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JULY 2014 Serving the Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission Bay and SOMA Neighborhoods Since 1970 FREE Caltrain to Go Electric Starting in 2019 Neighbors Weigh In BY REBEKAH MOAN on Warriors Arena Caltrain is being upgraded, in ways that may provide better service to Move to Mission Bay Potrero Hill and South-of-Market resi- BY SASHA LEKACH dents, according to a representative of the commuter rail line. But some Southside When the Golden State Warriors residents have lingering concerns about announced that they were scraping the system’s ability to absorb a growing plans to build a basketball arena on number of riders. San Francisco’s waterfront in favor of a The Caltrain Modernization Pro- Mission Bay location, many Southside gram, currently underway, has three residents let out a sigh of relief. Under parts. The first is a federally-mandated the team’s latest proposal, an 18,000-seat enhanced signal system dubbed CBOSS venue, which had been slated for Port —Communications Based Overlay Signal property on Piers 30-32, will instead System—that’ll add positive train con- be built on private land bounded by trols to the system. “Positive train control Terry Francois Boulevard, 16th, Third, is a system that will automatically stop PHOTOGRAPH BY DON NOLTE and South streets. The initial plans trains that are going too fast; it will stop done at night to avoid interfering with of the timing and work locations via were announced in 2012, and entailed trains if there’s a train ahead of another train service and to minimally affect mailers and fliers as well. constructing a behemoth structure train on the train tracks; and it will stop neighbors. The third part of the modernization essentially floating above the Bay, block- the trains if an engineer misses a red According to Caltrain’s communica- program entails replacing Caltrain’s die- ing waterfront views, and changing the signal,” said Christine Dunn, public tions manager Jayme Ackemann, “This sel trains with high-performance electric City skyline. information officer for Caltrain. “It’s a is pretty low impact work as far as these trains, called “electric multiple units.” In April, the Warriors purchased safety system, and we are mandated by kinds of projects go because really all The first electric trains are scheduled to a 12-acre Mission Bay parcel from the federal government to have that in we’re doing right now is laying fiber be in operation by 2019. “Because these Salesforce.com as part of a long and place by the end of 2015.” optics cable. It’s just we’re prepping the are electric, there will be considerably hard-sought effort to move the National CBOSS installation has begun in the ground and we move through pretty less noise, dramatically reduced air pol- Basketball Association team to San corridor; right now work is being done quickly so there shouldn’t be long-term lution [by between 56 and 84 percent], Francisco and out of Oakland’s Oracle in Redwood City. A compressor bores a construction work going on in that and that will be a positive benefit for the Arena, where the team currently plays. small hole into the ground of the right of location.” community whether they take the train Although design elements are still way, conduit is pulled through the hole, There’ll be more construction-relat- or not,” Dunn said. “We’ll also be able to being worked out, the site is suitably and fiber optic cable is pulled through the ed impacts when Caltrain begins the sec- offer more service, and the reason we’ll zoned. If the proposed building is conduit. CBOSS installation will begin ond part of its modernization program: be able to do that is because it takes less similar to the renderings for the now- in San Francisco later this year. Nearby electrification. Electric infrastructure, time to stop and start an electric train, scraped waterfront site it should fall residents will be notified via a mailer including substations, overhead wires, so we’ll able to operate more trains, and within existing height limits and other when the work is scheduled to take place and poles will be installed starting in at the 22nd Street station. The work is 2016. The community will be kept abreast CALTRAIN page 26 WARRIORS page 5 Voices from District 10: More Parking, The View Needs Your Help! Affordable Like all print media, our adver- Housing Needed tising revenue has been ham- mered by the Internet, while BY SARA BLOOMBERG our expenses — rent, delivery,

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oday my friend posted “North we went, whether it was to a museum, to “Tor South?” on her social net- another town or to spend the day at the working site. I knew what that meant: she Road Trip Jealousy beach. was getting ready to grab her son, get in The destination was never the most the car and enjoy the day. Jealousy crept BY SHELAH MOSS important thing; the time spent together into my heart. My friend and I are at dif- was the real destination. I used to call those ferent stages of our parenting adventure. moments “time out of time.” They were the My daughter is grown; her son is a young moments when the rest of the world fell boy. It’s a pleasure to see my friend and her away, when all that mattered was who we son enjoying his childhood. It reminds me were with, and having fun. There were no of when my daughter was small and we, hard and fast rules to those road trips. If too, would jump in the car on our way to we passed a place that looked interesting, another adventure. we stopped. If we felt like having a picnic, I miss those times. They remind me of we did. Driving home from a road trip in when I was a child, and my family would a rain storm one time, Liisa said that she take road trips. I miss those vacations, felt like dancing in the rain, so we stopped even though my oldest sister, Elise, often and danced. got carsick, which dampened the pleasure Liisa is grown-up now. I’m fortunate a bit, but made for great teasing later. Road Harriet, Elise, Marissa, Shelah, and Steven Moss, circa 1970. that she’ll still take road trips with me. trips make lasting memories, and drew us But it’s not the same. Our road trips together. usually include more restaurants than picnics, more When I was a child my parents would pile the four— manicures than rain dances. Her own road trips have ultimately five—of us into the car and go. When I say, become more sophisticated, involving planes and travels “pile in the car” I mean that literally. This was before to far-away places; dancing in the rain with other people. the days of child car seats and mandatory seatbelts. My And that makes me happy, too. brother, Steven, and I often occupied the back of the Now, I pile in the car with my husband to enjoy our station wagon, and made up games to play involving own road trips. It reminds me of a time before children, unwitting cars passing by on their own road trip. The a time of romance and adventure and that makes me drive itself was sometimes torturous, involving a father happy. who drove too fast, terrifying my next oldest sister. The But today I’m jealous of my friend. I’m jealous that smell of old vomit from Elise often made itself known. Liisa Pullinen she gets her own road trip to make more memories Steven and I would often squirm because my father was in too much of a hurry with her child. to stop for bathroom breaks. But the destination was always worth the trip, and Thank goodness for grandchildren. the memories, good and bad, are lasting a lifetime. Shelah Moss works with autistic children. For more of her musings, as well as tips When my daughter, Liisa, was younger, I’d pile her in the car—it was a small and exercises for kids with special needs, go to mosswoodconnections.com. Steven Moss, pile since she’s an only child—and go on our own road trip. It didn’t matter where Shelah’s older brother, will return with his Publisher’s View next month.

