It’s everywhere.
It’s on buildings, benches, street poles, garbage cans, and parking meters. Graffiti is synonymous with the beleaguered Tenderloin neighborhood, the epicenter of the city’s drug and homelessness crises.
But on Friday, a little slice of the TL — on Larkin, Hyde, Turk, and O’Farrell streets — got a good scrubbing.
Officials have dubbed the cleanup event the “graffiti blitz.” It was the first of its kind in the Tenderloin and the first organized by San Francisco’s Public Works Department with a Community Benefit District, nonprofit organizations that aim to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across the city. The work was handled by staffers from both, along with an army of 70 volunteers and two paint-matching trucks.
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