A man dressed in business attire pulled up to a corner in Haight Street on Monday evening and was seen hurling eggs in the direction of a sleeping homeless man on the sidewalk.

The incident happened around 6 pm on Monday, and the SFPD said they were alerted to an incident of "battery" in the area of Cole and Haight streets. As seen in a video posted on Reddit, the man, wearing a sport coat, dress slacks, and nice shoes, opened the hatchback of his car and began hurling eggs at the side of a building and toward a homeless man who was sleeping there under a blanket.

Bystanders can be seen and heard yelling "Stop it!" and several of them then restrain him, to prevent him from throwing more eggs. One woman can be heard screaming "Get the fuck out of here!" and "You're fucking disgusting!"

The man, who appears highly agitated, claims on the video that the sleeping man had assaulted him earlier in the day.

As KTVU reports, the egg-throwing man has been identified by police as Aaron Dawson, and he has declined to comment about the incident.

The homeless man reportedly declined to press charges.

The Reddit post, and subsequent comments from other postings on Xitter, predictably and facetiously point out the outrageousness of doing this "in this economy" with the price of eggs currently so high. As one poster writes, "Man hurls $7,300 worth of eggs at random people in San Francisco."

The incident, and the outpouring of public shaming, is reminiscent of a video that went viral almost exactly two years ago, in which a downtown gallery owner was seen spraying a hose at a mentally ill homeless woman. He was later charged with misdemeanor battery, and after multiple apologies, he agreed to perform 35 hours of community service to have the charges dropped.

If you don't know the glories of a proper, New Orleans-style muffuletta, you will be able to experience this distinct pleasure soon, as Sandy's gets set to open at 1457 Haight Street on April 20.

The muffuletta came to New Orleans by way of Italy, and its origins are traced to Italian delicatessen Central Grocery Co., circa 1906. Owner Salvatore Lupo, a Sicilian immigrant, may have taken his inspiration from similar sandwiches elsewhere, but the muffuletta was born as a sandwich of layered Italian meats — mortadella, capicola, soppressata — provolone cheese, and olive salad, which is essentially a vinegary mixture of chopped olives and giardiniera. Sandy's also put's Duke's mayo (from NoLa) on the muffuletta, which is how some spots do it, but not all.

The other secret is the bread, a round, almost focaccia-esque variety with sesame seeds known as muffuletta loaf, with sandwiches made large-scale, picnic style, and typically sold in wedges.

Getting all these elements right is key, and such alchemy has been hard to come by in the Bay Area until Sandy's came along.

Sandy's has been around in SF for two years now, as a pop-up, and it's the labor of love of New Orleans native Peterson Harter, a former chef at The Progress. Sandy's made appearances at a few locations, and popped up as a stand at Outside Lands last summer where I first tried it — and, having had great muffulettas in New Orleans, I can attest that these are the real deal, and extremely crave-worthy.

As Harter tells Eater this week, he chose the Upper Haight to open his shop because "It’s like New Orleans, it just has that energy to it... It has that funkiness that I really like, and I can’t imagine this being in any other neighborhood now."

The sandwich shop is opening without a liquor license, and with a limited menu of just muffulettas — regular and vegetarian, featuring maitake mushroom — available by the quarter- or eighth-round wedge. Also, there will be some excellent chocolate chip cookies.

Harter says the menu will slowly expand over time to include coleslaw and pickled-egg salad, along with a pickled-egg salad sando that was previously featured at the pop-up. He expects to offer specials like a jumbo lump blue crab roll, and a tomato sandwich when tomato season comes along, as well as a pimento cheese sandwich and one featuring half pickled-egg salad and half pimento cheese spread. For the keto-conscious or gluten intolerant, he's planning to offer muffuletta bowls as well.

Harter is also going to keep things NoLa by playing radio station WWOZ in the shop, and the place is decked out with various family and Mardi Gras memorabilia, including a big papier mache flower that came off a Mardi Gras float.

Look for Sandy's to be open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., to start, Wednesday to Sunday.

An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.

The attack took place on or around December 17, and Eduardo Navarro Perez is accused of assaulting a Jewish man while making disparaging antisemitic remarks. According to a release from the DA's office, Navarro Perez allegedly approached the victim and asked whether he was Black or Jewish. When the victim replied that he was Jewish, Navarro Perez "attacked the victim with a skateboard."

Navarrro Perez was arrested last Saturday and has remained in custody, and today he's been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with a hate-crime enhancement.

