Author: cappstreetcrap
Another hopeless romantic
September 23, 2016
Real Love!!! ❤ it reads ” Maria Marry me. Move in. Fidel #sf #sanfrancisco #missiondistrict #love #portapotty #graffiti A photo posted by Negro Bandito (@supr3m3_un3ak) on Sep 20, 2016 at 5:02pm PDT Tight quarters for a couple of newlyweds. But it is a place to live in the Mission!
Gripe with artist results in vandalism at second Mission mural
September 19, 2016
A tagger who has been using spray paint to express displeasure with a Mission mural appears to have chosen a new target: the same artist’s work on a building one street over. The stencil art of sea turtles along one side of the PG&E substation at 19th and San Carlos streets has been repeatedly tagged […]
Pant-y raid
September 19, 2016
A man selling items on Mission Street as temperatures soared Sunday afternoon was reportedly beaten and robbed of an unlikely item: a pair of pants. According to authorities, the 64-year-old victim had items for sale on the sidewalk on the 1800 block of Mission, near 14th Street, when three or four people approached him around […]
2005 Capp Street fire, one of the deadliest in recent city history
September 15, 2016
Mirtha Estrada lost everything the day she jumped from her third-story window in 2005. Everything except, surprisingly, her life. Smoke had filled her apartment and she yelled for help before plummeting three stories to the sidewalk. According to an account of her ordeal written by a local non-profit, Estrada spent months recuperating at San Francisco […]
Naked aggression? Officer injured in alleged attack by ‘partially nude’ man
September 15, 2016
It was no olive branch, apparently. A nude man who reportedly threw a stick at passersby in the Mission was arrested last Friday after allegedly assaulting a police officer. Robert Mathew Kaplan, 37, of San Diego, was arrested on suspicion of felony battery on a peace officer, felony battery causing serious bodily injury, felony assault with a […]
Going with the flow: Former Clothes Contact becoming an upscale yoga studio
September 9, 2016
The former Clothes Contact, which used to sell clothes by the pound, is changing into something skimpier. After sitting vacant for at least a year, 473 Valencia St. is under construction and poised to become an upscale yoga studio called Love Story Yoga. Mehrad Eslami, vice president of Cocore Development Group, the construction management/general contractors for […]
Dramatic crash leaves woman critically injured
September 9, 2016
A woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries late Thursday afternoon after an SUV hit her and six or seven parked cars before flipping over, police said. Authorities arrested a 51-year-old man following the collision, which happened on Mission Street near 15th just after 4 p.m. The 62-year-old victim was getting into her car when the SUV struck her, […]
You can still get a head in this town
September 7, 2016
Creepiness afoot on Florida near 24th Street. [Photo by CharleeMatti/Instagram]
Popular sea turtle mural defaced again
September 6, 2016
UPDATE 2 p.m.: Artist fnnch said via Twitter that the tagger who has repeatedly targeted his art is someone calling themselves “H.C.” “Asked around but no legit writers know who he/she is,” he said. ORIGINAL POST: A Mission mural that was tagged earlier this year with the words “Latino art only” has been targeted again. […]