A man who met with a woman on San Francisco’s Market Street under the guise of selling her a laptop computer Monday night instead robbed her at knifepoint, police said.The robbery was reported shortly after 8:25 p.m. Monday near the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue.The victim, a 29-year-old woman, had agreed to meet with the man to buy a laptop from him, but when they met he took out a knife and robbed her of the cash she had brought, police said.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to exempt payroll taxes for Twitter and other businesses who move to certain locations in The City's Mid-Market or Tenderloin neighborhoods.The proposal would exempt payroll taxes for new employees for six years for companies that move to the area on or near Market Street between Fifth Street and Van Ness Avenue.
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The Board of Supervisors has embarked on a contentious debate about granting a six-year payroll-tax holiday for new hires to fast-growing Twitter, the San Francisco-based online social network with millions of users worldwide. Opposition comes from the doctrinaire progressive board minority, which does not like giving tax breaks to successful businesses — even when it means creating a significant number of new jobs in The City and revitalizing an eyesore neighborhood.
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The Twitter-sphere was abuzz Tuesday morning with angry Muni passengers complaining about delays downtown to both aboveground and Muni Metro service.Microbloggers lambasted Muni regarding a problem in the subway at the Van Ness Avenue station, and also to the F-Market streetcar line at Market and Fifth streets.
“WTF is up with muni this morning,” a Tweet from CALboi23 read. “From underground to d F line & now d bus... Ugh!!!”
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A man in an electric wheelchair was lucky to be alive after being stabbed in the neck in the Tenderloin on Monday afternoon, police said.
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A woman walked up to an ATM machine at Sixth and Market streets, withdrew $200, then slapped a man who demanded the cash last week.Was she battling a crook? Not quite. Police said the woman, not the man, was the thief — she withdrew the cash after the man’s wife had mistakenly left her bank card in the ATM machine at around 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 13.
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Two people were arrested on hate crime charges Sunday after brawling with a 51-year-old San Francisco business owner, police said.The suspects hollered homophobic epithets while assaulting the business owner in the 2200 block of Market Street around 3:15 p.m., police said.According to police, the victim had asked the suspects, who were outside his business, to leave the property. The suspects refused, and an argument turned into an assault, police said.
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Each day, Muni’s 30-Stockton bus carries more than 22,000 passengers, providing a crucial public transportation option for residents in San Francisco’s northern neighborhoods.And it is my personal nemesis.
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim at City Hall this afternoon to announce a plan that would offer tax exemptions to Twitter Inc. and other companies to the city's Mid-Market neighborhood.The microblogging company, currently located in the South of Market neighborhood, would be exempt from payroll taxes for new employees for six years if it moved on or near Market Street between Fifth and 10th streets.
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Those “temporary” automobile restrictions on Market Street (they’ve been in place since September 2009) could officially become permanent.
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