Last month, 50 Potrero Hill residents voted on three alternatives to remaking Jackson Park, with a majority supporting expanding the park onto Carolina Street. Concerns over parking dissuaded most voters…
What was once a dumping ground is being transformed into an oasis for Potrero Hill and Dogpatch residents. “It was an abandoned lot filled with garbage and trash, really rough…
It was a Sunday morning and my then four year-old son, Connor, was getting restless. I offered several of our regular parks – Jackson, McKinley, and Potrero Recreation Center –…
I had a call in the Tenderloin. I knew it was going to be a no sale once I pulled up to a rundown tenement building on Ellis Street. I…
By Chris Block and Steven J. Moss More than 50 people gathered at Peet’s Coffee & Tea’s Minnesota Street offices to discuss a proposed 24th Street Navigation Center, just west…
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has embarked on an initiative to research and analyze the effectiveness of the Residential Parking Permit (RPP) policy in Dogpatch. Part of the…
In many ways Potrero Hill exemplifies San Francisco as a whole, particularly in terms of its population mix and income. It’s not predominantly European-American, African-American, or any other ethnicity; not…
The month of June is known for weddings and primaries, both of which can lead to happily ever after or quite the opposite. The June 7 election is marked by…
Over the past year alone, a cascading set of trends has prompted the closure of 10 Bay Area hospitals outside San Francisco, according to longtime health care consultant Walter Kopp.…
San Francisco is home to three clinics, located in Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill and the Haight, that offer abortion services. Two other facilities, in the Outer Mission and Union Square,…
Securing answers from San Francisco law enforcement agencies – which are engaged in internecine bickering over a host of issues, including allegations of racial profiling by police officers – about…
Dr. Nancy Milliken, founder and director of the University of California, San Francisco’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, has spent her career advancing the health and well-being of…
With this month’s opening of a new nine-story building that includes spacious rooms for labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum care, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) combines well-designed facilities with…
Kiana Underwood’s five-Yelp-star floral design studio, Tulipina, is located on Vermont Street. Tulipina creates floral arrangements for “bespoke weddings,” in which everything is custom-made. “I do lots of weddings and…
Kristina Geier opened BerryClean in Potrero Hill last fall. She was raised by parents whose professional lives revolved around the travel and hospitality industries; her first job was with Hilton…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Verdi Club, a working class social club whose historic 1935 building sits discreetly at 2424 Mariposa Street, a half-block west of Potrero…
Wisconsin Street resident Margaret Keyes was born two months before the Great Depression engulfed the nation. Growing up in San Francisco’s Sunset District during those tough times, Keyes trained herself…
Dawn Porter, who lives on the 300 block of Missouri Street, has directed several award-winning, social justice documentaries. Gideon’s Army (2013, HBO) recounts the personal stories of three young lawyers,…
Potrero Branch Library Art Show to Launch on May 7 By Marci Mills The public is invited to celebrate the opening of the 58th Annual Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition on…
Two San Francisco moms, Debbie Findling and Abby Porth, who both experienced fertility losses, co-created a project to develop a “memory garden” that’ll provide a place for reflection and mourning…
On January 1, 2016, The California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act went into effect. The Act is intended to equip students with information to protect their reproductive health,…
According to Joi Jackson-Morgan, when 3rd Street Youth Center clients discovered the health risks associated with beauty products by looking at the Environmental Working Group’s SkinDeep Cosmetics Database, they were…
The MRC Rebels Girls Basketball Club was founded in 1988 by Oscar Jimenez, who saw a lack of basketball opportunities for San Francisco girls and sought the City’s help to…
While living on Potrero Hill, Debbie Findling found it challenging to have a second child. Her daughter, Sara, who weighed less than five pounds when she was born, was two-years-old.…
Frederick H. Van Dusen, longtime resident of Potrero Hill’s northwestern slope, passed away of natural causes on Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at the age of 81. Van, as he was…
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