The death of Market Street - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

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How San Francisco turned its most iconic street into a giant empty scar.

I still remember the first time I set foot on Market Street. I was a freshman in college, and big cities were still a very new thing to me. It felt like I was swimming through an ocean of foot traffic; the towering shops and hotels seemed like they were built by giants. That Market Street is gone now. In its place is a giant empty field of asphalt in the center of San Francisco — a desolate gray waste baking in the sun, empty except for the occasional bus and a tiny smattering of bicycles. On either side of this yawning wasteland are giant sidewalks with only a few pedestrians, boarded-up…

The death of Market Street - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

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