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Email 671.2303, cell: 590.1698 [email protected] QuinceSpa.com Beat Cop, Marquita Booth: Looking for Writers [email protected] email [email protected] Beat Cop, Mike Chantal: [email protected] Happy Summer! July 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 3 Letters to the Editor SHORT CUTS Editor, RREEF, a large corporate real estate investment company that has no inter- Perfect Potrero has owned the building for roughly 40 years, the main reason behind the In the June 2014 issue, “Smith Out, est in preserving our community. On a perfect Saturday evening last action is to shore up the structure; Tran In,” I was misquoted as saying I Last, the design center is a com- month, a roundtrip stroll from the the family plans to spend more than was in support of Proposition B. I’m munity of people who know each other Mishpot to Dogpatch uncovered a a million dollars on an earthquake fairly certain I said I was “watching and have worked together for decades. myriad of delights. On Treat Av- retrofit. The news comes on the heels with interest but not support.” Tossing us all aside for high tech enue, a.p.vin winery was holding its that FLAX—another locally-owned I like speaking directly to your rents is what’s going on here, and it’ll regular weekend afternoon tastings art supply store—will be vacating its writers but might think twice the severely damage what has taken 40 of neighborhood-made pinot noirs. At mid-Market street location to make next time I’m contacted, since I feel years to build. 18th Street, cars disgorged couples way for condominiums. Susie Colliver, misrepresented. There’s a lot of office space in San elegantly dressed in 1920s attire, in ARCH’s founder and owner, started the Thanks for the View just the same. Francisco, but only one design center. route to a benefit gala at the Homeless business in 1978 when she was just 25 Please help us try to preserve it. Prenatal Program. Over the freeway, years old. Originally catering to archi- Susan Eslick, Tennessee Street down and back up a steep slope, Goat tects in two previous Jackson Square Laurel Sprigg, Laurel Sprigg, Incorpo- Hill Pizza was bursting with spirited locations, the store started selling art Editor, rated, Henry Adams Street diners, enjoying sourdough slices. In supplies after architects went digital I’m writing because I’m very con- Dogpatch, the Dinner Lab had taken and demand for drafting materials cerned about Keith Burbank’s article Editor, over a Third Street incubator to offer dried up. Facing pressure during the about new office space at 2 Henry Ad- I had to laugh when I followed its latest multi-course pop-up meal. A first dot-com boom, ARCH relocated ams (“New Office Space, Single-Family David Looman’s advice in the June few blocks south, Magnolia Brewing to the store’s current location in 2001. Homes Coming to the Hill,” June). I’ve issue—“Let’s Restore Transporta- Company served some of the best beef Colliver learned in April that she’d owned a small business doing sewing tion Balance in San Francisco”—and brisket and pastrami that can be found need to be out of the building sometime for interior designers for 23 years in checked out his website, where readers in the City, in a remodeled American this summer, possibly as soon as this this area. My shop is on the fourth floor could learn how to fight against being Industrial Center space that exqui- month, though she’s negotiating for in the Showplace building. forced out of their cars and into Muni. sitely mixes 19th century authenticity an extension to the end of September. Several vital facts are missing from The initiative being touted there com- with 21st century cleanliness. And, as a According to Colliver, her newest staff the article. First, 2 Henry Adams is plains that Muni riders don’t pay their sliver of moon rose into the sky, a small member has been at the store for more full of 80 successful small businesses fair share, and that motorists aren’t crowd gathered on the 20th Street than three years, while four others that employ several hundred people fairly represented by the San Francisco freeway overpass to watch a “bicycle have been with her for more than 20, between them, all of whom will be Municipal Transportation Agency. The ballet” below; a half-dozen illuminated and they’re paid accordingly, with displaced if the proposed legislation to image on the website is a streetcar! Did bicyclists circling and wobbling to the full benefits. “We would love to stay set aside the Production, Distribution, some designer mistake this lumbering spirited tune of an amplified guitar. nearby,” said Colliver. “We enjoy being and Repair protection for this building F-Market for a really big SUV? The night was made complete by a a part of the local arts community. We succeeds. According to Looman’s editorial, too-close stumble across a skunk on sell things that people need in order Second, 101 Henry Adams, the the thousands of San Franciscans who the Kansas Street stairs. The only to do creative activity. You can’t have Galleria, is full of small businesses don’t have cars also have no friends or scent that lingered was of lush, sweet- a thriving intellectual community already, and there’s no room to house family to visit, never shop for groceries, smelling plants, cultivated further without libraries and bookstores. You another 80 businesses there. and can’t travel outside their neighbor- down the road, back in Mishpot, on the can’t have a thriving art scene without Third, the new owners aren’t hoods. You’d think that senior and way to Urban Putt, which has become galleries and art supply stores.” renewing anyone’s leases, and anyone disability groups, such as Lighthouse an instant San Francisco classic. lucky enough to get some space in 101 for the Blind and Senior and Disabil- Henry Adams faces a drastic increase ity Action, are leading the charge for Flawless Topping of their rent because the rents that tech more parking garages and fewer bike ARCH Out This summer Recchiuti Confections is offering a milk chocolate caramel companies can afford in the area are lanes. Actually, these organizations Potrero Hill-based family-owned art sauce, perfect for ice cream. The driving the “market rate” up for the supply store ARCH is being evicted confection has smoky caramel notes, rest of us. Another missing element is from its location after 13 years. Ac- LETTERS page 19 created by blending caramel syrup into that the buildings are now owned by cording to Aaron Gordon, whose family a smooth creamy milk chocolate, with a stamp of carbonized sugar. Handmade in small batches, the limited run sauce is on sale in nine ounce containers for $11 at Little Nib on 22nd Street…If McKinley Park By Simon Stahl you’re looking for something more in We rejoin antonio rivera’s grandkids brothers ricardo and enrique are By the time the the deep-fried-on-a-stick category, in 1840. by now their own children granted a new ranch near mission bay. brothers hear have grown. the oldest inherit the but soon the pastoral peace is of the war, check out the Alameda County Fair, family estates, while the younger shattered by news of the mexican- american sons leave to seek their fortunes in american war, declared in may 1846. settlers have which closes on July 6. You’ll find the small town of yerba buena. already taken spaghetti ice cream, crisp bacon bowl the mexican garrison in slider, and “Drunken Pickle Poppers,” sonoma. along with, of course, the usual deep commodore sloat occupies monterey, fried grilled cheese sandwiches and while castro’s army flees south. peanut butter cups. The fastest way to gain ten pounds: take the Bay Bridge

the u.s. has annexed california Hearing of a resistance movement, but After three hard fought battles, to the county fair! with barely any bloodshed. ricardo sets off for los angeles. he flores’ californios give up. they when 240 mormon settlers joins a band of californios to try to surrender their artillery and arrive, they nearly double recapture the city, while enrique stays prisoners, and are allowed to peace- yerba buena’s population. the behind to mind the ranch. fully return to their homes. soon city is rapidly becoming more yerba buena is renamed san fran- Imperfect Paper american than mexican. cisco, and mexico formally The San Francisco Public Utilities cedes cali- fornia to the u.s. Commission’s Charles Sheehan was misquoted in last month’s “Short Cuts.” According to Sheehan, he didn’t actually speak with the View about the Hunters Point Shipyard development, The brothers are permitted to keep 12-year-old carlos their land grant. ricardo marries, goes to work for his since he doesn’t work for Lennar and and has a son, carlos. uncle, his father too doesn’t know their plans. Sheehan enrique goes into proud to accept a loan business in town from enrique. also says his statements about energy but while enrique prospers, ricardo’s selling leather fortunes suffer. a harsh drought weren’t accurately reflected in the goods, his sstore but on decimates his cattle. thriving as 49’ers april 12, 1861, paper… And while AltSchool has a flood the city. everything will change... Dogpatch campus, it’s headquartered South-of-Market, contrary to what was to be continued! implied in June’s “AltSchool Recreating Traditional Schoolhouses.” 4 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014

