Dina Hilliard

A Real Waste: Lack of Paper Clogs Plans for Tenderloin Toilet

The Tenderloin Has Become Your Own Personal Urinal

Just open the door and pee inside​The Tenderloin smells like shit -- literally. And if the lingering taste of urine you get in the back of your throat as you walk through the TL isn't enough to prove it, SF Clean City, which cleans Tenderloin streets, can tell you for a fact. The group charted the ... More >>

Boeddeker Park may get facelift, but will stay closed most of the time

Just open the door and pee inside​The Tenderloin smells like shit -- literally. And if the lingering taste of urine you get in the back of your throat as you walk through the TL isn't enough to prove it, SF Clean City, which cleans Tenderloin streets, can tell you for a fact. The group charted the ... More >>

New Hamsterdam: A silver lining in S.F.'s crime-lab fiasco?

Just open the door and pee inside​The Tenderloin smells like shit -- literally. And if the lingering taste of urine you get in the back of your throat as you walk through the TL isn't enough to prove it, SF Clean City, which cleans Tenderloin streets, can tell you for a fact. The group charted the ... More >>

Power Exchange Sex Club Reopens in Tenderloin, Outraging Neighbors

Now available on Mason Street​There's a place in San Francisco where things get put when the well-to-do or well-organized residents of every other neighborhood in the city don't want it nearby. It's called the Tenderloin. So it should come as no surprise that Power Exchange, the sex club that was ... More >>

Tenderloin Listed as Federal Historic District

Not your average national park visitorsOne of San Francisco's most notoriously downtrodden neighborhoods has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, a distinction that -- in addition to giving the neighborhood some welcome positive attention -- brings the potential for federal tax c ... More >>

Their Daily Bread

A new generation of activists is fighting to clean up the Tenderloin. The neighborhood’s churches are standing in their way. Whose side are the angels on?