"There is no place for antisemitism, or any crime motivated by hate in San Francisco, in our state or anywhere else," DA Brooke Jenkins said in statement. "We will do everything in our power to hold Navarro Perez accountable and ensure there are consequences for this attack."

Jenkins added, "This prosecution will send a message to all who seek to sow division that our diversity and unity makes us strong, and we will not sit idly by and allow anyone to be singled out and victimized because of who they are."

The victim's injuries following the attack are not known, and police did not report details about the assault when it occurred. It's also not clear, until the case moves forward, where on Haight Street this took place.

Navarro Perez faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

This alleged antisemitic attack occurred amid rising antisemitism nationwide, on social media in particular. Earlier this month, Ye a.k.a. Kanye West was seemingly permanently banned from Twitter (again) for posting disparaging things about Jewish people and for posting a Nazi swastika as soon as his account was briefly reinstated under Elon Musk.

Musk, who has offered "general amnesty" to all of the nation's bigots and COVID deniers on Twitter, said of the Kanye re-ban, "He again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended."

Days earlier, West had appeared on Alex Jones's InfoWars and said, "I like Hitler."

At a White House Hanukkah reception on Monday, President Joe Biden condemned rising antisemitic hate online, saying, "Silence is complicity. I will not be silent. America will not be silent."

Previously: D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Calls Jewish Jounalist a ‘NAZI,’ As Her Candidacy Gets Fringier

Photo: Robin Jonathan Deutsch

The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will not wear flowers in its hair as scheduled next Sunday, June 12, but organizers say they are “aiming for the end of the summer” with a replacement date.

Well, as luck would have it, just hours after SFist published our comprehensive list of free street fairs and festivals for the summer and fall of 2022, one of the biggest and longest-running events on that list announced that their 2022 event will not be held as originally scheduled. At around 5 p.m. Thursday night, organizers of the annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair announced that the “The 43rd annual Haight Ashbury Street Fair will be postponed.”

The street fair was schedule for next Sunday, June 12, so the announcement comes just ten days before the scheduled event.

Organizers provided SFist with the above graphic announcement. “The 43rd annual Haight Ashbury Street Fair will be postponed until later this year,” according to the announcement. “With the hiatus over the last couple of years many logistics have shifted, we strive to bring the best experience to the neighborhood and community and want to ensure we deliver."

The statement adds that “The date will be announced soon, we are aiming for the end of this summer.” In a separate statement to SFist, organizers said they “should have a date shortly.” So this does not appear to be a Gilroy Garlic Festival situation where the event is unlikely to ever happen again, but instead some logistical monkey wrench that made organizers unable to hold the event next weekend.

And historically, it is not written in stone that the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair has to be the second weekend in June. The first “Haight Street Fair” was the March 3, 1968 concert seen above, a city-sanctioned event where they shut down Haight Street and let the Grateful Dead jam in the back of a flatbed truck. (There were a lot more people there than the photo indicates.)  The day was informally called the “Haight Street Fair,” and it was meant as a one-time deal.

The first official Haight-Ashbury Street Fair was ten years later, on April 30, 1978. Then-supervisor Harvey Milk was one of the co-organizers, a mere seven months before he was killed. The fair moved to the second weekend of June in subsequent years, eventually attracting headliners like Jefferson Starship/Airplane, The Tubes, and Metallica.

Just for kicks, check out the above video of Bob Weir appearing at the 1985 Haight-Ashbury Street Fair. It’s actually a Merl Saunders & Friends concert, but Bobby appears in a pink polo shirt at the 1:06:40 mark to close out the show with the finale “Johnny B. Goode.” And yes, you can actually see the old Haight and Stanyan McDonald’s behind Bobby and the band.

This is not the first hiccup in the 2022 street fair calendar. The How Weird Street Fair also did not happen this year, and that was a full cancellation, with less explanation. Whether its supply-chain issues, City Hall permitting lags, or some other variable, there are factors holding back street festivals this year in a way that attendees may find to just not be fair.

Related: Your SF Summer and Fall Street Fair Mega-Preview, Covering Every Weekend From June to October [SFist]

Image: Rose Marie J via Yelp

The SFPD announced the arrest of a suspect in a shooting that happened Sunday night in the Lower Haight, stemming from a verbal altercation between an older man and several younger men outside of a business.

The incident happened around 12:26 a.m. Monday, and it began with the altercation on the 500 block of Haight Street. As KPIX reports via the SFPD, a 19-year-old man and several friends argued with an unknown male, and then fled up Fillmore Street toward Page when the suspect pulled a gun.

