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A Historic Clinton Day-Designed Home Near San Francisco Is Up for Grabs at $6.5 Million
Though he passed away over a century ago, West Coast architect Clinton Day was responsible for crafting several iconic San Francisco structures like the City of Paris department store, where Neiman Marcus now stands, as well as Gump’s department store, Union Trust Bank, and buildings for the UC Berkeley and Stanford University campuses. But he also designed a handful of private Bay Area residences during his career, including Oakland’s landmark Treadwell Mansion and this particularly striking gem that just popped up for sale in the Oakland-bordered town of Piedmont for the first time in 36 years, asking a dash under $6.5 million.Meghan...
SF police alternative taking vast majority of homelessness calls, mayor says
When San Francisco launched one of its newest street-homelessness response teams last year, its director said The City viewed it as an audition. The Mayor’s Office touted it as a successful one this week. Mayor London Breed said Thursday that the Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team, a collaboration between the Department of Emergency Management and Urban Alchemy to address the vast number of 911 and 311 calls being made each day related to homelessness, responded to nearly 14,000 calls for service in The City —...
LGBTQ mental health clinic rallies against ‘sudden and unjust’ eviction
What was supposed to be a celebration for a nonprofit that provides affordable mental health care to hundreds of LGBTQIA+ clients from its clinic in the Castro became a plea for help as it fends off displacement. San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí planned to honor Queer LifeSpace on Saturday by...
San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid undergoing upgrades
San Francisco’s iconic 52-year-old Transamerica Pyramid is in the midst of a revival that’s resulting in new upgrades as well as the reopening of its beloved Redwood Park, which has been closed since the pandemic. The upgrades include a lively redesign of the lobby, which had been split...
‘Culture-changing’: History of radio is thriving in this fascinating, hidden Silicon Valley museum
Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda, California — which happens to have once been the first telephone exchange on the island, circa 1900 — and you’ll find yourself plunged into an electronic wonderland of Inspector Gadget-type widgets and gizmos.
Woman speaks out after being attacked from behind at SF corner store
A San Francisco woman is speaking out after she says a woman attacked her from behind while making a stop at a Potrero Hill neighborhood corner store. The incident happened Tuesday afternoon and it was caught on camera. Surveillance video showed Kate Ryken walking into the Kansas Food Market Tuesday...
San Francisco's homeless outreach team works to avoid unnecessary police responses
SAN FRANCISCO -- Kenneth Franklin has been given a second chance at life and he's using it to give others a second chance too."Repaying my debt back to society so I never look at it as me giving someone something -- it's more like me giving them what I owe them," Franklin told KPIX.His "debt" comes from serving time behind bars. After facing nearly 60 years for gang-related activity, he was released after 16 years. Today he's using that experience to offer a helping hand to people experiencing homelessness."I was a destroyer. I was destroying our community and now I...
Assault at San Francisco convenience store caught on camera
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in San Francisco have charged 26-year-old Jessica Blazee with felony assault, saying she launched an unprovoked attack on another woman. That attack was caught on camera. The suspect in the case is in jail as of Thursday night, after pleading not guilty. Surveillance video of the...
After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms
This story was produced by El Tecolote, a bilingual publication that documents and amplifies the voices of San Francisco’s Latinx communities. Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar rarely worried about his health. As a construction worker, he had enough gigs to earn more than $500 a week under the table, allowing him to rent a studio for $600 a month with two other Latinx construction workers in San Francisco’s Mission District. Despite working nearly full-time, he was barely able to make ends meet. So, when the pandemic hit, Varilla-Aguilar continued working. He got critically sick in December 2020. To this day, Varilla-Aguilar still wonders whether he got COVID-19 on the job or at the grocery store.
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