In October 2018 the New York Times described the northwest side of Hyde Street between Eddy and Ellis as “the dirtiest block in San Francisco.” I describe in my new book reporter Thomas Fuller’s take: “a single span of Hyde Street hosts an open-air narcotics market by day and at night is occupied by the unsheltered and drug-addled slumped on the sidewalk.” This intersection only blocks from City Hall and Union Square reminded him of “developing-world squalor.”
That block of Hyde is just as dirty today. Its sidewalks remain drug-filled.
The open-air drug market still thrives…