Potrero Hill Democratic Club Nurtures Activism
Rebekah Moan Just as political movements ebb and flow, so too has the Potrero Hill Democratic Club. First founded in 1987, community members were galvanized by Hill resident, and Assembly member, Art…
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Pennsylvania Street Gardens Cultivates Community
Moumita Chakraborty For eighteen years, Annie Shaw, her husband Matt Petty, and other Potrero Hill residents have dedicated themselves to beautifying and maintaining land that’d been neglected and filled with detritus. As…
One Hundred Years of Boostering
Jessica Zimmer One hundred years ago, the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association – the Boosters – first started promoting the interests of what at the time was a working-class immigrant enclave. An early…
Farley’s Coffee Shop’s Co-Owner Still Missing
Mark Steensland Amy Hillyard’s family and friends continue their search for the 53-year-old mother of two and co-owner of Farley’s Coffee. Hillyard disappeared from her Oakland home more than five months ago,…
The Painter on Kansas Street
Dana Pearlman In August 1971, The Potrero View published “Artists and the Community,” which included Jean Halpert-Ryden, photographed by Bill Brinton seated in front of a large painting at an exhibit or…
Art Agnos Way
PV Staff Potrero Hill resident Art Agnos was honored with a part of Connecticut Street now sporting his name. The July renaming ceremony attracted political dignitaries, along with long time fans of…
The Best Gardener on Potrero Hill
Anne Sumers, M.D. Last Spring the front yard of a yellow cottage on Arkansas Street was decorated with a burst of roses, tended to by David Garcia. “David is the best gardener in…
Neighborly Kindness
It was a windy day, and I was trying to stuff too many birthday balloons into the back of an SUV. It was like cramming an octopus into a suitcase:…
Annex Demolished
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.…
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
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
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…
