05.03 / 01:53
Covid-19
pandemic
Castro businesses demand help from SF after spate of vandalism
Neighborhood merchants are reeling from the effects of lockdowns — such as an ongoing spate of window-breaking and other vandalism — even while the Castro joins the rest of San Francisco in moving into the less restrictive red tier of COVID-19 reopenings.That and updates from gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and bisexual Assistant District Attorney Matt Donahue, his office's liaison to the neighborhood, were the focus of the virtual Thursday meeting of the Castro Merchants.Dave Karraker, a gay man who is a spokesperson for, and board member of, Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R.