I was walking and talking with a friend of mine who live in the Mission District, and we walked all the way into the Bayview, or Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Thia neighborhood is notable for intense segregation. After WWII, blacks were evicted from all of the other SF neighborhoods, and moved here. It's also known for urban decay and toxic waste. There used to be steel works here, and there's a decommissioned ship yard. Until 1969, the Hunters Point shipyard was the site of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. The NRDL decontaminated ships exposed to atomic weapons testing and also researched the effects of radiation on materials and living organisms This caused widespread radiological contamination and, in 1989, the base was declared a Superfund site requiring long-term clean-up. The Navy closed the shipyard and Naval base in 1994. The pollution of the waters around here is so bad, a section of the coastline is called toxic beach. Due to the history of the great migration, collapsing industries, segregation and marginalization, Bayview-Hunters Point is notorious for its crime and gang activity. I've heard that cops won't even go into certain areas of the neighborhood without backup. I used to live off of Third St., and I have heard shootouts that didn't get any police or medical response. There are blocks with bars on every window, and metal gates in front of the doors. Gang and drug activity, as well as a high murder rate, have plagued the Bayview-Hunters Point district. A 2001 feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle cited feuding between small local gangs as the major cause of the area's unsolved homicides. In 2011, The New York Times described Bayview as "one of the city’s most violent" neighborhoods. Anyways, I was walking with my friend through this neighborhood and saw a few crazy things, one of which was this, a young homeless man sleeping in a shopping cart on the sidewalk next to Bayshore Boulevard. It was a Safeway grocery cart that had the theft brake triggered. It seemed like the guy sleeping there was impervious to noise. My friend and I kept going, and saw him again on our way back.
Young Homeless Person Sleeping Next to a Busy Road (4K UHD)
I was walking and talking with a friend of mine who live in the Mission District, and we walked all the way into the Bayview, or Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Thia neighborhood is notable for intense segregation. After WWII, blacks were evicted from all of the other SF neighborhoods, and moved here. It's also known for urban decay and toxic waste. There used to be steel works here, and there's a decommissioned ship yard. Until 1969, the Hunters Point shipyard was the site of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. The NRDL decontaminated ships exposed to atomic weapons testing and also researched the effects of radiation on materials and living organisms This caused widespread radiological contamination and, in 1989, the base was declared a Superfund site requiring long-term clean-up. The Navy closed the shipyard and Naval base in 1994. The pollution of the waters around here is so bad, a section of the coastline is called toxic beach. Due to the history of the great migration, collapsing industries, segregation and marginalization, Bayview-Hunters Point is notorious for its crime and gang activity. I've heard that cops won't even go into certain areas of the neighborhood without backup. I used to live off of Third St., and I have heard shootouts that didn't get any police or medical response. There are blocks with bars on every window, and metal gates in front of the doors. Gang and drug activity, as well as a high murder rate, have plagued the Bayview-Hunters Point district. A 2001 feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle cited feuding between small local gangs as the major cause of the area's unsolved homicides. In 2011, The New York Times described Bayview as "one of the city’s most violent" neighborhoods. Anyways, I was walking with my friend through this neighborhood and saw a few crazy things, one of which was this, a young homeless man sleeping in a shopping cart on the sidewalk next to Bayshore Boulevard. It was a Safeway grocery cart that had the theft brake triggered. It seemed like the guy sleeping there was impervious to noise. My friend and I kept going, and saw him again on our way back.
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