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The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet

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The United Nations Plaza

This is the biography of a hundred thousand square feet. At the heart of san francisco, there is a cross roads where market street meets the civic cent it is called the united nations plaza or less formally, urination plaza. For most of the past three decades, it has been san francisco's most public theatre of squalor, misery and sickness. You could go there any hour of the day and see needles liquor bottles, people fighting, people irinating and deficating in that fountain there. I've seen people shoot up at one end, go to the other end and die. People don't stroll down streets and sit and, you know, and play boco. That

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