Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Tenderloin

SFPD Declares Open Season on Pedestrians With the Right of Way

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 16, 2012 | 56 Comments

Despite clear video footage showing a shuttle bus driver running over a man in a crosswalk at Eddy and Leavenworth Streets yesterday, pinning him for 20 minutes, San Francisco police saw no reason to even issue a citation. The victim, who walked with a cane, was making his way through a crosswalk with highly visible […]

The Tenderloin Finally Gets a Taste of Car-Free Sunday Streets

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

Mary San George was sitting outside her neighborhood flower store yesterday, facing the historic residential high-rise building on O’Farrell Street where she has lived for 27 years, and marveling at something she very rarely gets to experience in her Tenderloin neighborhood: a street full of people instead of cars. “People use this street like a […]

SFMTA Installs Bike and Ped Lights on the Broadway Tunnel and Tenderloin

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 3, 2011 | 19 Comments

The SFMTA installed two new signal lights this week that the agency hopes will lead to increased safety for people walking and biking in the Broadway Tunnel and a Tenderloin intersection. The Broadway Tunnel may feel less intimidating for some bike riders after the SFMTA installed a sensor-activated signal this week to alert drivers of […]

The Slow, Beautiful Road to Community on the Streets

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Mona Caron contemplates her next stroke on her new mural at Jones and Golden Gate in San Francisco. Mona Caron is a visual troubadour of street life in San Francisco. Her murals have become increasingly famous in their gorgeous detail, portraying San Francisco’s romantic past juxtaposed to inspired visions of its future. Equally powerful is […]

A New Mural in the Tenderloin

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 18, 2009 | No Comments

The mural is being painted on the white building in the second square from left, as seen from the Bell Tower atop St. Boniface Church on Golden Gate. (Photo LisaRuth Elliott) A new mural is taking shape in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, at the corner of Jones and Golden Gate, diagonally across from St. Anthony’s Dining […]