In a strange case of mistaken identity, a man was robbed at gunpoint Monday in his own Parkmerced residence after a friend let the crook in, cops said. The 20-year-old victim was at home with a friend in the 100 block of Tapia Drive around 7 p.m. when he heard a knock on the door. The friend answered the door and a man in his 20s outside asked for “Jim,” police said.
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San Francisco police are hunting a young creep who fondled a woman near the Parkmerced neighborhood on Tuesday.Police at Taraval Station were called to the area of Font Boulevard and Chumasero Drive around 4:30 p.m.The victim told cops the perv, described as a man in his late teens, followed her from the bus, police said. She said he reached insider her blouse and touched her breast. Then he touched “all over her body,” police said.
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Advocates for low-income tenants facing eviction at Parkmerced fear they are being targeted by property managers who want to clean house in advance of a complete overhaul of the sprawling housing complex.
Parkmerced has issued 197 three-day eviction notices in 2011, according to data collected by the rent board. Those numbers are up from last year, when Parkmerced served 134 notices, and represent a sharp spike from 2007-2009, when Parkmerced wrote an average of 12 notices a year.
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A crash near San Francisco’s Parkmerced on Thursday night involved a shuttle with 14 elderly people on board and hospitalized seven people, including one critically, police and fire officials said today.The crash was reported at 9:16 p.m. near the intersection of Junipero Serra Boulevard and Brotherhood Way, police said.A vehicle was stalled on Junipero Serra Boulevard when it was rear-ended by a second vehicle, according to police.
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A 21-year-old man was hauled to jail on suspicion of posing as a cop during a violent robbery in Parkmerced on Wednesday morning, San Francisco police said.After claiming he was an officer, the suspect chased down and beat up a 19-year-old man in the 300 block of Font Boulevard just after 3 a.m., police said.
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The approval of the massive Parkmerced redevelopment project by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has come up against opposition that could send the issue to voters.
San Francisco Tenants Union director Ted Gullicksen submitted 19,050 signatures for a referendum on the Parkmerced vote shortly after 4:30 pm Friday at City Hall.
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A 21-year-old woman was forcibly robbed of her purse in Parkmerced on Thursday, cops said.The woman was walking in the 100 block of Bucarelli Drive around 9:20 p.m. when two suspects came up from behind and pushed her to the ground, police said. One of the thugs, described by police as men in their 20s, held the woman down while the other grabbed her purse. The thieves fled on foot with the victim’s purse and cash, cops said. No arrests have been made.
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Mayor Ed Lee signed legislation Thursday that allows the controversial development of the 152-acre Parkmerced site in The City’s southwest corner, according to spokeswoman Christine Falvey.
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When San Francisco turns a corner, it usually means it’s headed straight into a brick wall.But lately, some controlling forces have taken hold that have helped The City bypass its normal route, resulting in real progress for a place that in recent years has seen reason to take a retreat.
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Keeping San Francisco from becoming a forest of skyscrapers once dominated conversations about development in The City. Opposition to such “Manhattanization” was a platform that environmentalists, neighborhood groups and outright foes of development used to block construction projects.But times have changed.
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