Dogpatch Parking Pilot Slow to Get Off the Ground
Rebekah Moan It’s been more than a year since the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) proposed a pilot in Dogpatch to test interventions that might make parking in the neighborhood easier.…
June 2017
Summer Time Means Work for San Francisco Teenagers
Brett Yates The City and County of San Francisco is home to roughly 42,000 teenagers. This summer, as in season’s past, many of City’s young people are in the hunt for employment…
Aperto Closes in the Face of Multiple Challenges
Jacob Bourne Aperto, until April 30 located at 1434 18th Street, went out of business last month after 35 years of serving locally-sourced food for brunch, lunch and dinner. Jesse James opened…
Noah’s Ark
Steven J. Moss One of the most famous stories in the Bible occurs in Genesis, in a passage commonly known as “Noah’s Ark.” In it, God, enraged over human behavior, decides to wipe…
Short Cuts
Potrero View Staff Editorial Elect! The race to succeed Fiona Ma on the state’s troubled tax board got easier for District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen, after former assemblyman Rich Gordon dropped out last month.…
Letters to the Editor
Potrero View Staff Editor, I read with interest “Large Mixed-Use Project Delayed by Litigation,” in last month’s View, which I found to be unbalanced and another example of advertisements for the “development at…
OP-ED: Pier 70 Will Contribute to the Community
Susan Eslick In the more than 20 years I’ve lived and worked in Dogpatch I’ve seen a lot of housing, transportation and demographic changes. Through it alls the neighborhood has had a…
Residents Advocate for New Dogpatch Center for Arts and Culture
Matthew Kaplan In an effort to increase arts and community-related offerings in Dogpatch, a group of residents are working to create the Dogpatch Center for Arts and Culture, or “D Center.” Last…
Armistead Maupin Featured at Queer Film Festival
Jim Van Buskirk Frameline 41, the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema, opens on June 15 with the West Coast premiere of The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. Maupin described the…
City Adds Shelter Beds
Chris Block and Steven J. Moss District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronan is pushing to open a 100-plus bed Navigation Center near the corner of South Van Ness Avenue and Cesar Chavez Street this month. At two…
Board of Regents Approves UCSF Center in Dogpatch
Last month, the University of California Board of Regents Finance and Capital Strategies Committee unanimously approved UC San Francisco’s proposed Child, Teen and Family Center, to be located at 2130…
What’s in a Name: Potrero Hill’s Parks and Schools
Jessica Zimmer Enola D. Maxwell, which used to be the name of a middle school campus, continues as the moniker of the 655 De Haro Street San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)…
Six Generations Make Potrero Hill Home
Eileen Bray It’s rare for a single family line to reside in the same home for more than century. It’s even more unusual for such continual occupancy to occur in the City…
Carolina and 20th Streets Stairway Commemorated as “Jack Balestreri Way”
Last April, a plaque was installed to officially commemorate the Carolina and 20th streets stairway as “Jack Balestreri Way,” after the man who built them. The late Jack Balestreri was…
Pier 70 Shipyard Closes
After 150 years of continuous operation, the shipyard at Pier 70 shut down last month. The closure came less than a year after BAE Systems transferred the repair facility to…
A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs – June 2017
At the start of John Cheever’s classic short story “The Swimmer” the main character is lounging in the backyard of a friend’s home in upper-middle-class suburbia, where everyone has a…
Speakeasy to Continue
Michael Iacuessa Speakeasy, a pioneer in the emergence of the Bay Area microbrewery scene, purveyors of Prohibition Ale and Big Daddy IPA, was saved from closing its doors last month when it…
Ninth Annual Peace March
PV Staff The ninth annual Peace March, coordinated by the Equal Opportunity Council of Potrero Hill, was held last month. Daniel Webster, Starr King, and Live Oak elementary schools participated in the…
Community Calendar: June 2017
Now through September Photography: Landscapes Tom Reed’s black and white images give a bow to Zen, a nod to Ansel Adams, and an open heart to the Earth’s intense natural…
Gold, Chapter Twenty-Two
“You guys both look like shit,” said Stan. “Up late at the bicycle polo tournament? Playing four square at House of Air?” “Not exactly,” said Stephanie, holding her double expresso…