Opponents pack meeting on 16th Street “Monster” project — and planning commissioners hear their pain

Feb 8, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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’

Dec 21, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

Sep 22, 2018 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Newsletter

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?

May 19, 2018 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

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?

Feb 15, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

Dec 21, 2017 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

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

Dec 16, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

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

Nov 27, 2017 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Transportation

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

Nov 16, 2017 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

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

Jun 5, 2017 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

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

May 8, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Walking through the 16th Street BART station, I hear a guy who calls himself The Jonah Kit playing...

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Health Food Delivery Service Moves into Former Mission McDonald’s

Mar 16, 2017 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

A fryer that once churned out fast-food potato fries will now be producing sweet potato fries made...

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The Swan Who Feeds and Cares for SF’s Pigeons

Feb 6, 2017 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

John Ratliff reaches into the pocket of his jacket and says, “This is my latest project,” and he...

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Artists to Close Empathy Wall Tonight with Community Gathering

Nov 18, 2016 | BART, Election Coverage, Events, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The array of sticky notes full of positive, inclusive, hopeful messages written by passerby at...

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Man Who Disarmed Drunk Relative Acquitted of Gun Charges

Oct 25, 2016 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office announced today that a man who had been charged...

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Pigeon Poop Begone, Says BART Board Candidate

Oct 19, 2016 | Election Coverage, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Transportation

Michael Petrelis, the political gadfly and a candidate running to represent part of San Francisco...

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