The suspect then allegedly fired on them, hitting the 19-year-old. The victim was found near Fillmore and Page, and taken to the hospital. His injuries have reportedly left him permanently blind.

It's not clear how many shots were fired, but no one else was injured.

Investigators were able to quickly identify a suspect, and about four hours later they surround a home two blocks away, on the 300 block of Haight Street.

They soon arrested 58-year-old Ronald Melbourne without incident.

Melbourne was booked on charges including attempted homicide, assault with a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm, mayhem, and carrying a loaded firearm in public.

Any witnesses in the shooting or anyone with information is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444, or you can text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.

Photo: Google Street View

Famed local private investigator Jack Palladino was doing what he does best on Thursday afternoon when he was violently attacked by a pair of teens — he was gathering evidence.

Palladino, whose clients over the years included Bill Clinton, Courtney Love, and Robin Williams, had a brand new camera he was trying out last week, and according to his wife and fellow detective Sandra Sutherland he had ran outside their home on the 1400 block of Page Street to photograph some people he believed were up to "mischief" in the neighborhood. As the Chronicle reports, via Sutherland, Palladino took off his reading glasses and "bolted" out the door, just before the attempted robbery that cost him his life.

A pair of suspects, now identified as 24-year-old Lawrence Thomas of Pittsburg and 23-year-old Tyjone Flournoy of San Francisco, allegedly tried steal Palladino's camera from him — possibly after seeing him snap shots of them. And Palladino's own photos may have been pivotal in their arrests by the SFPD. Thomas was taken into custody Friday, and Fluornoy apparently fled the state and was arrested Saturday in Reno, and booked into SF County Jail on Sunday.

"They gunned him down [with the car] and tried to get the camera, which they failed to do,” Sutherland tells the Chronicle. “Because Jack wouldn’t let go."

Reportedly, Palladino, 76, tussled with the assailants and was dragged by their car. He also hit his head hard on the pavement, and was only briefly conscious as he lay in the street afterward. He was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and a brain bleed, and was taken off of life support on Sunday. As Sutherland said, "Jack’s a hard person to keep down. But I really think this is it."

She tells the paper that she told her unconscious husband on Saturday that his own photographs may help solve the case. "I said, 'Guess what, Jack, they got the bastards, and it was all your doing.'"

On Monday afternoon, KRON4 confirmed that Palladino had died from his injuries.

Neither suspect had been charged as of early Monday, but both were being held on suspicion of attempted robbery, aggravated kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy, false imprisonment and elder abuse, as well as an enhancement for causing great bodily injury. A homicide has now occurred, and the charges will change to reflect that.

Palladino's stepson Nick Chapman had earlier said that Palladino was simply out testing out his new camera when he the attempted robbery occurred.

Flournoy reportedly has an extensive rap sheet, and he was one of four suspects implicated in the December 2019 killing of Ronisha Cook, on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin. Ultimately, the DA's office only had enough evidence to charge two of the suspects with Cook's murder, though further charges could be pending against Flournoy in that case.

As the Associated Press reports, Palladino and Sutherland worked as a team out of their Upper Haight Victorian since the 1980s, working on behalf of the rich and powerful in a variety of high-profile cases.

Palladino rose to fame early when he was hired by the Hearst family following the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army, while he was still a law student at UC Berkeley. He would go on to be hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to squelch rumors of his extramarital affairs, and by Courtney Love to investigate journalists who were probing whether she had a role in the death of Kurt Cobain.

He was lauded for his role in helping defend tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1990s, conducting a counter-investigation that uncovered the industry's smear campaign against Wigand — which helped win the first successful litigation against Big Tobacco.

In a 1999 profile by the Examiner, Palladino is described as a PI who "built a reputation for aggressive investigations, an in-your-face style and the ability to neutralize adverse witnesses and spin hostile media." In some cases, this reportedly included intimidation and unsavory tactics to silence those were writing things that were unfriendly or damaging to his clients.

Palladino bristled at the word "intimidation," though, and said, "I don't need fear and intimidation. I don't carry a gun. I don't beat people up... I am sure that there are people who would say that I intimidated them because I said to them, 'You are lying.' I am sure there are witnesses who have felt intimidated because an unpleasant truth is about to come out about them."

