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Haight Street’s 1800 block maxed out the city’s graffiti count at all four inspections

Oct 30, 2026

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Haight Street’s 1800 block maxed out the city’s graffiti count at all four inspections

The inspectors’ form stops at 100 marks. Like every Upper Haight block checked last year, this one hit it every time.

Streets & Safety

Police drones flew over the Mission 188 times in September, nearly triple a year earlier

Oct 28, 2026

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Police drones flew over the Mission 188 times in September, nearly triple a year earlier

The Mission draws more drone flights than any other neighborhood, mostly because it has the most urgent police calls. In September a drone went up on about one in eight of them, near the city’s one in nine.

Culture & History

Mow Lee, a Chinatown meat shop its family dates to 1856, joined SF’s legacy business list

Oct 26, 2026

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Mow Lee, a Chinatown meat shop its family dates to 1856, joined SF’s legacy business list

It is the oldest of the 57 businesses San Francisco added to its legacy registry this year and the fourth-oldest of the 491 on the list. The oldest record its application names is a 1949 phone directory.

City Hall

14 SoMa parking lots lose their reprieve December 31, and none has applied to extend it

Oct 23, 2026

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14 SoMa parking lots lose their reprieve December 31, and none has applied to extend it

A 2025 law let parking lots stay through 2026 in two South of Market zoning districts that ban them. City planners had recommended that police deny permits for five of the lots; since the law took effect, they have approved all 14.

City Hall

Yelp CEO gave $400,000 against Prop G, 49% of the money to keep the Great Highway a park

Oct 21, 2026

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Yelp CEO gave $400,000 against Prop G, 49% of the money to keep the Great Highway a park

The committee that campaigned for Proposition K in 2024 has raised $816,761 to defeat Proposition G, which would bring weekday cars back. Jeremy Stoppelman supplied $400,000 of it, after $350,000 of the $790,873 it raised two years ago. The Yes on G side has raised $141,458.

Housing

The Gateway towers have filed the same bathroom permit 400 times since 2023

Oct 19, 2026

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The Gateway towers have filed the same bathroom permit 400 times since 2023

The 1965 complex on the old produce market holds 1,254 rent-controlled apartments, and 905 of the 1,201 occupied ones have a tenant who arrived since 2020. The parcel under 440 Davis Court has filed more plumbing permits since 2021 than any other parcel in the city. A one-bedroom now rents for $3,501 to $3,750 to a tenant who arrived in 2024, and $1,251 to $1,500 to one who arrived in the 1970s.

City Hall

Sunset sales tax grew 2.5% after the Great Highway fully closed, behind most of the city

Oct 16, 2026

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Sunset sales tax grew 2.5% after the Great Highway fully closed, behind most of the city

Eighteen days before San Francisco votes on Proposition G, which would bring back weekday cars, injury crashes in the Sunset have held flat while the city’s rose. Its sales tax grew more slowly than most neighborhoods’, about as fast as the Outer Richmond’s, which lost no road.

Streets & Safety

Montgomery Street BART draws 18,908 riders a weekday, a third below the dot-com bust

Oct 14, 2026

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Montgomery Street BART draws 18,908 riders a weekday, a third below the dot-com bust

That was September’s average: 41% of September 2019, and 36% under fiscal 2003, the bust’s worst year. Fridays fell furthest. In 2025 a Friday drew two-thirds of a midweek day, down from 88% before the pandemic.

Culture & History

AI events held half of SF’s 100 biggest guest lists in September

Oct 12, 2026

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AI events held half of SF’s 100 biggest guest lists in September

The city listed 1,403 public gatherings last month. The 22% with AI in the title drew 40% of every registration the public could see. A bar saying goodbye drew one of the five longest guest lists of all.

Archive

Haight Street’s 1800 block maxed out the city’s graffiti count at all four inspections

Police drones flew over the Mission 188 times in September, nearly triple a year earlier

Mow Lee, a Chinatown meat shop its family dates to 1856, joined SF’s legacy business list

14 SoMa parking lots lose their reprieve December 31, and none has applied to extend it

Yelp CEO gave $400,000 against Prop G, 49% of the money to keep the Great Highway a park

The Gateway towers have filed the same bathroom permit 400 times since 2023

Sunset sales tax grew 2.5% after the Great Highway fully closed, behind most of the city

Montgomery Street BART draws 18,908 riders a weekday, a third below the dot-com bust

AI events held half of SF’s 100 biggest guest lists in September

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