Street kids expect the neighborhood to welcome them as it did their forebears in the '60s, but residents, merchants, and cops are planning a different future
The Hibernia Bank building in 1894, back when the folks milling about it today might be referred to as 'Hobos' For eight long years, the derelict Hibernia Bank building was the tarnished jewel in the Tenderloin's crown of thorns. The grandiose structure, barred off like a crime scene, was reduced to playing host for teeming crowds of drinking, drugged-up derelicts, a number of whom were dealing drugs or tossing soup kitchen food to the pigeons -- who coated the building with thick layers of guan
Captain Gary Jimenez​San Francisco Police Captain Gary Jimenez, who oversees the crime-plagued Tenderloin district, has announced that he will step down next month as Tenderloin station commander. He will be replaced by Dominic Celaya, a former lieutenant at Mission police station, whose promotion to captain was recently announced by SFPD Chief George Gascon.Jimenez announced the move via a terse paragraph in his latest community newsletter. He said he will be taking on a new job as a "night s