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Outside the pawnshops, youngsters in droopy clothes nod at passers-by, hoping for a sale.
Because of special taxing powers bestowed by state law, San Francisco has tens of millions of dollars to spend to make this piece of skid row less of a dead end.
But that same state law has given Sixth Street a project area committee whose members have sweeping governmental powers -- and are absolutely consumed by petty personal vendettas.
Post election, Antoinetta III is hoping for the best.
"Hopefully all this slate identification will fade with time and we can all get together," she said. "We have a chance to get together and forget about all that and get together and get some things done. This is going to be kind of new for me, but hopefully we'll be able to accomplish something, and develop some ideas of our own that make sense."
Antoinetta's statements represent a dramatic change of tone from her vitriolic election crusade. But the change is not altogether surprising. It's the sort of measured, constructive tone one would hope for from a newly-elected public official. It is a tone almost befitting royalty.