VOICES from Front Page “We need more programs for Young and Old Get a Chunk of Change youth. There’s no park, and the library needs a better selection of through Participatory Budgeting concerns about crime and blight. In books, about science and technol- Bayview-Hunters Point the avail- ogy.” Devory Wilson, Bayview BY KEITH BURBANK justice in District 10 public schools. ability of fresh, healthy food has Participants have yet to be identified. lingered as a policy problem for Unaffordable Housing A program catering to seniors The initiative will be implemented decades. And in Dogpatch, Show- “The biggest problem is low- and another serving youth will each through a collaboration of the super- place Square, and Hunters Point income housing. It’s hard to get receive $25,000 this year as a result of visor’s office, SFUSD and City staff large-scale development is creating into the below market rate housing. District 10’s participatory budgeting experienced with restorative justice pressures on transportation and Without housing, you can’t keep a process. The process allowed resi- programs. quality-of-life issues. job. They also have all this new hous- dents to propose and vote for projects Residents voted to spend $15,000 For example, Hunters Point is ing, but no grocery stores.” Doyle they want to receive tax dollars. A to study whether to install all-way slated for 12,000 new units to be Colbert, Bayview total of $100,000 was available in stop signs at five intersections in built over the next 20 years by Len- “Make it easier to apply for District 10 in fiscal year 2014. The the district, at a cost of $3,000 per nar Corporation. The development is housing. Make the community more remaining $50,000 will be divided intersection. On Potrero Hill, the San estimated to cost $8 billion, financed livable for families. Can we see you between five other projects. All of the Francisco Municipal Transporta- in part by foreign investors, in a do what you say you’re gonna do?” seven programs receiving funds will tion Agency (SFMTA) will conduct deal that was originally hatched by Bayview resident be administered by City departments, studies at 18th and Texas streets and former mayor Willie Brown. Total which can enlist the help of communi- Mariposa and Pennsylvania streets. In project expenditures could reach ty organizations. Dogpatch, SFMTA as high as $11 billion, once hazard- Curb crime “I am proud will examine the ous cleanup and infrastructure is “My biggest concern is crime, to announce the i n t e r s e c t i o n a t factored in, according a 2013 report especially with my 16-year-old results of the During this year’s 24th and Minne- by the Center for Investigative daughter. I’m an active member of District 10 Par- pilot program, over sota streets. The Reporting. the Next Door Potrero Hill blog. I ticipatory Bud- transit agency will The View asked District 10 resi- 400 District 10 residents hear about shootings, muggings, bus geting Process,” also investigate in- dents what they wanted from their voted to decide on drivers being harassed, cell phones wrote District 10 tersections at Man- supervisor. Below is some of what howwe should spend being stolen. What kind of strate- Supervisor Ma- sell and Hamilton we heard. gies do they have to curb crime? It lia Cohen. “Dur- $100,000 to improve streets and Bacon the process. seems to be getting worse.” Vanessa ing this year’s pi- our community. and Girard streets. Marlin, Potrero Hill lot program, over SUPERVISOR MALIA COHEN Eleven thou- More Parking Needed “It seems like there’s been an 400 District 10 sand dollars will “It’s already difficult to park” increase in crime and police activ- residents voted provide six months and it’s going to be even more chal- ity. There are cop cars outside more to decide on how of rental and utility lenging if they take out parking often. What are they going to do we should spend $100,000 to improve assistance to Visitacion Valley seniors. spots along Potrero Avenue as part about it?” Ethan Geier, Potrero Hill our community.” The money hasn’t yet been directed to of a street beautification project. District 3 pioneered the idea any specific housing complex. The “We get at least one parking ticket in San Francisco in 2013, and was Department of Human Services will a month already.” George Orlando Too Toxic joined by Districts 7 and 10 this year. administer the program, and allocate Smith, Potrero Hill “What will you do about the Cohen, who is up for re-election this the money through a public process. “There needs to be a more ap- gross discrimination that has been November, said she’d rely on the Ten thousand dollars will be used propriate—larger—number of park- going on in the District 10 area? process again next year if she receives to expand the City’s existing Urban ing spots included in new housing People have been dying because another $100,000 in discretionary Agriculture Program in District developments. Street parking is of the toxins that we breathe. No money. 10 to preschool children and other already a problem.” Tim Garafola, one, not even the City, is concerned. Senior Services Resource Pro- youth. A site has yet to be identified Potrero Hill They’re only concerned about the gram received the most votes in for the funds. Another $10,000 will be developments.” Espanola Jackson, this year’s process. The program, dedicated to planting a community Bayview administered by the Department of garden on public property in the Sun- Youth Deserve Support Human Services, will provide com- nydale neighborhood. And $5,000 will “There’s a Boys and Girls club in puter training, citizenship classes, be spent to write a grant to install Sunnydale, but we need more outside expanded access to meals and im- beautification projects designed by of that.” Visitacion Valley resident proved awareness among seniors of under-served public high school the services offered. students. Restorative Justice Mentorship More than 1,000 cities worldwide Program received the second highest use participatory budgeting. In 1990, number of votes. The San Francisco Porte Alegre, Brazil became the first Unified School District (SFUSD) will municipality in the world to launch a We Appreciate administer this pilot program, which full participatory budgeting process. is aimed at low-income students Since then, the idea has spread to who are suspended for disruptive Spain, Chicago, New York City, and Our Supporters! behavior. Former inmates will men- Vallejo, California. Vallejo was the tor the youth and teach restorative first United States city to implement