Most recently, as the New York Post reported, Palladino was listed to be deposed last year by an accuser of Harvey Weinstein, in a case that followed the criminal trial that sent Weinstein to prison last February. Weinstein reportedly hired Palladino to investigate his accusers and journalists investigating him.

Sutherland tells the Chronicle that Palladino was working on one last case before joining her in retirement.

Photo: Nick Chapman via the Examiner

This post has been updated following confirmation of Palladino's death.

The Borderlands Books saga may well be turning a page to a novel solution that ensures the sci-fi and fantasy bookstore’s permanent survival. Not long after announcing the closure of the Valencia Street bookshop famed for its late, great hairless cat, Borderlands owner Alan Beatts told Mission Local that “Unless something really astonishing and perhaps almost biblical happens in San Francisco, we will not be able to pay rent in San Francisco.”

The good book has apparently allowed that “almost biblical” something to begin realizing its prophesy. A Wednesday morning report from Mission Local declares that Borderland Books is in the process of trying to buy the 1373 Haight Street building that’s currently home to Recycled Records (whose owner has plans to retire soon). Beatts is trying to raise $1.9 million — though the mixed-use retail and residential building is listed at $2.35 million — but tells Mission Local’s Laura Wenus that he’s already got $500,000 secured and another $300,000 pending.

“The only reason I have the nerve to do something like asking people to lend me $1.9 million — a dude who runs a bookstore — is the way that the sponsorship program worked out.” Beatts tells Mission Local. “I have no idea if this is going to work out, but it beats figuring we’ll be out of business in 2025, so I might as well take a stab at it.”

Beatts elaborates further on the Borderlands Books blog. “This week I made an offer on a building that is meant to be a permanent home for Borderlands,” he wrote last Friday. “But (you knew there had to be a ‘but’), due to a number of factors, not the least of which being a lower-than-normal down payment, the institutional lenders that I have talked with are not interested in financing the purchase. So, if I'm going to make this work, I need to find individuals who would be willing to lend directly to the company.”

Borderlands has survived its original planned closure thanks to a $100/year customer sponsorship program.

Hoodline notes that the current adjacent Borderlands Café would probably not survive the transaction. Hoodline’s Camden Avery also points out that Borderlands’ current Valencia lease runs through 2025. So if they can’t cobble together the $1.9 million in the two weeks required to buy the Recycled Records building, it doesn’t necessarily mean curtains for Borderlands.

If you have a few thousand (or million!) dollars laying around and want to invest, you can pop into Borderlands and ask for Beatts or email him at abeatts[at]borderlands-books[dot]com.

Related: The 12 Best Independent Bookstores In SF

The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as housing. The Chronicle reports on the deal, which is still not yet finalized, saying via a source that the city is agreeing to pay $10 million for the prime parcel, which could accommodate about 90 units of affordable housing.

In addition to being a neighborhood nuisance for many years — back in 2015 we reported on the 641 police calls that the location had gotten in just over a year — this McDonald's has long been a haven of drug activity, as well as a hangout for homeless youth who spend their days in Golden Gate Park and elsewhere in the Upper Haight.

The straw that broke this camel came in the form of a shooting last month, possibly drug-related, that came eight months after this McDonald's got a new franchisee who appeared committed to cleaning the place up. That led almost immediately to talk by the Board and the Mayor of trying to acquire the property and raze this restaurant for good.

Now the Mayor’s Office of Housing is nearing a deal with the property owner, McDonald's Corp., to do just that, and the timeline of when the restaurant may close is unclear.

They then will need to find a developer, like a non-profit developer, to construct low- and middle-income units here — many of which are going to have choice views over Golden Gate Park.

“If we can pull this deal off and build affordable housing there, it would be amazing,” says Supervisor London Breed to the Chronicle, which also notes that the last affordable project in the neighborhood, some senior housing by Buena Vista Park, was built a decade ago.

And you would think that those homeless kids would be upset at the loss of cheap food, but no — in true SF fashion, these homeless kids tell the Chron they like the Whole Foods across the street better anyway.

Previously: City Mulls Buying Troubled Haight McDonald's, Flipping It For Affordable Housing

Loved To Death, the well-known taxidermy and oddities shop in the Upper Haight that is kind of like a more goth version of Paxton Gate, is shutting down its spinoff next-door gallery space called LTD — and the owner tells Hoodline that the taxidermy is going to be the first to go as they consolidate the business back into the original storefront.

Opened in 2014 as a way to display more inventory, the LTD space at 1685 apparently became too much for owner Audra Kunkle. She opened the original creepy Victoriana store at 1681 Haight in 2008 after having a successful Etsy business selling jewelry, accessories, and taxidermy.

