Community Calendar: August 2022
Potrero View Staff Online8/2 TuesdayCareer: How to Ace Your Interview and Get the JoAvoid common mistakes and prepare for a successful interview. Presented by Lynn Winter Gross, MA, Jewish Vocational Services Career Advisor,…
Long Bridge Superhighway of Yesteryear
Joe Castrovinci San Francisco has long found creative ways to solve complex ways, including, in the 19th Century, development of the Long Bridge. “A lot of locals have never heard of it,…
Kit Fraser Officer-Involved Shooting at Owens and Mariposa Streets
Odin Thien-An Marin On May 19th, shots rang out under the Interstate-280 overpass at Mariposa and Owens streets. An altercation between two unhoused men turned into a roughly nine-minute struggle involving multiple knives…
Potrero Gateway Park Coming Soon
Jaxen Werne The right-of-way located between San Bruno Avenue, 17th Street and Vermont Street sits atop ancient serpentine bedrock, composed of California’s rare state rock, serpentinite. Homes that once occupied the area…
The Ramp Restaurant Looking for a Safe Harbor
Rebekah Moan The waterfront dive bar and restaurant, The Ramp, and accompanying boatyard, San Francisco Boatworks, continue to roll on rocky waves with a month-to-month lease. Located on Terry A. Francois Boulevard,…
Short Cuts
Election Results Much ink has been bled interpreting Chesa Boudin’s recall by 55 percent of San Francisco voters. Most believe that Boudin was a sacrificial lamb for pitchfork-carrying residents looking…
The Shirt
Steven J. Moss “Bye, J.C.,” I said, reaching up to hug the big man. “It was great to see you.” We disentangled and gave each other finalfist bumps. I watched as he rolled…
Letters to the Editor: July 2022
PV Staff Editor, It’s a bit late but the subject sticks in my head. Why did you accept the advertisement “SF Taxpayer Association June 7 Recommendations” in the May issue? It was…
Community Calendar: July 2022
7/1 FridayEnvironment: San Francisco “Bacardi” Street CleanupHelp cleanup Dogpatch. All supplies provided. Stay afterwards for a free round on the house and meet fellow volunteers. Sign up at TogetherSF or…
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…
Delancey Street Program Population Down During the Pandemic
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
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
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
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…
Crane Cove Park Going to the Dogs
Opened in October 2020, Crane Cove Park – located at 18th and Illinois streets – has quickly become a beloved neighborhood asset. But community members are concerned that the seven-acre…
Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Benefit District Elects Board
John Ferrannini Six new and two returning members were empaneled on the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District’s board last month. The eight – representing more than half the 15…
PG&E Disrupts Streets as Part of Distribution Expansion Project
Jessica Zimmer Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s undergrounding of two miles of new distribution lines in Potrero Hill has prompted concerns from residents about short-term parking shortages while the work is being…
Publisher’s View: Districts
Sad to say, we’ve drifted into a world in which this editor of a half-century old neighborhood newspaper feels a twinge of fear when contemplating writing about redistricting municipal supervisorial…
Short Cuts
Haney Wins District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney won last month’s special election for the District 17 State Assembly, trouncing David Campos, 63 percent to 27 percent, with fewer than 62,000…
