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…
Obituary
Rebekah Moan Abby Johnston April 3, 1940 – July 30, 2025 Abigail (Abby) Lee Johnston had a quiet charisma. She drew people to her with her quirky personality and big heart, according…
Hundreds of Studio Units Under Construction on De Haro Street
Moumita Chakraborty Shovel is hitting dirt at 300 De Haro Street, where an 11-story building consisting of 425 280- to 300-square-foot studios is being constructed. The residences will be “both furnished and…
Green Benefit District Renewed Until 2040
Jessica Zimmer Sixty-one percent of 1,968 property owners approved renewing the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) for another 15-year term, until 2040. Support was significantly lower than the…
SF-Marin Food Bank Preparing for Sharp Reduction in Federal Support
Tamala Motta The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, which has provided food insecure communities with access to nutrition for more than three decades, is facing new challenges amidst severe federal cuts to SNAP,…
Publisher’s View: Fulbright
Steven J. Moss In June most members of the Fulbright Student Program board resigned, after the Trump Administration blocked “a substantial number” of scholars from receiving grants. Like so many federal initiatives, the…
Short Cuts
PV Staff SPCA Clipped Last month, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced that it was laying off 32 people, 11 percent of its staff. Two-thirds of the cuts…
War Interrupts an Internship
Sara Moss Like many of my generation, after I graduated from college I returned home to live with my parents. For the ensuing year and a half, I worked part-time at Grattan…
SF Funeral Home Offers Cremation by Fire or Water
Pacific Interment Service, on Folsom Street, was founded by Francisco “Frank” Rivero in 1992, the year San Francisco experienced a peak in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related deaths, 1,641. “He cremated AIDS…
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…
Sabine Strauch Makes Wearable Art
Mission Bay resident Sabine Strauch didn’t intend to get into jewelry-making. The 27-year-old started oil painting as a teenager. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in…
Friends of Jackson Park Looking to Raise Another $10 Million
Kamesh Darisipudi 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…
Community Calendar: August 2025
8/1 Friday through 8/24 SundayTheater: SF PlayGround Free-Play FestivalThis four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 17 productions and 58 performances by artists from across the country. Presentations include improvised…
Neighborhood Mosaics
San Francisco is blessed with numerous publicly accessible, vibrant mosaics, several of which can be seen in Potrero Hill. The View’s history feature is sponsored by Rickshaw Bagworks.
Tattoo Museum Would Make Ink Truly Permanent
Mark Steensland San Francisco is home to lots of museums. The de Young and Legion of Honor feature “high” art. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not is kitschy. The Museum of Craft and…
Potrero Hill PTAs Adjust to SFUSD’s New Expenditure Rules
Last April, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) announced new restrictions on use of funds raised by Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), as well as municipal grants from such sources…
Summer Stride of Library Love
Jason Rosenbury “Summer Stride is our biggest program,” said San Francisco Public Library Mission Bay Branch Manager Jana De Brauwere. “We prepare all year for it.” As part of Summer Stride, the…
Publisher’s View: Loneliness
In 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General declared that America suffered from a “loneliness epidemic,” caused by shrinking participation in such communal outlets as Kiwanis Clubs and bowling leagues. Replacement activities…
Short Cuts
Behavior Changed Eighty-two Behavioral Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital residents, some long-timers, will have to move to enable the facility to be converted into a mental health…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Thank you, Paul McDonald for the best laugh I have had in ages. Paul’s Op-Ed about TV ads is right on, very clever and priceless. I’m sharing it with…
“Grizzly” Goings-On at Mission Creek Park
In 2021, the San Francisco Arts Commission invited proposals to create pieces for the Mission Creek Park Extension Public Art Project. The idea was to suggest a focal sculpture, or…
Islais Creek Bridge to be Replaced
At 75 years old, the Islais Creek Bridge is overdue to be replaced. Located on Third Street between Cargo Way and Marin Street, the link connects the Dogpatch and Bayview…
Brewery Still at Anchor
Matthew Dobner More than a year after Anchor Brewing’s purchase by Hamdi Ulukaya – originator of Chobani and behind expansion of La Colombe Coffee – the 495 De Haro Street facility remains…
Multiple Resources Available to Improve Literacy
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) wants at least 70 percent of third grade students to read at grade level by the beginning of the 2027 academic year. Three…
Yard-long Potrero Photos
‘Yard-long’ group panoramic photographs become popular in the early-1900s. The images were often taken with a Kodak Cirkut camera, which rotated on a tripod, making every face recognizable. The horizontal…
