The Good Life Grocery Feeds Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill
Jessica Zimmer Potrero Hill residents Kayren Hudiburgh and Lester Zeidman have long nurtured The Good Life Grocery, a natural foods store located at 1524 20th Street. Together, the duo weathered the COVID…
Day on the Green returns to Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park
The 2023 Day on the Green neighborhood celebration will be held on August 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park, 801 Arkansas Street.…
Community Calendar: August 2023
Potrero View Staff 8/4 FridayDance: Bollywood Dance at Salesforce ParkHailing from the dream dance city of Mumbai and Amritsar, also home to Bollywood and Holy Vibes, these energetic, charismatic, and fun dance instructors-performers-entertainers,…
Potrero Hill Parklets, Here to Stay?
Odin Thien-An Marin Amidst the pandemic numerous curbside parklets appeared along 18th Street, providing restaurants with a vital lifeline and customers the ability to dine al fresco. The emergency Shared Spaces program enabled…
Potrero Annex-Terrace Mismanaged by Private Firm
Rebekah Moan Eugene Burger Management Corporation (EBMC) is mismanaging the Potrero Annex-Terrace and Sunnydale housing complexes, according to a San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) report. Located around 26th and Connecticut streets, the…
Vermont Cleaners Struggles During Retrofit
Vermont Cleaners, located at 600 Vermont Street, has been in Benson Xu’s family since 1986. The business has survived an earthquake, recessions, and multiple robberies. Now as the building in…
Publisher’s View: Go Fish
Steven J. Moss Phishing texts – smishing – regularly pop up on our cellphones. These obscure messages are purportedly from people who know us, or sent by innocent mistake, but their real purpose…
Short Cuts
Potrero View Staff Editorial Anchor Away Julie Christensen, executive director of the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District, who turns 70 this month, will be leaving that position in November to “rewire.”…
Neighborhood Leaders Nurture Civic Engagement
The View canvassed its readers to identify residents who volunteer to improve their community. Below we describe the efforts of some of these individuals; the paper welcomes nominations of others.…
Community Calendar: July 2023
7/1 SaturdayCommunity: Thrive City Block PartyFeaturing carnival-style attractions, local food and beverage vendors, roaming entertainers, a pet costume contest, live entertainment, Golden State Warriors shop sidewalk sale, and more! 11…
Shipwrecked in San Francisco
Chaitanya Tondepu Sirens and castaways, drag and modern dance, a shipwreck in a nightclub. We Build Houses Here, performed last May at Oasis, showcased each of these elements intermingling like tidal forces.…
Bert Hsu Academy to Offer Kindergarten to Eighth Grade Classes in Potrero Hill
Vivien Wang Opening this fall, the Bertrand D. Hsu American & Chinese Bicultural Academy will offer “quality, rigorous, affordable and bicultural education” to kindergarten to eighth grade students. The school will be…
City Sees Slow Rise in Pet Adoptions as Cost of Care Increases
Fewer animals are being adopted from San Francisco Animal Care & Control (SFACC) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, 1,354 and 1,248 found a home,…
Starr King Open Space Elects Two New Board Members
Two new members were elected to the Starr King Open Space board of directors last month. Justin Briggs and Daniel Rozynski will each serve three-year terms, with the opportunity to…
Impulse Labs Cooking with Electricity
Located at 1409 Minnesota Street, Impulse Labs launched last fall with an ambitious mission: to make it easier to electrify homes with better appliances. The goal originated as part of…
Publisher’s View: Worry
PV Staff “At least now that your kids are well beyond grownup,” I said to my 88-year-old mom, “you don’t have to worry about them anymore.” “I still worry,” she retorted. “I…
Short Cuts
Parking Pain Dogpatch, along with Fisherman’s Wharf, is first in line to be subjected to longer metered parking hours. Starting in July, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will extend…
Starr King Elementary School Receives Mixed Reviews from Students
Laura Quiroga Starr King Elementary, located adjacent to Starr King Open Space, offers a Mandarin Dual Immersion (MI) program, two classes for each grade, and a General Education (GE) track. Roughly 360…
Institute of Contemporary Art Works to Interpret Cultural Moments
According to The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s (ICA SF) founding director, Ali Gass, the always-free, non-collecting museum was conceived amidst the depths of the pandemic and racial reckonings…
Community Calendar: June 2023
6/3 SaturdayBooks: Book Sale Block PartyJoin Friends of the San Francisco Public Library for a day of literary fun! Featuring more than 10,000 books, comics, media and vinyl on sale,…
Dogpatch Family’s Entire Belongings Stolen from U-Haul
At the end of March, Deanna Borbon and René Felbermayr packed a U-Haul to move to Los Angeles with their two small children and left it parked on Texas Street…
Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition Returns after Brief Hiatus
Amateur and professional artists alike will have a chance to showcase their work at the Annual Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition hosted by the Potrero branch library. First launched in 1955,…
Dogpatch, Potrero Hill Beset with Unmaintained Right-of-Ways, Known as “Unaccepted Streets”
Residents of southeastern neighborhoods are frustrated by chronic municipal neglect of unaccepted streets, public right-of-ways also known as “dirt” or “paper” roads. These pathways may be narrow, have rough surfaces,…
Publisher’s View: Lonely
“I’m bored,” my adolescent self would periodically announce to my mother, who’d generally respond by telling me to go play outside without lifting her eyes from whatever book she was…
Short Cuts: May 2023
Bus Fires A dozen “smallish” privately owned buses went up in flames last month beneath Interstate 280 in Dogpatch. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in just under an hour. No injuries…
