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If this building looks like a ship, it should!

First time for everything. I've had the usual spam emails pretending to be Elon Musk, Bill Gates, the rest of the billionaire grift roster — but I just got one claiming to be from a pro wrestler, which is a new one on me. Anyone else get one?

Richardsonian Romanesque

More: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalecruse/53174058199/in/album-72177720311033040/

I live in Bayview–Hunters Point and have been quietly documenting the neighborhood on Flickr for years. Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West just published a substantial piece on BVHP — the decades-long Superfund cleanup at the former naval shipyard, the contractor that doctored up to 90% of their soil samples, the plutonium the Navy sat on for 11 months, and the green gentrification pushing out the Black residents who lived through all of it.

They ended up using 10 of my photos throughout, including the lead image looking across 3rd Street toward the Shipyard.

Honestly, it's a strange feeling to see the neighborhood I've been wandering around with a camera framed inside a story this serious — and even stranger to have my photos helping carry it. The piece itself is worth your time if you care about what's happening out here. The history alone (Cold War radiation experiments, 980 tons of radioactive waste dumped in 1956, a shipyard that was once the heart of Black San Francisco) is wild, and the gentrification numbers are brutal: home prices in BVHP up 609% since 1996, nearly triple the national rate.

Article: https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2026/after-decades-of-environmental-cleanup-rebuilding-can-cement-inequalities/