down 16th and Mission, proves not hazardous
Police have determined a suspicious package at 16th and Mission streets to be non-hazardous,...
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SF Supervisor asks BART directors to come clean “filthy” 16th St. Plaza
For months, BART Director Bevan Dufty has been out at 16th and Mission streets on Wednesday...
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Where so many have failed, two SF officials take on cleaning up the 16th Street BART Plaza
To the 12,600 people who pass through the 16th Street Mission BART Station on a typical Wednesday,...
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Fix-It team heads to the Mission to field repair requests
Mayor Ed Lee’s “Fix-It Team” has arrived in the Mission District and will be touring the...
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Without Permission at 16th St: past, present and a cat on her hat
Walking through the 16th Street BART station, I hear a guy who calls himself The Jonah Kit playing...
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