Two Outer Richmond fixtures have closed — Noodle in a Haystack at 4601 Geary Blvd and the Contract Postal Unit at 837 Clement Street — while nine businesses on Balboa Street host a Pride weekend crawl today.

After four years at 4601 Geary Boulevard near 10th Avenue, Noodle in a Haystack has gone. The restaurant built a following for its ramen — and for the particular difficulty of getting a seat, with 12 chairs and a prix-fixe tasting menu that made reservations a running challenge in the city. Last month, the owners told the San Francisco Chronicle that the format proved unsustainable; they are planning a new concept at Thrive City in Mission Bay. City permit records show no alteration filings at 4601 Geary, meaning the space is vacant without a named next tenant as of this writing.

Two blocks north, the Contract Postal Unit at 837 Clement Street near 10th Avenue closed June 18. A sign in the window, as Mission Local reported this week, indicated that 837 Clement was among several CPUs being shut down as part of a broader U.S. Postal Service contraction. Contract Postal Units are small businesses — a convenience store, a packaging shop — operating as post offices under USPS partnership, and their closures are not announced the way a branch closure would be. The Clement Street unit is simply gone.

The Outer Richmond, per DataSF, saw nine eviction notices in the last 90 days and 390 311 service requests in the past seven days — the ordinary data signature of a dense, busy neighborhood.

This weekend, the Balboa Street corridor is otherwise occupied. Nine businesses are hosting Queer Out Here today, June 27, a Pride weekend crawl along the commercial stretch. The Eye & Hand Society is offering live music; the Balboa Theater is running a free screening of "Just Kids," a documentary about growing up transgender during the Trump administration; the Butterfly Joint, a children's cafe and woodworking studio at 4411 Cabrillo Street near 45th Avenue, opened with a children's reading this morning and closes with a free comedy show at 5 p.m. Participating businesses are donating to LGBTQ organizations. On the same corridor, Constance Tea — which mills its matcha fresh on Japanese stone mills, a first for the Bay Area its owners say — has opened and drawn lines down the block.

For westsiders with a different weekend agenda: the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is reporting another bloom of its corpse flower, the locally notorious Amorphophallus titanum that typically returns only every few years.

The storefront at 4601 Geary, for now, is quiet.