Mission Mission

What does it mean? OMFG has spied these all over New York and wants to know why.

Previously:

Cool Baby

Cone in a Hole

Birdhouses on a Wire

Rad Walklet! Thanks, Rebar! (But what happened to the big-ass marimba?)

All photos by Rebar, from their set Walklet.

This just in from Dolores Park Works. Porta-potties will be installed along Dolores St. this summer! I guess petitions really do work!

On non-event weekends (event producers are required to provide portable toilets), RPD will provide five portable toilets and a hand washing station.

The Association of Creepy Muni Track Peeping Toms (ACMTPT) is expected to protest this development.

(photo by superdillettante)

Can you imagine the reverberant sonic bliss that will fill the air when your mallet hits a tine of that size!? This is going to be the best parklet ever!

Or at the very least maybe it will kind of offset the sobering changes afoot at Revolution Cafe.

Photo by Rebar Art Collective.

“Light refreshments,” people! Get over there!

Previously:

Mission Streetscape Plan Introduces New Urinals on Valencia Street

Our pal Mo K. sends us the news:

ugh, my poor sick boyfriend was just evacuated from our flat on 18th @ valencia because of a gas main broken.

pg and e is on the case…  :\

Everybody okay?

Mission and Highland, as requested, has just followed up on yesterday’s trash-tipping tale. It takes a crane, ladies and gentlemen, to hoist a tipped San Francisco trashcan out of the gutter. It takes a crane.

Kudos to the City of SF for a job well done in a timely fashion.

In the comments section of our post about Dolores Park flunking playground school, reader Laurie says:

To be fair, A-grade Mission Playground, an excellent place that we adore, can be rough around the edges. In the last week there’s been parents picking up broken glass from the asphalt walkway within the fenced-in children’s playground. And within the fenced-in Valencia Street hardscape, small kids played with broken bottles, watching them shatter to smithereens.

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So, kids will be kids? Colorful neighborhoods will be colorful neighborhoods?

Infographic by Mission Local.

Mission Local yesterday announced the release of a citywide playground report card, in which Dolores Park’s playground ranked amongst the lowest of the low. The failing grade indicates the playground is ill-signaged, under-equipped, dirrrty and unsafe.

Over at Curbed SF, Susie Cagle points out that just four years ago the same playground got a B, and asks whether this might be a case of politics undermining playground report card propriety.

You know, because the city wants everyone to get behind its forthcoming renovations.

The good news is, other neighborhood playgrounds rank amongst the highest of the high. Read on.

[via SFist]

Infographic by Mission Local.

Previously:

These Kids Are Cleaning Up Dolores Park

Save Dolores Park! With Anarchy!

Reader snoopz got a hot tip that whoever owns Delirium may have purchased the International Club out at 29th and Tiffany in La Lengua. In which case, the scene at south Tiff’ might change quite a bit.

Neighbor Katie, in response to snoopz’s comment, hopes otherwise: “I would rather have the IC’s midnight accordions than what i walk through on 16th street.”

Photo by Robby Virus.