Sports Gambling in the Tenderloin?

Posted May 15, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Gambling Long Boosted the Tenderloin and Mid-Market: Could It Return? Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s May 14 ruling legalizing sports gambling in the United States came 63 years late for San Francisco’s Tenderloin.As I detail in my book, The Tenderloin: Sex,
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Tenderloin Leaders Urge City Funding for Municipal Marketplace

Posted May 8, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Will 101 Hyde Become A Woman-Run Market or Remain a City-Owned Drug Hangout? Tenderloin groups rallied Monday to urge Mayor Farrell and the Board of Supervisors to provide the $1 million needed to transform an abandoned city-owned property at 101
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Amidst Problems, Cafes, Apartments are Rising in SF’s Mid-Market/Civic Center

Posted April 26, 2018 by Randy Shaw

New Playgrounds Highlight Transformation of Civic Center Park Having written a book refuting claims that Twitter’s arrival at 9th and Market Street “gentrified” Mid-Market and the Tenderloin, I’ve followed the recent stories about needles, feces and crime in the Mid-Market/Civic
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Tenderloin Times Exposes San Francisco

Posted March 22, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Special Exhibit at Tenderloin Museum Ends Soon If you believe San Francisco has radically changed in the past 35 years, visit the Tenderloin Museum by March 30 (Now extended to April 15!) to see how some of the city’s key
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New Himalayan Dining in the Tenderloin

Posted March 22, 2018 by Rebecca Tang

Another impressive new dining spot has come to the Tenderloin. “Himalayan Pizza and Momo” is a Nepalese restaurant located at 288 Golden Gate, across the street from Hastings Law School and next door to the popular sandwich shop, Morty’s. Himalayan
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Blame SFPD’s Bloated Southern Station for Market Street Crime

Posted March 13, 2018 by Randy Shaw

In 2015, former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr made a fateful decision that haunts San Francisco to this day: he approved a redistricting of Tenderloin and Southern Police Stations that took all of the high-crime areas away from Southern Station and
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Is the Tenderloin “Slowly Gentrifying”?

Posted March 6, 2018 by Randy Shaw

In her otherwise solid story on a San Francisco start-up attracting working people to live in SROs, New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles stated that the Tenderloin is “slowly gentrifying.” Curiously, she made that statement while interviewing someone on a
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World Premier: The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

Posted February 8, 2018 by Randy Shaw

The 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot is now recognized as a landmark in the LGBT movement. It’s occurrence in San Francisco’s Tenderloin was no mere coincidence; the Tenderloin neighborhood launched the city’s LGBT movement before its geographic center moved on to
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