Mission: Gangs and Cupcakes

WEST
3
2
San Carlos St
16th St
Parque
Niños
Unidos
Folsom St
14
Bryant St
20
York St
Franklin
Square
Hampshire St
15
Potrero Av
James Rolph Jr
Playground
Potrero
del Sol
Park
1
500 ft
200 m
S Van Ness Ave
The Mission District is sprinkled Treat Ave Harrison St
with bakeries. Renowned throughAlabama St
out the Bay Area, these institutions
vary from French-style patisseries Florida St
to Salvadorean bakeries.
13
16
17th St
Jose
Coronado
Playground
12
Garfield
Square
18th St
19
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McKinley
Square
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E A S T
14th St
15th St
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19th St
20th St
11
21st St
***SFPD Gang Task force
10
22nd St
Gang injunction
Mission St
9
23rd St
Norteño territory
17
8
24th St
Sureño territory
Valencia St
Caledonia St
Julian Ave
Lexington St
6
25th St
Bakery
5
4
e
Cesar Chavez St a Av
cit
Pre
Cupcakes, gangs, violence, and
sugar are perceived to exist in
separate worlds. This dividing
boundary is structurally
reinforced, whether by the
police, culinary reviews, or our
education system. The Yelp
reviewer, Joy B., illustrates this
with her one-dimensional
reference to “a slightly unsavory
part of town.” Next time you
bite into your cinammon
horchata cupcake, reinterpret
your surroundings.
Guerrero St
1
7
26th St
SOUTH
nS
t
Oakwood St
BAKERIES
1. Tartine Bakery
2. Anthony’s Cookies
3. Arizmedi Bakery
4. Mission Pie
5. Dianda’s Italian Bakery
6. King’s Bakery
7. Bakery La Mejor
8. Mission Pie
9. Pan Lido Salvadoreno
10. La Victoria Bakery
11. Haus
12. Humphrey Slocombe
13. Sweet Heart Bakery
14. Domingez Mexican Bakery
15. Dynamo Donuts
16. La Reyna Bakery and Coffee
17. Dragon City Bakery
18. Lawrence Bakery Cafe
19. Knead Patisserie
20. Cakework
N O R T H
sio
Dolores St
Duboce Av
St
Mission Dolores
Park
St
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Jose
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GANGS
Church St
M
MISSION:
The Norteño gang
injunction was esta
blished
December 2007. T
he
gang injunction in
a courtissued restraining
order
which prohibits 31
men in
the neighborhood
from
participating in ce
rtain
activities. There is
ongoing
debate about wheth
er
injunctions promot
e racial
profiling or serve as
community safety
zones.