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The View thanks our supporters and advertisers. You wouldn’t be reading this pa- per without them. To become a suppporter, email [email protected]. July 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 5 WARRIORS from Front Page Educators Want Greater Scrutiny of Mariposa Street Development BY KEITH BURBANK adequately addressed.” about how they’ll be able to drop off restrictions. “This is not an ordinary block,” their kids given anticipated increases According to South Beach/Rincon/ said Holly Friedman, who lives at 18th in traffic. “More cars, more danger,” Mission Bay Neighborhood Association Child advocates requested an and Arkansas streets. Friedman cited Wilbur said. Teachers also fear the loss president Katy Ledell, Mission Bay expanded environmental review of the the nearby schools—including Kipp of natural light into classrooms, citing seems like a better fit for the project. proposed development at 1601 Maripo- College Preparatory — adding that a study that indicates that natural light She indicated that many association sa Street at a meeting focusing on the children are more vulnerable to harm improves learning. members are “relieved and happy with project last month. Currently, the scope than adults. The Planning Department Other meeting attendees said the the change.” The neighborhood’s goal is of the review includes only hazards and held the meeting at ISA to gather in- added population caused by the devel- to “go forward and have a more posi- hazardous materials, shadows, and formation to inform the environmental opment may cause overcrowding and tive outlook,” she said, while working transportation and circulation. But review. user conflicts at Jackson Playground; out concerns, mostly revolving around Potrero Hill residents and advocates “I requested that the Planning one parent wanted the impact to the transportation and quality of life issues. for schoolchildren—especially those Department host a scoping meeting playground to be included in the She said the San Francisco Municipal representing Live Oak School and for the 1601 Mariposa project,” said environmental impact report. Natalie Transportation Agency is looking into International Studies Academy (ISA) District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen. Walrond, Live Oak School Board of revamping public transit options for the —asked the San Francisco Planning “These meetings are essential. We must Trustees president, called for a de- area, which is mostly accessible by the Department to add noise, aesthetics, make sure that our residents have ac- tailed noise analysis, given the adverse lone T-Third Metro line. She’s focused recreation, population, and housing curate, transparent information about impact sound can have on learning. on keeping the community clean and to the list. the environmental review of projects. Others asked whether residents of safe as large crowds start descending on “Based upon the content of the Judging from the large turnout of the proposed project would complain the area for games, concerts and other comments received, the Depart- residents and parents who articulated about the kids playing outside. And events. ment will review the NOP [Notice of concerns, the project sponsor has sig- questions were raised about whether Ledell is optimistic about the plan, Preparation]/CPE [Community Plan nificant work to do.” there’ll be enough privacy for students but conceded she and others are wor- Exemption Checklist] to determine About 100 people attended the and residents. ried, based on experiences dealing with if the topics that were screened-out meeting, including Lydia Tan, execu- Live Oak school head Virginia the Giants baseball stadium. “Those of from further review in the EIR were tive vice president and director, north- Paik asked that the EIR not rely on an us who live here plan our lives around adequately addressed,” said Chelsea ern California operations, Related outdated Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, Giants games,” she noted. She expects Fordham, environmental planner, San California, the company developing a comment echoed by others, includ- the Warriors arena will have a similar Francisco Planning Department. The the project. Tan has been leading Re- ing Alison Heath, of Grow Potrero impact on residents. public comment period for the EIR lated’s efforts, but didn’t speak at the Responsibly, which is advocating for Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in a closed June 13. get-together. Most of the meeting time a smaller project at 1601 Mariposa video interview from the team’s website “If further analysis is required was given to the public for comments, Street. Heath said current development that the decision to move the site to Mis- on topics that were scoped out from many of which came from parents of in the eastern neighborhoods is mak- sion Bay came after the team “listened to further analysis in the EIR,” Ford- children at Live Oak School, as well as ing the plan obsolete, with more units everyone,” alluding to political opposi- ham said, “the Department would Live Oak teachers and administrators. in the planning process than the City tion for the Pier 30-32 proposal that lead provide additional analysis in the “This project is too large, too ambi- projected for 2025. Connecticut Street to the Proposition B ballot measure that EIR, as necessary. If it determined tious,” said Scott Wilbur, a teacher at resident and District 10 supervisor was approved by 59 percent of voters that these issues were adequately Live Oak School. Teachers and staff candidate Tony Kelly asked at what last month. That measure requires wa- addressed in the NOP/CPE, the DEIR wonder if there’ll be parking if the point the Eastern Neighborhoods EIR [Draft Environmental Impact Report] project is built; parents are concerned becomes irrelevant. WARRIORS CARE page 6 would describe how these issues were 6 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014

WARRIORS from page 5 fan, and eager for the squad to move to a bigger market. “It will attract more Dogpatch Residents Call for folks” and will bring the team back to its terfront and all Port property building San Francisco roots, he said. The team, Extension of T-Line Loop projects that exceed set height limits to once known as the San Francisco War- go to a public vote for approval. riors, played in the City throughout the BY KEITH BURBANK Lacob noted that an inland site was 1960s after moving from Philadelphia. more practical, and the land purchase “I don’t understand people who say they Dogpatch residents are call- was made with private money, a move belong in Oakland,” he said while wear- ing on the San Francisco Board of for a professional sports team that he ing a bright yellow team T-shirt. Supervisors to move the planned called “unprecedented. There’s no public T-line turnaround from Third and money in this venture,” he said. He also Wade Roush, who has lived on the 18th streets to 23rd Street. The touted the location’s accessibility, high Dogpatch-Potrero Hill border for nearly turnaround advocates’ request will number of parking spaces and proxim- four years, thinks the Mission Bay move be heard at the Board’s Land Use ity to public transportation that drops is “fantastic news. It gives the Warriors and Economic Development Com- visitors “right to the front door.” a prime spot near an existing sports mittee hearing on July 7. But there SBRMBNA board director and Mis- complex in an increasingly exciting and seems to be little hope of changing sion Bay resident Matt Springer said that busy neighborhood. It puts the former existing plans. community members have a “cautious Salesforce.com property—which is “This project has received all positive outlook.” Mission Bay residents currently little more than a windswept, necessary environmental clearances are hopeful that the arena will inject fenced-off lot—to good use. What’s not and a favorable construction bid last new life into the neighborhood, improve to like?” he quipped. week,” said Paul Rose, spokesperson, streets and public transit options, but San Francisco Municipal Transpor- are aware of potential problems, he said. San Francisco native and Warriors tation Agency. “We will continue to It’ll cost roughly $6.2 million “Anywhere you put a venue like this, fan Jason Barton, who has lived on responsibly move forward on this to build the loop at Third and 18th you will get gridlock on streets,” noting Potrero Hill’s western slope since 2006, project.” streets, with $4.9 million coming transit and traffic are top concerns. For is also optimistic about his team mov- Residents argue that a loop at from a federal grant. “Regarding the neighbors there’s the likely possibility ing closer. “That area was becoming a Third and 23rd streets would better question about losing funding: there that “their peaceful way of life is shat- monolithic UCSF campus without any serve Dogpatch, and particularly is a strict schedule associated with tered,” he said. character. I think something large like Pier 70. As the community grows project delivery” Rose said, “and no Other neighbors and workers who the Warriors will be a great contrast.” advocates insist that a more southern other location has been evaluated or spend time in Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, He jokingly added, “I’m trying to figure loop will draw more visitors to the so close to construction as the cur- South-of-Market, and Mission Bay out how best to divert money from my 22nd Street business district. And rent site, so the responsible thing is voiced their perspectives on the new son’s college fund to a season ticket fund people who use the 22nd Street to continue on the current course to arena, which is expected to open in time come 2018. Go San Francisco Warriors!” Caltrain stop would find it easier to keep funding in place.” for the 2018 basketball season. board Muni. Current plans call for the train Bonnie Baron, 68, who has lived “We support working with the to veer onto 18th street from Third Joe Woo, 26, who moved to San throughout Potrero Hill for the past community to extend the T-line Street, travel south on Illinois Francisco from Seattle three years ago turnaround loop so that it serves Street, turn west on 19th street and and works in SoMa, is an avid Warriors WARRIORS page 14 the Dogpatch,” said Alexa Arena, then turn north on Third Street. senior vice president, Forest City, Schwartz argues that 18th and 19th one of the developers of Pier 70. streets are poor choices for the loop Forest City could build as many as because they’re narrow. In addition, From the Hill to the Valley, 2,000 residential units at the pier, a loop at 23rd street would impact as well as significant amounts of fewer residents; 18th street has nu- Claudia’s got you covered. office space. “It’s important that we merous nearby residential buildings. work together to support transporta- And Schwartz argues that a tion upgrades that serve the entire loop further south would prevent neighborhood with additional public additional congestion along Third transit, expansion of the City’s car- Street after baseball games. He said and bike-share programs, and other many fans use 18th Street to get to innovative transportation manage- Interstates 80 and 280. When the ment programs,” she said. Warrior stadium is built in Mission “So we’re saying look at alterna- Bay, bottlenecks may worsen, a tives,” said Illinois Street resident condition that could be exacerbated Bill Schwartz. Schwartz hopes by traffic to and from the new Uni- others will join him at City Hall, versity of California, San Francisco but admitted that SFMTA is “very hospital, which is scheduled to open resistant” to changing its plans. next year. District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen is a committee member, and placed the issue on the July meeting agenda.

