In sharp contrast to Saturday’s success in keeping Mission Street clear for pedestrians, on Sunday, vendors and later drug users controlled Mission Street from 16th to nearly 14th Street.
At noon Sunday, unpermitted vendors flooded the west side blocks of Mission Street. By 6 p.m some of the vendors remained, but pipes and other drug paraphenalia were nearly as common as the toothpaste, electronics and the shoes for sale. I counted 11 glass and other pipes from 16th to 15th streets, turned around and counted 16 on my way back to 16th Street.
There’s a lot of misery on the street – few of the denizens look like they were having much fun…