Years in the making, a public space on Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd streets will jointly open with the Mission Community Market today. A ribbon-cutting at 4 p.m. will kick off the season of the recurring farmers’ market, which for seven years has been run on 22nd Street between Valencia and Mission streets. It will now operate in the newly renovated block...
Two 18-year-old men who suffered life threatening gunshot wounds Monday night in a shoot-out that began around 10:15 p.m. on 24th Street near Bartlett are now in non-life-threatening condition and are cooperating with a police investigation. Witnesses said they heard from seven to 12 shots and saw several men running east on 24th Street. One of the men on the south...
Picking up trash is an apolitical action says permit expediter and power broker, Phillip Lesser. Or, so he thought until Tuesday, when District Supervisor David Campos declined to ask the Board of Supervisors – as he had five years ago – to renew a Business Improvement District on Mission between 21st and 22nd Streets. The designation means businesses there pay...
Two armed suspects held up a 40-year-old man on Bartlett near 23rd taking his wallet, watch and smartphone. While fleeing from the scene, one of the two suspects shot himself in the leg, leaving a trail of blood from Bartlett near 23rd Street to the corner of 23rd and Valencia Streets. The victim was not injured. Police happened to be nearby when the incident...
In a recent editorial in The Kernel, the author cited signs of the “bubble” heading in the direction of a burst and gave tech nine months. But in the heated real estate market, any such collapse is unlikely to happen, according to agents in the Mission District. One of the people to see the Kernel piece was Jonathan Dearman, a San Francisco native and a realtor for...
Shortly before 1 p.m. a two-alarm fire broke out on Bartlett Street between 26th and Cesar Chavez. The two-story building that caught fire housed nine people, all of whom are now displaced as the building is damaged beyond habitability, according to Assistant Fire Chief Tom Siragusa. Firefighters were able to control the fire by about 1:15 p.m., and no one was injured....
MAPP is a great event that happens every other month on the first Saturday of the month. Here are some links to background articles or coverage we have done. And see the schedule below. If you want a map of MAPP, drop by the Red Poppy Art House at 23rd and Folsom this afternoon and pick one up....
On a stretch of Folsom Street where homes now sell for millions of dollars, police shot a man allegedly attempting to steal a bike on Thursday night. On Sunday morning just three days later, young, well-dressed 20-somethings strolled down the block between 23rd and 24th as they made their way to friends’ barbecues. “I sort of expect that kind of...
Police reported at 11:30 p.m. Friday that the suspicious device found at 23rd and Bartlett looked like a bomb, but turned out to be a hoax. “It appeared to be a legitimate active device with a timer and wires,” police reported but “After rendering the device safe it was found to be a hoax device.” Police responded to a suspicious package on Bartlett Street...
Beauty Bar’s wall is getting a makeover, and new art is coming to Revolution Cafe’s Bartlett street wall as well. Deb, a full-time artist and recent transplant from Australia, is working on the vintage-inspired mural at 19th and Mission for Beauty Bar in keeping with the locale’s thematic decor. Though the artist is making San Francisco her new home, travel plans have...
It’s 7:57 a.m. and 49˚ out, and expected to head up to 63˚. Details for the next ten days are here. Today’s block: 24th to 25th, Mission to Bartlett. I left my place at 6:45 a.m. which is noticeable by the light in all of the photos. Scroll down for the full photo collection — we’ve changed the layout on this feature...
The businesses at the shallow end of the Mission between 14th and 18th Streets and Harrison and Folsom continued to be most affected by the storm that hit late last night with one crew getting 68 calls in a two block area. The rain that rushed into some of the buildings rose as high as five feet, said Jason Griminger, a supervisor...
Updated October 30, 11:43 a.m. As soon as the Giants won their third Word Series in five years Wednesday night, the Mission went wild. While it began jovial enough with an impromptu parade down 24th Street and the crowds filling BART plazas, the celebration led to significant violence. Fans set multiple bonfires along Mission Street. One person was injured by...
12:30pm: While the police scanner will likely be active for a few more hours, the streets have calmed down significantly. The riot, for the most part, has subsided. The Mission reeks of burning garbage and smoke hangs in the air. 12:10 a.m.: While traffic is open on Mission street, the riots still rage on Valencia. A big crowd of people are...
