After attending a meeting at Native Books in Chinatown recently, a younger friend suggested a group of us walk together to our cars in a nearby parking structure for safety.
My neighbor Ann Rayson and other acquaintances have the same perception: Chinatown is dangerous after dark. She doesn’t like going there even in the day, saying, “It’s sketchy with so many homeless on the sidewalks.”
I do not share that wariness about Chinatown. But I can see how the idea has taken hold…