"Things in the world have changed," Audra tells Hoodline of the decision to wind down taxidermy sales. "With the current concerns regarding the laws that protect wildlife, this is something I personally feel needs to happen."

She also says she'll be picking up where she left off with her jewelry business as she took on all these other products and antiques, and she says, "I look forward to evolving with the times and keeping things new and interesting."

Kunkle and her oddball crew were featured in the Science channel's show Oddities: San Francisco in 2012-2013, often on the hunt for skeletons or taxidermied animals, as in the clips above and below.

Or there was the time a guy wanted them to find him something "undead" to carry as a prop to the Zombie Prom.

Or there was the glorious time they took a visit to the Pritikin Museum/Chenery House in Glen Park, the largest private estate in San Francisco which is owned by eccentric onetime adman, octogenarian Bob Pritikin, who still invites the public in to see his nutty collection of art and objects a few hours every week.

Making an obligatory stop for a photo op in the nexus of once-upon-a-time and still-sorta-kinda Hippieville, the Upper Haight, here is VW's concept car version of their upcoming minibus throwback, which also just made an appearance at the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach over the weekend. Volkswagen has batted around ideas for updates on their iconic minibus over the years, but now they've made it official that this model, dubbed the I.D. Buzz, will go into production in 2022, as Road & Track reports. The six-seater car offers a spacious interior the size of a decent SUV while offering the more modest size of a compact cargo van — and it's fully electric, with Level 3 autonomous control, meaning it can steer, stop, and accelerate on its own in certain conditions, but requires a driver in the driver's seat.

A Reddit user posted the photo above of the car showing up in the Haight on Monday, complete with its ambient body lighting, and judging from the photo and video below, the German carmaker has been taking full advantage of this California trip for some advance marketing materials — the original VW bus being as deeply associated as it is with hippies, and thus, San Francisco.

As Hoodline notes, the ID Buzz was photographed parked next to a shiny orange vintage VW bus, obviously as part of a photo or video shoot with the Haight-Ashbury as a backdrop.

Via the video, we see the new brand of hip San Franciscan VW driver, complete with man bun, beard, surfboard, record player, and corporate job, is depicted in the video... and yeah. I guess that's who they see buying this thing.

Spotted near Haight Ashbury this morning. #vw #vwbus #idbuzz

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As you can see, the steering wheel is some sort of newfangled version of a steering wheel that retracts when not in use, and the car has various bang and whistles, like what appears to be a bluetooth speaker stereo thing that pulls out like a boombox.

Also, the front seats turn around so you can face people in the backseat, though presumably this is not an option while in motion — though this could be anticipating a time when the car goes fully autonomous (and won't be recommended for the easily carsick).

Photo: Volkswagen

Photo: Volkswagen

The ID Buzz had previously been shown at auto shows in Detroit and Geneva, and following that, Volkswagen CEO Dr. Herbert Diess says there was an outpouring of requests from customers to actually make this car.

"The Microbus has long been part of the California lifestyle," Diess said in a release. "Now we're bringing it back by reinventing it as an electric vehicle."

VW will also be making a commercial version called the ID CARGO, which will be a zero-emission delivery truck option for businesses. And going into production first will be the ID hatchback, arriving in 2020, and previously shown here by Road & Track last September. That car features the same ambient lights along the front, steering column, and semi-autonomous functions, as well as being all-electric with a 370-mile range on one charge — it's basically their new-century answer to the Beetle, and they think it can go fully autonomous by 2025.

Related: Video: Go Inside A 1967 Tour Bus As It Gawks At Haight Street Hippies

Up in the Haight, the space that was formerly the beloved Red Vic movie theater, later briefly reborn as Second Act Marketplace, has undergone a new transformation and has just softly opened as The Bindery, a bookstore/cafe and event space from local bookseller Booksmith. Back in October we learned of Booksmith moving into the space at 1727 Haight Street, on the occasion of the bookshop's 40th anniversary, and shortly after Booksmith's winning Legacy Business status with the city — which it received along with two other veteran booksellers, Green Apple Books and Dog-Eared Books.

Now, as Hoodline reports, The Bindery is making its debut, with books on the shelves, some cozy chairs and couches, and a bar and event in the rear — cocktails, beer, and wine will be served starting in October (though it looks like wine and some other stuff may already be available).