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nonprofit corporation. According to Starr King Open Space Needs Donations, Volunteers its website, the space isn’t a park, but a wildland for animals and plants, BY KEITH BURBANK and a place for exploration and tran- quility. Many Potrero Hill residents The nonprofit that owns Starr are unaware of who’s responsible for King Open Space needs volunteers the land, and its purpose. The board and money to safeguard the space’s wants to raise community awareness, future, goals discussed at an annual which would trigger the ability to meeting held earlier this summer at raise money and attract volunteers. Starr King Elementary School. The “We have this lovely three acres,” organization’s nine board members said Tom Phillips, a Carolina Street are hard pressed to juggle their resident who stressed the land was work, family, and volunteer re- “uniquely given” to Potrero Hill. sponsibilities. They need help with As private land, Phillips said it’s grant writing, land stewardship and important that community members fundraising. take care of it. Phillips has volun- “We had a great turn out for the teered to plant native grasses and meeting, and the moral of the story is other species. Plants unique to the that we’re functioning, cohesive and area are being propagated, a focus supportive,” said board member Julie of the nonprofit’s land stewardship, Shumate. “Our vulnerability lies in according to Phillips. our limited monetary resources, so The board hopes to recruit dog we’ll be doubling our community owners to help with stewardship, outreach and fundraising efforts in since they represent the largest the next year.” The group is paying population of Starr King Open Space its bills, but has nothing set aside for visitors. Dogs and their owners a rainy day. would benefit from any improve- The nonprofit has several items ments, Shumate said. “When we see on its wish list. Roughly $6,000 them…we’re going to ask them for may be needed to repair sidewalks shepherds, a trailer, and a herd of Starr King’s board meets every month at the help.” Though the City has about adjacent to the Open Space, which goats cost $5,500 to rent. Potrero Branch library, and encourages public 200 parks, Starr King Open Space is were tagged by the San Francisco “They eat absolutely every- participation. only one of 28 legal, off-leash canine Department of Public Works. Board thing,” said board member Webb areas. members have long wanted money Green, of the goats. Native plants “We have to get ahead of the for goats that would graze the land and some invasives – species that area and compete with native species curve,” Shumate said. A visitor to reduce the number of invasive were brought to the Bay Area from for water and nutrients, sometimes breaking a leg, for example, would plants and foxtails, though the idea outside the region – will grow back, killing them off. force the nonprofit to pay a deduct- is not without controversy. A meeting “but it would be a big head start to- Given to Potrero Hill residents ible. “We’re vulnerable,” she said. attendee cited an instance in which ward getting rid of the invasives,” a about 30 years ago by the devel- “But we all love this space and we’re goats turned a meadow into a field top objective of the nonprofit. As the oper of an adjacent housing complex, willing to work for it. We just want of thistles. About two years ago, two name suggests, invasives invade an Starr King Open Space is owned by a help.”

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BY KEITH BURBANK reational facilities.” Public access to the parks would be created “by setting new The same month a ballot initiative buildings back at least 100 feet from that requires voter approval for height the shoreline.” The development would limit exemptions on the waterfront make new space available for cultural passed, the Dogpatch Neighborhood uses, nonprofits, artists, small-scale Association (DNA) endorsed Forest manufacturers, and retail and service City’s request for a height increase at businesses, though it’s unclear how their Pier 70 development. Forest City affordable commercial rents will be. wants to build up to 90 feet, more than Forest City proposes to move the double the current 40-foot limit. existing Noonan Building artist com- “We appreciate DNA’s endorsement munity to a new “state-of-the-art” of the height limit increase,” said Alexa space. Rent “will be based on the Port’s Arena, senior vice president, Forest current parameter rent schedule for City. “By continuing to work closely the Noonan Building inflated to the with the neighborhood we have a date the new space is available, and tremendous opportunity to transform a thereafter as outlined in a Community largely abandoned site cut off from the Benefits Agreement.” The company waterfront for decades by chain link will “continuously” accommodate the fencing into a community asset that re- artists during construction. connects Dogpatch to the waterfront.” Forest City estimates that the Forest City was clear that it wasn’t project will create 10,000 permanent asking DNA to endorse the project in lot. Forest City has to file the petition The site’s current height limit is 40 feet; three jobs, and 11,000 temporary construc- its entirety. The development will go and signatures with the Department of historic buildings located are already 44 feet or tion jobs. The developer will invest through the same community planning Elections at least 120 days before the higher. Building 2 is 90 feet, Building 12 is 60 more than $200 million to improve and environmental review process as election. Otherwise it’ll have to wait feet and Building 21 is 44 feet. transportation and infrastructure IMAGE COURTESY OF FOREST CITY any other project, including examina- until a future vote. The filing deadline critical to the site, the new historic tion by the San Francisco Planning for the November 4 election is July 7. district, ship repair operations, and the Commission, the Port of San Fran- While the site’s current height limit development proposal in the past year, surrounding neighborhood, including cisco, and the San Francisco Board of is 40 feet, three historic buildings lo- in addition to including as many as 600 protection from rising seas. All of the Supervisors. cated on it are already 44 feet or higher. affordable housing units in the project. “benefits will be paid for from revenues The developer started preparing Building 2 is 90 feet, Building 12 is “We believe a robust affordable created by the project and will not rely for the now necessary ballot measure to 60 feet and Building 21 is 44 feet. The housing program makes a better on a single dollar of funding from the authorize increased heights even before ballot measure asks voters to approve place and it’s why we’ve committed City’s General Fund,” according to the last month’s approval of Proposition B. edifices reaching “two to nine stories.” to building 30 percent of the units at measure. The company is gathering the required “There will be very little differ- below market rates, which is more than Forest City reports that more than 9,702 signatures to place its measure, ence in the views that are seen today, double the amount required,” Arena 10,000 people have attended public tentatively titled the “Union Iron since the proposed building heights said. Forest City is proposing that a events held to vet the project. At a June Works Historic District Housing, Wa- are in the range of existing buildings,” majority of the units be rentals. open house, one Dogpatch resident said terfront Parks, Jobs and Preservation Arena said. Increased heights is one of The measure would bring 28 acres the height exemption seemed reason- Initiative,” on the November 2014 bal- two changes Forest City has made to its of the 66-acre historic site back to life. able. At the DNA meeting, 22 members The balance of the 66 acres is divided voted in favor of the increase, with two into three areas: a section of historic opposed. buildings being renovated by Orton “They’ve done a nice job listening Development, the future Crane Cove to the community,” said Indiana Street We’ve got all of your favorites. Park, and ship repair operations. resident Brandon Roslin. The revitalization, as laid out in Former Mayor Art Agnos, who the initiative, would include, among other improvements, “nine acres of PIER 70 page 27 waterfront parks, playgrounds and rec-

