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Tenderloin
One of San Francisco’s smallest but densest neighborhoods in the heart of the city, the Tenderloin community’s grit and resilience keep its character alive.
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Photos: Postage-stamp parks give the Tenderloin room to breathe
Walking the Tenderloin leads to some unexpected surprises. Dotting the neighborhood are green squares of city lots practically no bigger than postage stamps. In these spaces, children clamber the jungle gyms, teens shoot hoops, and seniors play cards. The people are protected by tall fences and stern guards. These oases of safety are the Tenderloin’s…
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Sen. Cory Booker visits San Francisco to talk ‘good trouble’
The latest from the Tenderloin: The outspoken senator will speak about how to stand up in defense of democracy.
People We Meet
People We Meet: Ranjit Brar’s ‘horrible’ road led him back to San Francisco
For a time, Ranjit found himself selling drugs, stealing cars, committing identity theft, anything to make it through the night.
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Fire tears through walls of Tenderloin affordable housing building, displacing 46
No one was injured by the blaze that travelled from the second to the sixth floor of 285 Turk St. on Tuesday evening.
S.F. sues Tenderloin corner store for selling meth, weed
The San Francisco city attorney’s office filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Tenderloin corner store, seeking to shut it down for a year.
No one knows what S.F.’s new drug RESET center will do
City officials offer inconsistent ideas about how the city’s new drunk tank will operate on the eve of its opening.
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Green space
It took years, but this empty Tenderloin lot is finally a soccer field
Two years ago, a Tenderloin elementary schooler dreamed of having a soccer field on the empty lot next to his class. It now is.
‘We can’t have nice things:’ S.F. keeps adding public spaces in the Tenderloin, then axing them
Brand new benches and planters are being removed on Taylor after less than a year. It’s not the first time.
This Tenderloin street closed to cars and opened to kids. It could be a model for S.F.
Elm Alley next to the Tenderloin Community Elementary School invites kids to play in the road. Advocates say the city needs more like it.
The Tenderloin got $2M to create a ‘greenway.’ Years later, it’s still an empty road.
The Golden Gate Greenway was envisioned as a vibrant, car-lite public space in the Tenderloin. Years into planning, it’s still an empty road.
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