SF News Dozens of Unpermitted Mission District Vendors Cited, Nearly 400 Issued Warnings Under New Law City officials, vendors, and businesses in SF's Mission District are reporting cleaner sidewalks and fewer unpermitted sellers offering suspected stolen merchandise since the implementation of a new state bill in June.
SF News Illegal Street Vendors Still Crowding Mission District Sidewalks Despite New Law Despite a new law that went into effect last fall, the SFPD has yet to issue any citations to illegal street vendors in the Mission this year, and residents say illegal activity is spreading to side streets.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Michelle Tea’s 'Valencia,' Boozie Brunch, Culinary Cinema, and California Turns 175 This week: Michelle Tea’s ‘Valencia’ turns 25, and California turns 175; Boozie Brunch boosts local restaurants while Culinary Cinema pairs films with three-course meals; a state park thrives post-wildfire and Point Molate is opening to the public; plus, puppy yoga, cat Pilates, and Bay Area makers.
SF News Sixth Street Crackdown Seems To Be Just Merely Pushing Blight to Mission District The recent crackdown on vending and drug use along SoMa’s Sixth Street may be getting some results, but those results appear to be just moving the unsavoriness to major plazas in the Mission District.
SF News Scott Wiener Teams Up With Mayor Lurie on Proposed New Illegal Street Vending Law The latest effort to tamp down the illegal vending scene in SF is a state-level bill from state Senator Scott Wiener, though it only applies to San Francisco, and Wiener has lined up Mayor Lurie and several SF supervisors to support it.
SF News SFPD on the Defensive, Releases Bodycam Video of Controversially Physical Hot Dog Vendor Arrest An early September arrest of a hot dog cart vendor at the Embarcadero is still in the news because of the very rough physical tactics used, but the SFPD just released body cam video they claim shows the woman assaulted a city employee, and coerced a little girl to cry.
SF News Both SFPD and Hot Dog Vendor Speak Out After Viral Video of Rough, Physical Arrest The SFPD arrest of a hot dog vendor who was slammed to the ground and held down made a splash in the local news. But both sides are now going public with their own versions of events, which unsurprisingly, do not quite match.
SF News SF Police Slam Down and Handcuff a Sidewalk Hot Dog Vendor, In Front of Her Screaming, Crying Daughter In the latest case of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors being more harshly persecuted than other illegal street vendors, video has emerged of a Sunday incident where a woman was tackled and detained for selling hot dogs, in front of her terrified toddler daughter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Giants Cracking Down on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Carts Outside Oracle Park Isn’t the unpermitted sale of bacon-wrapped hot dogs the most victimless crime imaginable? The SF Giants and the city’s Department of Public Health feel otherwise, and have launched a new wave of enforcement against the hot dog carts.
SF News New State Legislation Targets Street Vendors Selling Stolen Goods, Permitted Vendors Are All For It The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.
SF News Legal Mission Street Vending Site Being Shut Down for Lack of Customers When City Hall banned vending on Mission Street, it offered two alternative sites for legal vendors. But now the city is shutting one of them down, because no one ever goes there.
SF News Mission Street Vending Ban Declared a Success, Gets Extended for Six More Months A little over two months into the Mission Street vending ban, city officials are pleased enough with the general decrease in blight that they’re extending the ban for another six months.
SF News Mission Street Vendors to Protest Temporary Ban With Friday March A band of legitimate Mission District street vendors say they're being unfairly penalized for the illegal activity of others, and they were planning a protest march Friday at City Hall.
SF News Gonzo Journalist Interviews Serial Car Burglar In SF, Draws Direct Line Between Fentanyl and 24th Street Vendors You may be familiar with gonzo YouTube journalist Andrew Callaghan and his "Channel 5" interviews with everyone from the Q Shaman, to anti-vaxxers, and Phish fans. Well, he just spent some time in San Francisco, and his footage is both sensational and enlightening.
SF News One Week Out From Mission Street Vending Ban, Alternative Vending Sites Revealed One week out from the Mission Street vending ban, Supervisor Hillary Ronen insists she won’t delay the ban, and revealed the alternative sites where vending will be allowed.
SF News Mission Street Vending Ban Delayed, As the City Will Likely Be Busy Busting Vendors Near APEC The Mission Street vending ban is now delayed until after Thanksgiving, reportedly because of APEC, an event for which the city is determined to clear Fisherman’s Wharf of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors.
SF News SF City Hall Vows Crackdown on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors for APEC “I would like to seize as many hot dog carts as possible,” vows one city official in emails obtained by Bloomberg, as a crackdown on hot dog vendors is curiously one of the items on SF’s APEC preparations to-do list.
SF News Mission Street Vendors Not at All Happy About New Vending Ban, Which May Only Be a 90-Day Ban Most Mission Street vendors do not even realize that SF is gearing up to ban vending on Mission Street, and we now learn the vending ban might only be in effect for 90 days.
SF News Street Vending to Be Banned Outright on Mission Street, as City Workers Cite Assaults Supervisor Hillary Ronen made the surprise announcement that the city will ban all vending on Mission Street (or try to, at least), as threats and attacks on city workers have apparently been escalating.
SF News SFPD Recovers Nearly $18,000 Worth of Stolen Apparel In Mission Street Illegal Vending Bust Some surprisingly high-end items were being sold by street vendors on Mission Street, as SFPD says they busted two vendors suspected to be part of a fencing operation, selling an estimated $17,880 worth of stuff allegedly stolen from Lululemon and Victoria's Secret.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DPW Employee May Be in Hot Water for Knocking Over Hot Dog Vendor’s Cart A big new heat wave arrives Wednesday, a 72-year-old woman was killed in an Oakland hit-and-run and her body wasn’t found until the next day, and social media is up in arms over a DPW worker’s treatment of a Fisherman’s Wharf hot dog vendor.
SF News Now 16th Street BART Plaza Has Those Metal Anti-Vending Barricades Put Up, Too The waist-high barriers meant to curb illegal street vending at 24th and Mission streets have now also popped up at the 16th and Mission Street BART Plaza too, though they may be deterring sidewalk access more than they deter street vending.
SF News BART Police Install, Then Remove Possibly Decoy Watch Tower at 24th and Mission Plaza In the ongoing, Sisyphian effort to curb illegal vending and other illegal activity outside the 24th and Mission BART Station, BART Police put up a 15-foot watch tower on Monday. Then they took it down.
SF News Now They’ve Put Barricades Around the McDonald's at 24th Street BART Because of Illegal Vending Scene A new wrinkle in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between SFPD and illegal Mission Street vendors, as “event fencing” now surrounds the perimeter of the McDonald’s next to the 24th Street BART station.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
