24th Street’s Sunrise Restaurant facing $3,000 rent hike, unsure about future
Sunrise Restaurant on 24th Street is facing a $3,000 rent hike, leaving its owner unsure if she can stay in the space. It’s unclear if the hike will displace the restaurant immediately, but its owner,...
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The rise and fall of one of SF’s first Latino businesses
La Victoria Bakery has been selling Mexican pastries on 24th Street since 1951 – all but 15 of its 67 years from the corner of 24th and Alabama, where its bright green, yellow and red sign jutting out...
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Ensnared in family drama, La Victoria bakery hit with eviction notice
Famed panaderia given marching orders, but other building tenants are not La Victoria, a 67-year-old traditional Mexican bakery, and five of its subtenants are being evicted from their home on the...
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Vandalized Cesar Chavez mural to lose United Farm Worker symbol appropriated...
A Cesar Chavez mural that was vandalized last Tuesday will be losing its so-called “huelga bird” — the symbol of the United Farm Workers that, more recently, has been used as a Norteño gang sign. “I...
View ArticleAfter 67 years, La Victoria to close Tuesday — evicted by the family that...
Anyone hoping to get their hands on one last pan dulce from 24th Street’s venerable La Victoria must stop by on Tuesday, the bakery’s final day in business after 67 years. The sheriff will, indeed, be...
View ArticleLa Victoria out, Cinderella Bakery in — boycott imminent
Cinderella Bakery’s owner says tactics remind him of the Russia he left A new era has begun for the former building of La Victoria — the famed Mexican panaderia that was evicted by its own founders...
View ArticleBig Hair, Protest, Dancing in the Street: Such Was the Mission in the ’80s
Janet Delaney moved to the Mission in 1982 from the South of Market neighborhood, where she’d spent the last several years photographing and interviewing the people in the area whose homes and...
View ArticleWhat are the best and worst holiday gifts you’ve received?
We asked our Mission neighbors to tell us about the best and worst holiday gifts they’ve ever received. We’re 80 percent of the way toward reaching our NewsMatch goal of $50,000. Help us finish this...
View ArticleFormer La Victoria bakers to open ‘Victoria SF’ on 24th and Capp
Two months after closing shop, the former operating staff of La Victoria Bakery is set to return to 24th Street under a new, yet familiar, name. The erstwhile operators of the old bakery will open a...
View ArticleDemolition on 24th Street: Architect couple building dream home, workspace
The 1905-era building came down Friday, Jan. 3. By the end of the weekend, all that remained at 3040 24th St. was a mini excavator and utility lines exposed by the demolition. In its place, 18-year...
View ArticleA Latino Cultural District on Mission Street? That’s the plan.
A coalition of Mission District nonprofits want to expand the neighborhood’s Latino Cultural District onto the Mission Street corridor, ostensibly as a means to preserve elements of one of San...
View ArticleScenes from Saturday’s celebration of Cesar Chavez on 24th Street
Each year, folks gather in the Mission to honor the life and passing of Cesar Chavez. Some snaps from this year’s celebration:
View ArticlePhilz takes out the trash, obscures Precita Eyes mural
About a week ago, a mural painted by high school students on the side of Philz Coffee on 24th Street received an awkward addition: a hulking, ramshackle wooden structure meant to shelter trash cans,...
View ArticleCity makes its case for axing 51 ficus trees along 24th Street corridor
On Monday evening, dozens of opinionated Mission locals attended a combined community meeting and walking tour of 24th Street’s beautiful yet troubled ficus trees — 51 of which have been slated for...
View ArticleRibbons go up on 24th Street trees in protest of ficus removal
This Carnaval weekend you may notice highlighter-yellow ribbons affixed to 24th Street’s ficus trees. Louie Gutierrez, the owner of La Reyna Bakery on 24th Street, wants you to know the ribbons are not...
View ArticleMission residents oppose ficus tree removal
It was a packed house at City Hall on Wednesday as Mission residents advocated overwhelmingly for the ficus trees along the 24th Street corridor and other parts of the neighborhood to not be removed....
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Paseo Artistico
Acción Latina invites you to participate in Paseo Artístico: “Protect The Sacred.” A full day of free, interactive, bilingual local art activities for the entire family and community on Saturday,...
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Final ficus fight? Decision looming to axe or spare 24th Street trees.
Residents and business owners along 24th Street are vowing to make their stand at an upcoming city hearing, as they aim to keep dozens of trees from being cut down in what could be the final chance to...
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Ficus saga continues — breakout session on imperiled 24th Street trees ensues
Mission activists, San Francisco Public Works and the Board of Appeals agreed Wednesday night to a two-month continuance of a decision to cut 48 mature ficus trees along 24th Street in the Calle 24...
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Supervisor Hillary Ronen plants herself in midst of 24th Street ficus fracas
Supe’s legislation would limit number of ficus trees Public Works could axe District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen told Mission Local Tuesday that her office will take an active role in negotiating...
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