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I lived a block from here prior to Covid, and I would've called this a safe part of town. Honestly incredible there was a stabbing there. My condolences to the

by madrox 4y ago

I lived a block from here prior to Covid, and I would've called this a safe part of town. Honestly incredible there was a stabbing there. My condolences to the family. The guy was too young.

UberFly 4y ago
Unfortunately even in safer areas there are predators out looking for prey at 2:35 a.m., especially in places where crime is now epidemic.
- assimpleaspossi 4y ago
  Nothing good ever happens at 2:35 in the morning.
  - layer8 4y ago
    Especially during spring DST switchover.
hackernewds 4y ago
San Francisco, as you must be aware, has changed a LOT since pre-Covid. Arguably the administration and policies are surely to blame. Hope this is a wake up call, but evidence points to the contrary in present day SF
- madrox 4y ago
  It's one thing to have heard rumblings and another to hear about this happening a block from your old home. Upsetting story on many levels.
somsak2 4y ago
post COVID, SoMa is maybe second only to the tenderloin in how overrun it is by the homeless
- pageandrew 4y ago
  Some parts of SoMa, this is true, like 4th Street+. The area where this man died is known as Rincon Hill and is dominated by tech offices, Sweetgreens, and luxury highrise apartment buildings and is basically dead after 8pm every day of the week. I lived a block away from where this man was stabbed for a month and it felt safe and dead quiet once all the tech workers go home.
  - genocidicbunny 4y ago
    The fact that its dead in the evenings is part of the problem. Places like that tend to attract a kind of a crowd later in the evenings precisely because it is nice and quiet otherwise. A friend used to live in that area shortly before Covid and the quiet was too quiet -- sometimes it felt like those scenes from westerns where the whole town shutters up when the big bad gunslingers are having a showdown.
    - five_alive 4y ago
      Although a lot of the buildings in that area have lobbies that are staffed round the clock.
- himinlomax 4y ago
  I thought we were supposed to call them "the unhoused" or something.

by madrox 4y ago

I lived a block from here prior to Covid, and I would've called this a safe part of town. Honestly incredible there was a stabbing there. My condolences to the family. The guy was too young.

UberFly 4y ago

Unfortunately even in safer areas there are predators out looking for prey at 2:35 a.m., especially in places where crime is now epidemic.

assimpleaspossi 4y ago
Nothing good ever happens at 2:35 in the morning.
- layer8 4y ago
  Especially during spring DST switchover.

hackernewds 4y ago

San Francisco, as you must be aware, has changed a LOT since pre-Covid. Arguably the administration and policies are surely to blame. Hope this is a wake up call, but evidence points to the contrary in present day SF

madrox 4y ago
It's one thing to have heard rumblings and another to hear about this happening a block from your old home. Upsetting story on many levels.

somsak2 4y ago

post COVID, SoMa is maybe second only to the tenderloin in how overrun it is by the homeless

pageandrew 4y ago
Some parts of SoMa, this is true, like 4th Street+. The area where this man died is known as Rincon Hill and is dominated by tech offices, Sweetgreens, and luxury highrise apartment buildings and is basically dead after 8pm every day of the week. I lived a block away from where this man was stabbed for a month and it felt safe and dead quiet once all the tech workers go home.
- genocidicbunny 4y ago
  The fact that its dead in the evenings is part of the problem. Places like that tend to attract a kind of a crowd later in the evenings precisely because it is nice and quiet otherwise. A friend used to live in that area shortly before Covid and the quiet was too quiet -- sometimes it felt like those scenes from westerns where the whole town shutters up when the big bad gunslingers are having a showdown.
  - five_alive 4y ago
    Although a lot of the buildings in that area have lobbies that are staffed round the clock.
himinlomax 4y ago
I thought we were supposed to call them "the unhoused" or something.