[Crawford]

I remember, back in the late 90's, a really raunchy scene along Market near City Hall. Human waste, porn and tourist ripoff shops, homeless washing in plaza fountains, that sort of thing. It was pretty intimidating. I haven't walked that stretch in ages but it has to be somewhat gentrified. But I've never taken MUNI, so maybe disorder has worsened on transit.

And it's probably a bit different than NYC in that Uber/Lyft didn't really change things here, they just made existing systems more efficient. NYC has had "rideshare" since forever, just car services you used to call. Pretty much all larger professional firms in the city have used "rideshare" for employees working late since forvever. You work past seven, you get a "black car" home, even way back in the 70's-80's.