Division Street Documents Street Life
Joey Perotti In 2016 San Francisco hosted Super Bowl 50. Then Mayor Ed Lee ordered the San Francisco Police Department to move those living on the streets from places they might be…
June 2022
Delancey Street Program Population Down During the Pandemic
Rebekah Moan Criminal sentencing policies swing one way and then the other, but demand for entry into the Delancey Street residential training center for drug abusers, ex-convicts, and the unhoused remains the…
Smuin Center for Dance Invites Potrero Hill to Move it
Vivien Wang Shortly before the start of the pandemic, Smuin Contemporary Ballet and the Smuin Center for Dance relocated to 1830 17th Street, between Rhode Island and De Haro. The Ballet was…
Publisher’s View: Affordable Decarbonization
Steven J. Moss California faces a conundrum. We want to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), principally by replacing fossil fuels used in transportation and buildings with electricity generated by renewable energy. Yet,…
VOTE: June 7, 2022
PV Staff United States Representative, District 11: Nancy Pelosi. Our hometown congressional hero is awesome, and remains if not at, close to, political peak power. That said, please Nancy, retire gracefully when…
Traditional Chinese Medicine Taught in Potrero Hill
Lee Stuart Eastern medicine – which focuses on treating the person rather than the symptoms – has been practiced for more than 3,000 years, with medical texts that date to the Han…
Pelton Cottages Evidence of Lived History in Dogpatch
Steven Fidel Herraiz Passersby may have noticed two rows of identical bungalows huddled together on Tennessee and Minnesota streets near 22nd. These are Pelton Cottages – 1002, 1004, 1008, 1010, 1012, and 1014…
Community Calendar : June 2022
Potrero View Staff Now through 6/11 SaturdayArt: The Mail Art Club ExhibitionAt the beginning of the pandemic Creativity Explored artists mailed one another handmade postcards to stay connected, an experimental exchange of art…
Art Feature: June 2022
“Dusk on 17th” (on right) is taken from a photograph of 17th Street captured September 2020. The leftmost restaurant depicted is Connecticut Yankee. © Andrew Chou-Belden
Chatz Bids Potrero Hill a Fond Farewell
There’s been a coffee shop at 301 Arkansas Street for the last 22 years. Not anymore. Masoud, who owned and operated Chatz since 2005, reluctantly had to close the business…