Subject: Hunters Point (New York)

• Samples

  October 4, 1995

• Shelter Skelter (Part I)

  November 1, 1995

• Shelter Skelter (Part II)

  November 1, 1995

• What's a man gotta do to find the real soul food deal?

  April 8, 2009

• The War On Gangs

  With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

  August 22, 2007

• Extraordinary Mayor

  July 11, 2007

• Walking the Line

  The SFPD says Daniel Dennard is a gangster, thief, and killer. There’s just one problem: They can’t prove anything.

  March 21, 2007

• Aim Low

  The nation's biggest player in the apartment rental business has found huge profits in low-income housing

  February 21, 2007

• Get Out of Jail Free

  In the process of taking down the city's baddest gangsters, prosecutors and cops set some very scary people free.

  July 26, 2006

• No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

  In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

  July 12, 2006

• Invasive Species

  May 24, 2006

• Gridlock

  Bill Lieberman, new planning director for the Municipal Transportation Agency, wades into the swamp of San Francisco transit politics

  May 4, 2005

• Husbanding Our Resources

  To close the budget deficit, Mayor Newsom should take on the fire union and SFO's bureaucrats before he closes a single rec center for a single hour

  November 10, 2004

• Child's Play

  The enduring charm of the Life Size Game of Mouse Trap and Circus Contraption

  August 11, 2004

• Best Lumberyard

  MacBeath Hardwood

  May 19, 2004

• Arrested Development

  Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors

  November 19, 2003

• Glowing Review

  The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred

  October 1, 2003

• Diseaseville

  Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

  August 27, 2003

• Mob Rule

  Flash mobs: serious social movement or quirky entertainment (or both)?

  July 30, 2003

• Bird's-Eye View

  Get over your phobia in time for this Vertigo-themed gala

  June 18, 2003

• Hot Story

  Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard

  May 21, 2003

• Hot News

  "The first [Historical Radiation Assessment] was rushed .... We should have ... done a better, more thorough job."

  March 19, 2003

• Preaching to the Unconverted

  Martin Luther wants to save your soul -- music, that is

  January 1, 2003

• Burning Mad

  July 31, 2002

• Fallout: The Past Is Present

  The Nuclear Witnesses

  July 31, 2002

• Mirant's Morass

  The plan to build a massive new power plant in San Francisco -- once thought inevitable -- hits a few snags

  April 24, 2002

• Massing Gas

  San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

  January 2, 2002

• Power Politics

  Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

  August 1, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

  July 18, 2001

• Gray Skies

  If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

  July 4, 2001

• Dragon Bites

  A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

  June 13, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  The Fallout From "Fallout";Where There's Smoke ...;Charity Case

  May 23, 2001

• Shame and Courage

  The Navy's unconscionable nuclear recklessness and dissembling at Hunters Point should draw the attention of Congress

  May 9, 2001

• Chlorine, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Trichloroethylene, Beryllium, Nickel, PCBs ...

  Even if radioactivity were ignored, Hunters Point Shipyard would be one of the planet's most polluted properties

  May 2, 2001

• The Path of Inquiry

  How research for this story was conducted

  May 2, 2001

• Mecklin

  July 21, 1999

• Letters

  June 2, 1999

• Lab Rats

  UCSF's Stanley Prusiner is a Nobel laureate and superstar of medical research. But employees don't feel safe working for him.

  May 12, 1999

• No Fishin'

  The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

  July 29, 1998

• Dirty Dealings at the Dock

  San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

  February 25, 1998

• The Redevelopment Sinkhole

  Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

  February 4, 1998

• A Pollution Breakthrough

  Powerful new environmental cleanup regime relies on expert use of votive candles, flowers

  November 26, 1997

• Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

  Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

  March 26, 1997

• School Work Needing Supervision

  Superintendent Rojas says he was just trying to avoid red tape; a lawsuit claims he willfully ignored city law

  December 11, 1996

• Where Crime Pays

  Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  October 23, 1996

• Hey, Sailor!

  The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

  May 3, 1995

• A Murder Most Foul: Man Shot Dead In Double Rock Projects During Apparent Robbery; City's 38th Homicide

  View Larger Map A victim of an apparent robbery was gunned down in the Double Rock projects in Hunters Point in the pre-dawn hours this morning, marking the city's 38th homicide of the year. The Medical Examiner's office would not release the name of the victim to SF Weekly, citing the need to notify family. Police have released a broad description of the suspected killer: He is between 20 and 25 years old, roughly 6 feet tall, and weighing between 180 and 200 pounds. This is the first homicide

  October 4, 2009

• Double Rock Projects Murder Victim Remembered as Loving Father, Inspirational Student

  Courtesy Dion WilsonMichael Bailey​It was a sad day at Southern University Monday as news rippled across campus that a man who, by any measure, should have been on the school's brochures, was instead dead in San Francisco. SF Weekly has written a bit on Michael Bailey, the 26-year-old electrical engineering student visiting from Baton Rouge, La. who was murdered in the early morning hours on Sunday; police claim a woman Bailey and his friends met at a SoMa nightclub conspired to get the men to

  October 6, 2009

• City Mechanics' Beloved Feline Mascot, 19, Is Yet Another Vintage Model

  Joe EskenaziShops the cat, 19, is the benevolent monarch of the city's Central Shops maintenance yard​Dave Del Grande has been working at the city's Central Shops for nearly 25 years. He started as a mechanic and worked his way all the way up to operations director. Any dinged up city vehicle -- ranging from the gardening implements at Harding Park Golf Course to police cars and fire rigs -- comes through his maintenance yard. All told, Del Grande oversees the well-being of more than 6,500 car

  October 12, 2009

• 10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

  André Koehne​This weekend marks the kickoff for the fall holidays--our favorite mad dash of too many parties and too much eating and all that dressing up and over-extending ourselves. For Halloween weekend there's no shortage of budget options to keep you busy. To wit: Muni Diaries Live @ Make-Out Room (Fri.) The Halloween tie-in here isn't blatant, but it does exist. After the whole Bay Bridge shut-down debacle, the number of public transit riders with horror stories to share should've shot

  October 30, 2009