Annex Demolished
Mark Steensland Potrero Annex’s demolition is finally underway, a major turning point in the site’s slow crawl toward the rebirth promised by HOPE SF when it was launched nearly 20 years ago.…
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Our Deadliest Streets
The Department of Public Health (DPH) has released the latest High Injury Network (HIN) map, using 2024 data to identify San Francisco’s deadliest streets. The good news is that Potrero…
Low Voter Turnout for 2026 Green Benefit District Elections
Jessica Zimmer In March the Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) issued 1,400 ballots to property owners who contributed taxes to the district. Just one hundred were returned, less…
Landsharks on Goat Hill
Jesse Dee If you’re driving on Potrero Hill this summer and a kid passes you by like they just got shot out of a cannon, you’re not hallucinating. The world’s fastest skateboarders…
New Trees, Perhaps Not Preferred by the Community, Planted at Hill Garden
Tamala Motta “Rec and Park Fined for Felling Community Trees,” in the June 2025 View, told the story of San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s (RPD) illegal removal of apple and fig…
Local Publicist Retires
Jim Van Buskirk “After four decades in Bay Area film publicity, Karen Larsen steps back; and the work goes on,” stated the press release, which went on to explain that Potrero Hill’s indefatigable…
Something New at New Potrero Market
Like many other Potrero Hill residents, life began elsewhere for Nader Hanhan and his wife, Summer. She was just five years old when her family emigrated from Palestine in the…
Potrero Hill: Changed, But Still the Same
Kamesh Darisipudi San Francisco steadily, and sometimes rapidly, changes. New restaurants arrive and existing ones close. Families move in and out. Structures are torn down, replaced by new buildings. Daniel Wall grew…
Magazines Served Alongside Coffee, Ceramics
S Anne Steinberg Once ubiquitous, particularly Downtown, the number of newsstands in San Francisco has decreased precipitously with the onset of the internet age. But a handful of magazine sellers have refused to…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Annex-Terrace Redevelopment Problems Persist
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)…
History Night at Pier 70
PV Staff 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…
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…
Cracking the Code of Life from the Top of Potrero Hill
Danny Pham Most mornings, Katie Pollard walks from her Connecticut Street home to her Owens Street laboratory; a pleasant commute that bridges two worlds. At one end, neighbors chat over coffee, plan…
Christopher’s Books A Neighborhood Bestseller
Alina Ferguson Christopher’s Books occupies a first-floor space in a gracious Victorian building on 18th Street that one hundred years ago housed a pharmacy called Wilsons. Traces of this past are imprinted…
Highways Increase Air Pollution-Related Health Risks in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill
Dogpatch and Potrero Hill are sandwiched between two freeways: Highway 101 and Interstate 280. These roadways not only define local geography but create the conditions for a constant hum of…
Potrero Annex Inhabitants Await Resolution; Delayed Demolition Date
For more than a year, the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) has tried to evict upwards of two dozen families that the agency claims are living illegally at Potrero Annex,…
Camaraderie: The Heart of Potrero Hill’s Fire Department
Bradley Akers knew he wanted to be a fireman since he was a young boy. Today, he works as an H-2 firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department, assigned to…
Saints Dance in Potrero Hill
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project The architecture of Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro Street, blends Russian Orthodox, Japanese Shinto, and Craftsman styles. Long lines of people can be seen at the…
Cathryn “Cat” Blum: Building Community on Potrero Hill
Kayla Whitehouse Cat Blum has long led the movement to transform the 22nd and Carolina streets intersection into a community gathering space. Blum has lived next to the median for the last…
Friends of Jackson Park Looking to Raise Another $10 Million
More than a decade ago Friends of Jackson Park (FoJP) and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department (SFRPD) launched an effort to renovate and enlarge Jackson Park. The redesign…
