Man Creates Bloody Mess on Potrero Hill
Thomas Hunter II On Thursday, December 18, at around 2 p.m., a woman parked her sports utility vehicle on Connecticut Street, just south of 17th Street, to take laundry out of the trunk.…
Work to Begin on 22nd Street Staircase
Jessica Zimmer Lanier Construction will begin building a long-planned-for 22nd Street staircase this month, replacing a steep dirt trail on a hillside between Missouri and Connecticut streets, north of Potrero Hill Recreation…
Props 2C: “Your Imagination is What We Carry in Stock”
Tamala Motta Tony Rivera, owner and operator of Props 2C, has been in the custom art business, creating larger than life props for special events, for almost three decades. “Your imagination is…
Publisher’s View: Politics
Steven J. Moss This year marks the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary. As Ken Burn’s twelve-hour The American Revolution documentary points out, while the rebellion was an act of national creation, it didn’t unfold…
Short Cuts
PV Staff General Hospital Murder On December 4, 2025, at approximately 3:04 p.m., San Francisco Police Department officers responded to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center regarding an assault. Officers…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Thank you for “Critics Unhappy with Short Term Rentals at Project Artaud,” in the March 2025 View. Unfortunately, the article had several significant omissions. As a nonprofit, Project Artaud…
Fiction: Girth Worms
This is the second of a three-part series, the first of which appeared in the December issue (tinyurl.com/yscuv2d9). Where I Got the Worms I got the worms from my sister;…
Miner’s Lettuce
Howard Isaac Williams With winter’s arrival, even in San Francisco’s mildly cool weather many plants turn dormant or die. But some species survive and a few even begin life near the end of…
Muttville Founder Sherri Franklin Retires
This month, Sherri Franklin, who founded Muttville in 2007, will mark her 70th birthday by retiring as Chief Executive Office of the nonprofit. Chief Operating Officer Laurie Routhier will become…
Creating a New ‘View’ for the Neighborhood
Lucie Tran and Finn Banbury Recently, we noticed something we previously wouldn’t have paid attention to: a young woman standing near the 16th Street Boba Guys order counter quietly flipping through The Potrero View. Watching…
Community Calendar: January 2026
Saturday 1/3Art: Legion of Honor Free DayEvery Saturday, the Legion of Honor offers free admission to its permanent galleries to San Francisco Bay Area residents, featuring family artmaking, gallery guides,…
Minnesota Street Grove Reopens as Urban Oasis
Danny Pham A renovated Minnesota Street Grove reopened last summer. The green space, tucked between 24th and 25th streets, is largely the creation of community efforts. “This redevelopment and reopening has been…
Pier 68 to be Used to Dock Recreational Vehicles
District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton’s condemnation of a municipal plan to store towed recreational vehicles (RVs) at Pier 68 was the first time many Dogpatch residents heard about the idea.…
Daniel Webster to Continue General Education Track, for Now
Chaitanya Tondepu On a quiet stretch of Missouri Street in early October, families at Daniel Webster (DW) Elementary attended a community meeting led by San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) communications team…
Fiction: Girth Worms
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I’d just come back from India and had lost a lot of weight on account of a worm I’d picked up…
Short Cuts
Bathroom in Yard The Potrero Yard, built in 1915, spans more than four acres, edged by Bryant, 17th, Hampshire, and Mariposa streets. One hundred years ago the two-story structure located…
Annex-Terrace Redevelopment Problems Persist
Mark Steensland The plan to rebuild the Potrero Annex and Terrace houseing complex began in 2005, as part of HOPE-SF, a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD)…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, “Pakistan,” by Steven Moss, in the November View, kindled memories of my own experiences in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1989 to 1997, when I’d go for two to four…
Hill Resident Sews Gifts
Stephanie Lam Barbara Zerbe’s Potrero Hill garage is packed with embroidery machines. Zerbe owns Barbara’s Embroidery, which she operates from her Arkansas Street home. The 62-year-old relies on her Tajima machines to…
Dogpatch-based Architect Olle Lundberg Remembered for His Design Talent, Kindness
Rebekah Moan Many adjectives can be used to describe Dogpatch-based architect Olle Lundberg, who passed away unexpectedly on October 31, 2025. The two that crop up most often are “kind” and “exceptional…
History Night at Pier 70
The 26th annual Potrero Hill & Dogpatch History Night brought more than 350 attendees, the most ever, to the handsomely repurposed Building 12 at Pier 70 last month. At the…
Community Calendar: December 2025
Now through 12/13 SaturdayArt: In Light Years Snow, fire, and the sublime power of nature anchor San Francisco photographer Andrew Owen’s exhibition In Light Years. His images capture Northern California’s…
Goat Hill Pizza Turns 50, the Pizza Remains Fresh
On November 16, 2025, Goat Hill Pizza turns a half-century old. When five friends – Joel and Loris Lipski, Karen Clark (Monely), Ruthann Dickinson, and Philip (Phil) DeAndrade – first…
Y Combinator Draws Techies to Dogpatch
S Anne Steinberg Dogpatch, Mission Bay, Mission Creek, and Potrero Hill have emerged as San Francisco’s latest technology node. Uber re-located to Mission Bay in 2021. OpenAI, situated in Mission Creek since 2015,…
More than $20 Million Spent Annually to Maintain Street Trees, Fix Sidewalks
Prior to 2016, property owners shouldered most of the responsibility for caring for San Francisco’s 125,000 street trees; plants growing in “basins” cut-out from the sidewalk. That changed with passage…