Tag: mission

Nice rack! BART installing new system to thwart bike thefts

BART is considering high-tech means to ensure its riders’ locked bikes stay put. The transit agency is getting ready to test out a new high-security bike rack inside the 16th and Mission station that will allow users to secure their bikes with a swipe of their Clipper cards. A solar-powered version of the system is […]

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Gorillas in our midst

Ape-utation at 21st and Folsom streets. [Photo by Renata]

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Corona Extra and extra and extra and extra

Litter of beer bottles at 18th and Lexington streets. [Photo by Jeff]

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Woman can’t take the heat, attempts to rehome once-bitten burrito

In what has to be one of the most, er, unique takes on the sharing economy, a woman posted to a Facebook forum Monday in attempt to give away her too-spicy carne asada burrito “with one bite taken out.” Up for grabs for free in Oakland, the burrito had come from somewhere in the Mission […]

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Man killed, girl seriously injured over the weekend

Traffic alert in San Francisco mission district. Mission from 16th St to 15th St is blocked w/police activity. pic.twitter.com/IMhGSrRVXw — Frances Dinglasan (@francesabc7) June 5, 2016 A man was killed and a 9-year-old girl critically injured in separate incidents in the Mission over the weekend. Authorities are investigating the death of a 54-year-old man who was found […]

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For the second day in a row, a fire in the Mission

A day after fire damaged two 17th Street apartment buildings, firefighters again found themselves battling a blaze in the Mission this morning. The two-alarm blaze broke out just after 9:30 a.m. in a four-story residential building on San Jose Avenue near 24 Street, according to a fire department spokesman. Two firefighters sustained minor injuries in […]

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Bus stop stabbing caps violent day

A group of as many as 10 people attacked and stabbed two men at a bus stop Tuesday night, leaving one of the victims with life-threatening injuries, police said. The men, ages 34 and 41 years old, were sitting at a stop at 18th and Mission streets when the group approached them around 8:30 p.m., […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Let pie-gones be pie-gones.

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Late night fire destroys Mission senior home

A two-alarm blaze gutted a Mission assisted living facility Monday night, sending one person to the hospital and causing more than $1 million in damage to the building and an adjacent residence. According to a San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman, the fire at Lorne House, 628 Shotwell St., was reported just after 11 p.m. and contained […]

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Good news music lovers, Elbo Room will stick around — for a few more months at least

Slated to be replaced with condos, the Elbo Room was supposed to be closing around the beginning of November. Now it looks like the Mission bar and club has been granted a bit more time. In a Facebook post today, owner Matt Shapiro wrote that the venue will stay put at least until the end […]

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