A church meal program has become the target of residents seeking to reduce the number of homeless people living in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood.
St. Francis Lutheran Church officials say that despite a recommendation introduced last week to suspend Sunday morning meal service for 90 days to see if it affects the area’s homeless population, they intend to keep feeding people.
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Merchants in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood are concerned about what they say is an increase of homeless people in the area — enough to call for a meeting with police and elected officials.
Business owners say they worry that violence and theft are increasing in the area, too, due to the presence of people on the streets who are mentally ill or have substance-abuse problems.
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The architectural details on the houses immediately north of Duboce Park reveal some of their historic nature, but the entire neighborhood could soon become a landmark.
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After nine full days of transit disruptions, traffic shutdowns and bike path closures, normalcy returned for hundreds of thousands of commuters Monday.
Centered on construction projects in the Duboce Triangle and Cole Valley neighborhoods, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s “long shutdown” was a big pain for commuters, but there are now big-time improvements as a result of the work.
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Pat Tura wants to change the way pedestrians and cars interact at intersections. And she’s starting in her own neighborhood.A handful of recent pedestrian deaths in the Duboce Triangle and Upper Market areas of The City prompted Tura to look at what she can do. Her solution: adopting a corner.
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The Castro Muni station was closed for roughly an hour Tuesday afternoon following a power outage that is still affecting thousands of households.
The power outage that affected roughly 5,200 households in the Duboce Triangle and Lower Haight neighborhoods occurred around 2:30 p.m., according to PG&E spokesman Joe Molica. It was a result of an underground cable that failed.
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A man was struck with a baseball bat in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle neighborhood on Saturday night by three suspects who yelled homophobic slurs at him, police said Monday.The attack was reported at about 9 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Market and Sanchez streets.The victim, a 52-year-old Santa Barbara man, was approached by the three suspects, who struck him with the baseball bat once or twice while yelling the slur “faggot,” police Capt. Denis O’Leary said.
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