16th St. Mission

📍 16th Street Mission area is a vibrant, culturally rich neighborhood centered around the intersection of 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco. The neighborhood's main transit hub, the 16th St Mission BART station, is a vital underground station that connects the area to the rest of the Bay Area. ★★★★★

16th St. Mission BART is convenient and gets you where you need to go, with plenty of good food nearby. Lately, though, it's calmer-and in a way, not as interesting. I miss the energy this area used to have, but with ICE activity, the streets feel quieter and less alive. I've heard San Francisco is making a turnaround, so maybe that vibrancy will come back. Time will tell.

Get off from this station, and walk around Valencia Street, where you can find a lot of restaurants, music, theatre etc. I love the energy and vibe of this area!

the station is dirty and the surrounding area smells bad and has drug use.

There was a station agent here that is quite rude. Don’t know what kind of people Bart is hiring but for the pay and benefits they are getting I’d say they are overpaid. Maybe this is where the money is going instead of improving the stations and trains. Privatize BART already.

5 stars not necessarily for cleanliness or efficiency (can’t expect much from Bart stations in general but especially SF), but for the worker I encountered. I had a long night, am not used to taking Bart, and got confused about which train to take. Since Bart employees probably deal with a lot, I expected to encounter someone who might be a bit curt with me. Instead, the person manning the booth walked me all the way downstairs to show me which side to take and point out which screen to watch for train timing. It’s rare to meet strangers who will go out of their way to help out!

The directors of Bart should come to San Francisco and see the problem at both stations on Mission/16th and Mission/24th Streets. They are both a mess with homeless, drug sellers, drug addicts hanging and sleeping there. It is not a clean area to walk. There is always trash and food on those sidewalks. They need to have Bart police at both of these stations.

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Don't let the hipsters brown-bagging it fool you, because 16th and Mission Open Mic is actually not as bad as it looks. This is where art, literature, and music becomes unadulterated and anything can happen (I mean, it is in the Mission at NIGHT, afterall). Anyone and anything are welcomed! It's a great way to be exposed to great poetry, music, and other bizarre forms of art. There is a mixture of different types of people, ranging from the afore mentioned hipsters to dorky college students to bums. Ah, the bums! They add a great element to the open mic night when they either throw stuff at the crowd and argue with them, or sing, clap, and dance to music being played by a seemingly nervous musician. It's really a fun time to be had and unpretentious, unlike most open mics I've been to, in and outside of San Francisco.

One of my favorite SF events... I've always loved poetry but this is something really to be relished. Real street poetry from the heart, not the show-boating snooty crap that you find elsewhere. Outside the BART station on Thursday nights come rain or any other weather- people will come out to share their art. and it's a great place to get your feet wet for the first time reading in public. This is one of my favorite parts of the event since there isn't any pressure, you just read, sing, ramble- whatever you feel like. Cons? It's not perfect. Sadly the trend over the past year has been an increasingly less tolerant crowd. If someone speaking looks homeless, poor, or isn't a hot twenty-something then they can get a lot less attention which is a real bummer. My experience has proven that sometimes the least applause can be best though, since you can often times deeply touch just one person in the crowd. I guess that's the magic of an open mic. If you live in SF you gotta check this out.

The open mic WITHOUT a mic! These folks have been holding it down for...6 YEARS!! These renegades meet in the underbelly of SF for a weekly reading. You better shout loud, and don't hold back as this is the STREET! That means chock full of noise, chatter and passersby... Charlie Getter and Brandon Loberg -- purveyors of The 16th and Mission Review, publish an anthology of poetry including many of the poets/performers who come down to read on Thursday nights. This thurs May 14th is a big deal -- BOOK X!! And yes, yours truly is included. The DEETS: Starts at 10pm every Thursday, FREE, a bit seedy (yes, there are crackheads), but oh so FUN. Just do it.

This is still going on?!?!?! I used to live in the Mission and hung out here every Thurs. night a couple years back!! If you can tolerate the occasional homeless folks asking you for change, it's the best spot to drink, *cough, cough*, and listen to EXCELLENT spoken word poetry. A must for poetry lovers.

Cigarette smoke and car engines. The sights not so sweet, and the air is thick. Nothing's what it seems. feelin like an unlit wick.... watching the people scatter over loud chatter... If you looks pass the smiling faces you see dreams shattered. trying to lock away this ego and be open to the crowd... A woman dancing like nothing else matters. looking for the moon under these black clouds. My Bright red head rap in a dark crowd. The streets are humble but the people proud.... Damn it's loud! I wish the world was conscious. Time to leave this intoxicated crowd. Stay woke they say but I'm ready for bed... #myexperienceonmission