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BY KEITH BURBANK residents who oppose aspects of the project, said Raintree Partners could Dogpatch community members avoid cutting the trees if the company failed to persuade the San Francisco designed the development with a stan- Planning Commission to halt a pro- dard rear yard occupying 25 percent posed development at 2051 Third Street of the site. Neighbors have requested last month. After a short discussion, that the City designate the trees as the Commission voted unanimously to landmarks, and will likely appeal the approve Raintree Partners’ request for Planning Commission’s decision to the a large project authorization, agreeing Board of Supervisors. that the proposal meets the require- “These trees meet all the City ments for Eastern Neighborhoods requirements for being considered Mixed Use Districts. ‘significant,’ said Lori Maak-Ingram, a “No comment right now,” said resident of an adjacent property at 610 Jason Check, director of development, Illinois Street, “and many of us have Raintree Partners, when asked for asked our Supervisor, Malia Cohen, his reaction to the favorable decision. to nominate the trees for landmark Check is leading Raintree’s efforts to status since they are so large, provide develop apartments at the site. Legal staff report. Andrew Junius addressed the San Francisco a habitat for wildlife, and are the only counsel for Raintree Partners, Andrew To address residents’ concerns, Planning Commission last month on behalf ‘significant’ trees in our area.” Junius, Reuben, Junius & Rose, L.L.P. Raintree Partners moved the build- of Raintree Partners, which is developing lobbied the Commission 15 times ing’s elevators to the south, which will the rental property at 2051 Third Street in between February 12, and March 26, allow more light to fall on the open Dogpatch. PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH BURBANK 2014 on behalf of the project. space of the owner-occupied lofts to Raintree will merge three parcels the north. The adjacent building to the Check said that aligning the walls to form a 19,620-square-feet lot be- south of the project is a rental property, would force his company to build less tween Third and Illinois streets. The and few, if any, of the buildings’ oc- than the required 40 percent of two- and development will rise to roughly 80 cupants turned out to comment on the three-bedroom units. Raintree Partners feet in some locations. The Planning development. Raintree also reduced the seems determined to construct as many Commission approved 93 rental units; massing along the project’s north side. units as possible on the site. Raintree the company contracted with the City And the company changed its design solicited support for its development and County of San Francisco to main- to align the development’s courtyard from the San Francisco Housing Action tain the units as rentals for 30 years. with that of the adjacent buildings’ Coalition and San Francisco Bay Area As a result, Raintree will be allowed courtyards. That alteration will allow Renters Federation; both groups want to provide three percent fewer on-site the three yards to receive sunlight from new housing throughout the City. affordable units, and the firm will the south. Neighbors want to protect two pay one dollar per gross square foot Raintree Partners refused to align eucalyptus trees along Illinois Street, less in development impact fees to the a wall of its project with the wall of one which Raintree Partners plans to cut City, a $93,176 reduction, according to of the adjacent buildings, which will down to build the project. Steven a June 5, 2014, Planning Department reduce the light its residents receive. Williams, an attorney representing PHOTOGRAPH BY ED RUDOLPH

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BY KEITH BURBANK employees, but hiring is difficult in the face of uncertainties related to A potential zoning change that their lease. would be triggered if 2 Henry Adams Jeanne Reynolds, general man- Street is granted landmark status ager of American Century Floors, is worrying some of the building’s had engaged an architect late last tenants. Landmark status would year to design its space, but build- enable the property manager, Bay ing managers told them not to move West Development, to change zon- forward. ing to office use from Production, “At any moment they could say Distribution and Repair. And while they are not renewing your lease, and Bay West Development has already after 30 years you have 30 days to get found a tenant to occupy some or all out of the space, said Jim Gallagher, of the office space in anticipation of general manager of Garden Court the change, it hasn’t committed to Antiques. assuring alternative space for ten- “We do have detailed phasing ants who could be dislodged after plans,” Murphy told Cohen. their existing leases end. Bay West According to Murphy, Bay West Development is owned by Chicago- Development wants to lease office based RREEF. space to Pinterest, which doesn’t “Trust me,” is what District 10 fully match with what he told the Supervisor Malia Cohen heard from View when he was interviewed Sean Murphy, partner, Bay West previously, at which point he said Development, at a Land Use and the space would be leased to design- Economic Development Commit- focused businesses. Some existing tee meeting held last month. But, tenants see the zoning change as an Cohen said she was having trouble opportunity for Bay West Develop- extending that faith because of ment to raise rents by leasing to the uncertainty facing tenants. technology companies. Other said Roughly a dozen citizens appeared they use Pinterest in their work, and at the gathering to oppose the zon- are sympathetic to their moving into ing change, with an equal number the building. in support. The building, constructed in 1915 In an interview with the View, for mining equipment and supplier Murphy said current tenants could Dunham, Carrigan and Hayden, is move to 101 Henry Adams Street if widely considered deserving of the top four floors of 2 Henry Adams landmark designation. are converted to office use. 101 Henry At the end of the meeting, the Adams is currently 80 percent oc- supervisors decided to defer a vote cupied; 2 Henry Adams is 90 percent on landmark status, and asked full. Murphy said he’d work with Murphy to consult with existing tenants to help them transfer to 101 tenants about his company’s plans. Henry Adams or other nearby space. Cohen is evaluating legislation that Remaining lease terms among cur- would allow landmarked buildings rent tenants vary from 30 days to to have some office space, but not ten years. as much as current law allows. She “I cannot trust them to move us,” said that landmarking of 2 Henry said one tenant at the hearing. The Adams Street won’t proceed until she same tenant said their business was introduces that legislation. just getting back on its feet after the “I am looking for a broad policy recession, and wanted to add more to set the zoning. I don’t want to do spot zoning,” Cohen said. “I believe I can strike a balance between PDR Top, 2 Henry Adams is being considered for and allowing higher revenues to sup- landmark status. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. DURRANT COME BE PART OF A WELCOMING, Bottom, Sean Murphy, partner, Bay West port the maintenance of these build- Development, addressed the San Francisco ings, which are old and beautiful and WARM, INCLUSIVE FAITH COMMUNITY Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic expensive to maintain. But I’m not Development Committee last month at a City doing anything until these tenants ST. TERESA OF AVILA Hall hearing. PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH BURBANK have all their questions answered.” The committee will hear the item CATHOLIC CHURCH again July 7, 2014. SERVED BY THE CARMELITES 1490 19TH STREET (AT CONNECTICUT STREET)

