Sustained neighborhood complaints about raucous nightlife have led one San Francisco official to suggest prohibiting new bars, liquor stores and shops selling tobacco products from opening along a six-block stretch of Polk Street.
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, whose District 3 includes the portion of Polk Street dotted with such businesses, said the concentration of watering holes has resulted in unruly behavior that causes problems for area residents.
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Like anyone who has overindulged, San Francisco’s streets sometimes benefit from a diet. But instead of eschewing fatty foods, roads can become healthier by reducing traffic lanes, widening sidewalks, adding bike paths and greening medians.
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Thieving thugs are apparently all the rage on Divisadero Street.
After a string of terrifying robberies over about a week and a half, the thoroughfare is being flooded with plainclothes and uniformed cops, Park Police Station Capt. Richard Corrales said Wednesday.
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A crook whacked a man with a stick after he was already down in one of three thuggish robberies since Tuesday night, cops said.
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Have cops detained a serial tip jar thief?A suspect arrested on suspicion of stealing a soda and tips from a Divisadero Street cafe Sunday had reportedly struck the establishment for a fifth time in two months, according to a local blogger who interviewed a store employee.
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A soda thief was popped by a cop in a fizzled heist Sunday, police said.The 63-year-old South of Market man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a soda and tip jar in a business in the 300 block of Divisadero Street around noon.The clerk chased down the thief and recovered the tip cash, police at Park Station said. Then a cop on foot patrol detained the suspect at Scott and Haight streets.He was charged with burglary and petty theft, police said.
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San Francisco cops are baffled by a robbery report in which the victim left more than $3,000 worth of electronics — including an Apple iPad — in a parked car overnight. On Twitter Friday, Northern Station police Capt. Anne Mannix reported the car break-in at Filbert and Divisadero streets. The thief nabbed a $1,100 iPad, $2,000 laptop, $100 in cash and a credit card, she said.“Someone actually left these items in their parked car overnight,” Mannix wrote on Twitter.
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An irate driver hurled a rock through the window of a car stopped in traffic near the University of San Francisco campus Tuesday.The victim told cops the driver had followed his car from Ellis and Divisadero streets at around 3:30 p.m. The driver threw the rock at Stanyan and Fulton streets. The rock smashed through the car’s rear window, police said.The irate driver fled, police said.maldax@sfexaminer.com
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Emergency personnel are responding to an accident at Divisadero and Hayes streets in San Francisco on Wednesday morning.
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