Carpet Chronicles, II
Paul McDonald My 11 a.m. was at a rundown house in the Excelsior, not far from Highway 280. No one answered the door. I called the potential customer, who showed up about…
Boys and Girls Club Offers Children a Place to Play
Jessica Nemire Three women, Mary and Alice Goodwin and Elizabeth Hammersley, started the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in the state of Connecticut in 1860. They wanted to give kids a…
Hill Resident Judy Baston Expert at Tracing Family History
Jim Van Buskirk Longtime Potrero Hill resident Judy Baston’s passionate commitment to Jewish genealogy earned her the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, awarded at the Association’s annual…
Cork Marcheschi and the Fifty Foot Hose
Nikolas Zelinski The electronic rock band Fifty Foot Hose emerged from San Francisco’s iconic 1960s music scene. Its music, including its sole album, Cauldron, issued in 1967, was influenced by a mixture…
Fiction: A Cure for Writer’s Block
Greg Roensch Trippy slammed his laptop shut and hurled it against the wall. The two cats didn’t move. Mischief, the asthmatic Siamese, opened his one good eye before falling back asleep. Hemingway,…
November 2015 Library News
Jenny Scholten PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS Write Your Own Will: Stuart Bronstein, estate planning and probate lawyer in San Francisco for more than 30 years, helps participants create a fully functional will. Bring…
Video Clips, Citizen Tips Help Police Solve Violent Crime Cases
Keith Burbank Crime & Safety Report — Sponsored by Mainline Security A front page article in last month’s View cited government statistics that indicate that less than half of all murders committed…
Better than 50/50 Chance of Getting Away with Murder in SF
Julie Henderson Nationwide, the country’s homicide closure rate stands at just 64 percent, down nearly 30 percent from 50 years ago, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data. Based on information gathered…
State Provides New Way to Pay for Infrastructure
A state law that took effect this year could provide a method to funnel money to Southside neighborhoods to finance such things as parks, transportation, affordable housing, childcare facilities, and…
Hill’s Public Schools Begin Year with Renovations, Innovations
Indrani Sengupta Two months into the 2015 school year Potrero Hill’s public schools are completing or commencing campus renovations and modernizations. Some schools have introduced new courses, one is piloting a revamped…
Publisher’s View: Home
Steven J. Moss Housing is today’s top conversational topic at upper middle class dinner parties in San Francisco. It’s displaced jockeying over whose been to the best, most recently opened, restaurant; discussions over…
Letters to the Editor
Potrero View Staff Editorial Editor, Apropos of “Drought Impacts,” in the August issue, Paul McDonald should simply submerge his entire hose in the tub, make sure all the air is out of it and…
OP-ED: Proposition F: Fix the Airbnb Mess
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein City Hall asserts it’s protecting neighborhoods from short-term residential rentals to tourists, like those offered by Airbnb. It claims it’s protecting the availability and affordability of scarce housing. I wholeheartedly…
Short Cuts
The Center Won’t Hold By well before Thanksgiving, Mission Bay Development, with support from the California Department of Transportation, plans to rip-out the driveway in front of Center Hardware &…
Community Building Continues As Annex-Terrace Awaits Actual Rebuilding
Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli On a sunny day last summer the crisp smell of fresh vegetables could be detected on Texas Street’s southern slope, as families and individuals harvested produce at the Texas Street…
Rhode Island and Wisconsin Streets to Get Greener
Jessica Zimmer Property owners on the 800 block of Rhode Island Street and 900 block of Wisconsin Street have partnered with Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) to make their streets a…
Democratic Club Takes No Position on Proposition D, Despite Lobbying by Agnos, Giants
Last month the Potrero Hill Democratic Club (PHDC) hosted discussions on upcoming local ballot propositions, as well a mayoral debate, though without the incumbent. The conversations often pivoted off of…
Plans for Potrero Power Plant Site Being Generated
Guest Contributor San Francisco’s last significant fossil fuel electricity generating station, the Potrero Power Plant, was shuttered in 2010. More than five years later, developers are looking at the facility’s footprint with…
Nabe Struggles to Keep Afloat
Rebekah Moan Potrero Hill Neighborhood House’s executive director, Edward Hatter, lies awake at night worrying about what would happen should the facility close its doors. “It scares the hell out of me,”…
The Pour Guys to Take Over The Connecticut Yankee
By next month The Connecticut Yankee, located at 100 Connecticut Street, will change hands from Fritz Frisbie to The Pour Guys, a partnership composed of restaurant industry veterans Joey Christensen,…
Book Review: Redeployment
David Matsuda In 2007 Phil Klay was deployed to Iraq’s Anbar Province. During his six month’s serving as a Marine public affairs officer Klay gathered stories for his book Redeployment, which won…
Artists Look to Anchor at Hunters Point Shipyard
As new residents settle into freshly built market-rate housing located at the former Hunters Point Shipyard, artists who have long maintained studios in the area are also anticipating a move,…
Potrero Hill Festival Returns
Kayren Hudiburgh On October 17th the 26th annual Potrero Hill Festival returns to 20th Street, offering a day of fun, food, music, and crafts, plus a dazzling display of aerial arts. This…
Catherine Clark Brings Art to Potrero Hill
David C. Ridings Catharine Clark, a native San Franciscan and art gallery owner, has worked with visual artists from across the globe for more than two decades. Her Utah Street-based Catherine Clark Gallery…
Film Reveiw: Beyond Measure
“You can’t put ten, twenty, sometimes forty kids in a room and expect them all to learn the same material, at the same pace, with the same structure. Everybody has…