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is perfect. I look forward to going to WARRIORS from page 6 games, since I never went to see them in Oakland.” View film critic and Hill resident nearly 40 years, is happy to have the Rick Alber said, “I’ve been accused of arena nearby, but thinks “it’s a raw being a “NIMBY” focused entirely on deal for the East Bay fans who have protecting my views, but even though supported the team over the years, espe- this stadium will impact my views from cially now that the Warriors are playing the Hill…I’m all for it.” such exciting basketball.” Missouri and 16th streets resident Photographer Scott Kline, who has Joey DAngelo succinctly stated, “Bring lived in Dogpatch since 2011, said, “I am it!” while Trevor Branon, of 19th and a big thumbs up. It will be really exciting Missouri streets, said he’s “super ex- BY LISA FAGUNDES, LIBRARIAN Library News to have the arena in the neighborhood. cited to be able to walk to games and I’m sure there will be some headaches concerts. (It) will help make Mission like there were with the hospital con- Bay more interesting, too.” Potrero Branch will be closed Friday July 4th for Independence Day. struction, but overall it keeps the area With four and half decades on The 56th Annual Potrero Branch Artists’ Exhibition is on display until moving in a positive direction.” Potrero’s north slope, Richard Hutson May 3 to July 31. Potrero Hill resident since 1991, said, “I welcome the Warriors and Summer Reading: For all ages. Sign up to win prizes for reading. and Warriors season ticket holder since hope they will build an architecturally 1974, David Smith said, “I applaud the attractive structure and keep it below PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS use of the space. It’s a good place for the the allowable height limits. There Movie: So I Married an Axe Murderer, a San Francisco Library Film Festival arena, and should support a lot more should also be a very specific parking Screening, is an offbeat, hatchet-driven romance about a wedlock-shy coffee restaurants and commerce in the area, and traffic plan as well as significantly house poet (Mike Myers) whose perfect woman (Nancy Travis) just might be something Mission Bay is lacking right improved (San Francisco Municipal a serial killer. 93 minutes. 1993. PG-13 rating. Sunday, July 20, 2 to 4 p.m. now.” Railway) service to accommodate the After living near the Potrero Hill crowds.” Write Your Own Will Workshop. Stuart Bronstein, estate planning and Neighborhood House for more than 20 probate lawyer in San Francisco for more than 30 years, helps participants years, Mark Gettys said he supports the Attorney, teacher, and grandmother create a fully functional will. Bring a blue ink non-erasable pen. Class size new arena plans. He suggested including Sherry Abrams said she’s concerned is limited to 15. Wednesday, July 23, 6 to 7:30 p.m. ample underground parking in con- about the impact the arena will have struction plans, along with ground floor on the neighborhood. “As a senior PROGRAMS FOR TEENS retail, or hotel space and housing, “so and a person not much interested in that it is not a dead block on non-event basketball, I don’t want to walk too far, GoGo Crafts. Make a San Francisco-themed denim bike bag. All materials dates.” He suggested that the Warriors and I don’t want to go to the games. To provided. Workshop is limited to 15 people, ages 12 and up. Saturday, July build a green and/or public roof, and me, an arena will only mean more noise, 26, 2 to 4 p.m. that Caltrain add a stop between the lights, bad parking, traffic jams, and San Francisco and 22nd Street stations being unable to get downtown or to the PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN on event days. Bay Bridge, and friends in the East Bay Baby Rhyme and Play Time. Songs and rhymes for infants up to 18 months Carole Mclaughlin, an 18th Street who really do not want to fight their way old and their caregiver. Tuesdays, July 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 1:15 to 1:45 p.m. resident for 23 years, said “Warriors should be in San Francisco. That site WARRIORS page 19 Family Story time. Featuring stories, songs and rhymes. For children from birth to five years old and their caregiver(s). Thursdays July 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Saturday Snacktivity. Following the PS3 Games, the library will offer a wholesome snack. All ages welcome. Saturday, July 5, 12 to 1:30 p.m. I’m local. I’m Zephyr. Insect Discovery Lab. Handle and explore the fantastic lives of millipedes, walking sticks, whip scorpions and more. For children ages five and up. Advance sign-ups required. Saturday, July 5, 2 to 3 p.m. Potrero Hill is a great place to call home. I know because over the past decade, I’ve helped dozens Fun Flicks. Charlie Needs a Cloak; Joseph Had a Little Overcoat; Dr. DeSoto; Ella the Elegant Elephant. For ages three to eight. Wednesday July 9, 6:30 to 7:15 of clients find their perfect spot on the Hill. I found p.m. mine and have lived here for 20 years.

Unique Derique delights by clowning, dancing, and turning his body into a When you’re considering your next move, drum set. His gently interactive performance is percussive, syncopated and let me earn your business. dynamic! For all ages. Saturday, July 12, 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.

Our Future’s So Bright! – Presented by Aquarium of the Bay. Observe how The Realtor on the Hill, For People on the Hill humans have affected the balance of natural cycles on Earth, and then explore —and our Potrero Office’s #1 Top Producer through play how new innovations give us the opportunity to return balance for the 2nd year in a row! to our environment. For ages five to eight. Friday, July 18, 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.

Movie and Meal Day. Despicable Me 2 will be shown, and the Potrero Hill Family Support Center will provide a meal. Friday, July 18, 3 to 5:30 p.m. Wes Freas REALTOR®, Top Producer, Marble Machine Tinkering – partnered with the Exploratorium. Roll a marble Potrero Hill Resident down a contraption of your own design, built with everyday materials. Ad- vance sign-up required. For ages six and up. Saturday, July 19, 4 to 5:30 p.m. 415.426.3225 tel/fax 415.518.6538 cell LEGO. Enjoy an afternoon of LEGO play. For ages five and up. Friday, July [email protected] 25, 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.