Book buyer Camden Avery explains to Hoodline that "It's an experiment in a bookstore... where [the books] are all organized chronologically based on the date they were written in a continuum of world literature so that you can experience it differently." He says that the books selection will be an ever-evolving "index of converging and diverging stories that lead towards our literary, cultural moment."

Currently The Bindery is open from 2 to 8 p.m. daily and may have later hours on event nights.

For updates, follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

Previously: Booksmith Opens New Chapter With Legacy Business Status And Expansion To Second Act Space

A Haight Street fast-food restaurant that narrowly avoided a lawsuit regarding drug sales on its premises was the site of a shooting Thursday afternoon, raising questions over management's promises that illegal activity would be abated.

It was May of 2015 when McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook received a strongly worded letter from San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera regarding "numerous complaints regarding narcotics trafficking in and around" the McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan Streets. This, after the current owner of the location "refused to address the issues," Herrera said, hence their pursuit of the company, itself.

In an effort to avoid legal sanctions, McDonald's promised to add security cameras, to fence off parts of the property, to prohibit use of the parking lot after business hours, and to employ a security guard would be on site during all hours of operation. That same McDonald's was open for business Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p.m., when a male victim was shot on the restaurant's grounds, CBS 5 reports.

According to NBC Bay Area, the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting and was transported to an area hospital for treatment. The San Francisco Police Department has released few details on the victim, saying only that he is a 28-year-old male.

The Chron reports that no arrests have been made, and no suspect information has been released.

As previously noted, this McDonald's is no stranger to police activity — even that of the non-drug-dealer variety. In January of 2016 observant semi-homeless man Matthew Hay-Chapman spotted one of three escaped convicts from an Orange County prison waiting in line for coffee at that very restaurant. Hay-Chapman alerted police, who nabbed two of the three convicts (the third had turned himself in the day before).

Hay-Chapman ended up collecting a six-figure reward for his actions. That case was recently back in the news when a video made by one of the escaped convicts during their brief bout on the outside was released to the media, in which the two escapees arrested in SF celebrate their soon-to-end freedom.

Related: McDonald's At Haight And Stanyan In Big Trouble Over Drug Activity

The intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets — thought of by many as ground zero of the now 50-year-old Summer of Love, was home to a much less loving encounter Monday night, the San Francisco Police Department reports.

Police say that a Park Station officer on patrol came across a 61-year-old man with a significant laceration on his face at around 8 p.m. Monday

When asked what happened by the police officer, the man responded that he was "beat up" by a man in his 50s at the famous intersection.

The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries, which police say are not life threatening.

Police say that they were unable to locate the suspect in the aggravated assault. As of Tuesday morning, no arrests have been made and the suspect remains at large.

The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a violent driver today, after the man allegedly attacked a construction worker who was directing traffic in the Lower Haight.

NBC Bay Area has the tale, reporting that a female construction worker who was directing traffic near Haight and Steiner Streets was attacked by a male driver as she tried to do her job.

According to NBC, "The worker, who did not want to be identified, said words were exchanged, and then the driver got out of his car"

"He shoved me first; I went down, grabbed his T-shirt. After that, swing, swing, swing," the victim said. "I have brusies on my back, my ribs and stomach...That's where he was hitting me."

Two men who were driving past saw the altercation, with one telling NBC that "We were surprised more people weren't helping, and we had to put the car in park to help."

As the men and other passers-by intervened on her behalf, the suspect apparently fled -- but not before witnesses got photos of the man, photos that were then turned over to responding officers with the SFPD.

She then finished her shift, NBC reports.

Police say that they are now actively seeking the suspect, but as of publication time no arrests had been announced by the SFPD.

Related: Anyone Recognize This Road Rage Cyclist Who Slashed A Woman's Tire In The Mission?

A man walking on a Haight-area block was the victim of a random attack Wednesday afternoon, when a stranger attacked him with a knife as he walked down Stanyan Street.

Police say that the stabbing occurred at 1:10 p.m. Thursday, on the 700 block of Stanyan, which is between Waller and Haight Streets.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, whose Park Station is just steps from the site of the attack, the 35-year-old victim was walking on Stanyan when the suspect, a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s, came up from behind the victim and stabbed him.

The attack was not provoked, the SFPD emphasizes, and the suspect "is not known to" the victim.

The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, for treatment of injuries police say are not life-threatening. The suspect fled on foot, police say, and remains at large as of publication time.

Related: Haight Dispute Involving Dog And Skateboard Ends In Stabbing