LIBRARY SPONSORED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Creative Writing Workshop. A free class to help you write your own stories, develop characters, and find your own unique voice. Contact Shevi for more information: [email protected] or 602.7961. Thursdays July 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Potrero Branch Seed Library. Thanks to the generous contributions of local gardeners and Whole Foods Grocery, Potrero Branch Seed Library continues. You’re welcome to “check out” seeds, plant them, and bring your harvested seeds back to the library. July 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 5 650 Indiana Street Demonstrates the

Espirt Park Cleanup Benefits of Good Development Practices Last April, more than 15 University of California, San Francisco staff BY DWANE KENNEDY engaged in volunteer gardening for several hours at Esprit Park. Theef- fort was led by Dogpatch resident Sue Mortensen (leading group The west side of 650 Indiana Street, in photo below). Working with San Francisco Recreation and Park between 18th and 19th streets, is staff Bruce Lee, the group put 30 new plants into the ground. home to an unimpressive collection of warehouses, storage facilities, and Café Cocomo. Under a plan created by Build, Inc.—and unanimously approved last May by the San Francisco Plan- ning Commission —110 housing units, 1,900 square feet of ground floor retail, public open space, and underground parking will be developed. The architectural mass will be divided into two separate structures, designed by different architects, each five stories tall, serving as a buffer all sang from the same song sheet. No to the rest of the neighborhood from one spoke against the project. Even the sights and sounds of Interstate Planning Department staff found little 280 automobile traffic. The project’s to criticize. southern end will be punctuated by an The positive process was likely the outdoor public plaza that will likely result of Build, Inc.’s work with the become a sunny gathering spot for local Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, residents. and the close attention the company The development’s crown jewel paid to the community’s concerns and is the 51-unit structure designed by recommendations, including such de- Pfau-Long Architects, referred to as tails as bicycle parking and accessory “Building O.” The edifice is big, boxy, lockers for residents. Courtyards and and attractive, with extruded windows, open spaces are tied together and form operable retail glass panels, and an ex- a natural relationship to the City- terior composed of modern materials. owned Espirit Park, which is adjacent Perhaps the most remarkable to the project site. By building on the aspect of the 650 Indiana project is the existing neighborhood’s fabric, and absence of opposition and controversy. respecting the character of the com- At the May Planning Commission hear- munity’s people, places and values, the ing at which the proposed plans were 650 Indiana Street project will likely considered, the developer, community provide an important contribution to members, and Planning Commission Dogpatch.

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Potrero Hill Mural Dedication PHOTOGRAPHS BY DON NOLTE AND PETER LINENTHAL

BY PAUL MCDONALD

PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER LINENTHAL Edward Hatter, director of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, and Emily Weinstein of Rebuild Potrero spoke last month at the dedication of a new mural at Potrero Hill Health Center.

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Top Weather Patterns, hand-painted book Ward Schumaker Makes Art on Pennsylvania Avenue (paste and acrylic), 2003 Potrero Hill Mural Dedication Bottom, Igor Stravinsky by Ward Schumaker, BY FRAN JOHNS PHOTOGRAPHS BY DON NOLTE AND PETER LINENTHAL acrylic and paste on paper, 2012, collection: Patricia Bruning Contemporary art of “relaxed, fearless confidence,” San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker said said, “he came to live with me, and of Ward Schumaker’s recent exhibition I didn’t want him to be raised by an at the Jack Fischer Gallery, located on unhappy paper salesman. My first wife Potrero Avenue. According to Baker, and I had tried to do the story of the the show displayed “new work that Underground Railroad as a children’s immediately rewards a lifetime of book which never sold, but I took the il- learning to look.” The accolades were lustrations to an ad agency.” His career no surprise to anyone who’s followed as an illustrator quickly took off. Potrero Hill artist Schumaker’s work. “When my first wife and I sepa- Schumaker, who lives on Penn- rated I got Matt. He went to high sylvania Avenue with his wife, artist/ school in Rome, but then came back.” A illustrator Vivienne Flesher, has been Princeton graduate working on his doc- making art since his Omaha child- torate at the University of California, hood. But several detours kept the Berkeley, Matt Schumaker inherited public from knowing much about it his father’s creative genes, though he until late in his career. The first was exhibits it through music. He recently winning first place in a Nebraska Gov- won the prestigious Ladd Prix de Paris, ernor’s Art Competition when he was a monetary award enabling him to live a 22-year-old college senior, and then independently in Paris and write music. having his painting removed before the Schumaker recently spent a month show opened. with Matt, his wife Malena Watrous- “I needed $400 for my last se- Schumaker—author of a well-received mester,” he recalled, “and I saw an first novel If You Follow Me—and their ad for the contest announcing a $400 son Max. “Max is six, and has his own Purchase Prize. I had been doing one- email,” Schumaker said. color paintings, but pop art was all After living for a year in Manhat- the rage, so I thought I’d do something tan in 2012, Ward and Vivienne are pop.” That turned out to be a pop art back at work in their Pennsylvania Av- copy of Michelangelo’s iconic “God enue home studios. His is on one floor, Creating the Universe,” the segment hers on another. He’s been working on showing God reaching out and almost small paintings he calls “rectangular touching the hand of Adam. “I did a pop splotches,” but more recently has been art God,” Schumaker explains, “but as drawn to sculptures, first made of a skeleton, showing the bones, and I put cardboard and now wood. Several were a wrist watch on his arm.” shown at the San Francisco Art Fair Out-of-state judges awarded last spring. Schumaker first place, but Nebraska “A pivotal point for Vivienne and dignitaries, including the governor and me,” Schumaker said, “was with some his wife, imagined pictures within the exhibitions Mary Austin had at the images that the artist didn’t actually Center for the Book,” located on Rhode put there, and declared it pornographic. Island Street. “She started showing After being summoned to a basement these handmade books, and later had room where his painting stood inside a a class, in 2002 I think, in paste papers; vault—with pieces of cardboard taped the things you do for end papers of the over the purportedly offensive areas books. We like the medium, and started —the young artist was offered $400 doing big books, which led to the show plus another $25 to remove his work at Jack Fischer Gallery that Kenneth from the competition. Word, of course, Baker liked.” quickly got out. Reporters were shown In a tone of incredulity Schumaker the painting and, bewildered, were told participated in the free-spirited sixties coming in from his unseen paintings, admitted to being proud of having “Well, if you don’t see anything dirty in scene. “I kept painting,” he said, “but Schumaker went to work for a South his work owned by multi-millionaire it you don’t have a dirty mind.” I didn’t want to show it to anybody. I Bay paper company. collector Martin Margulies, famed Schumaker used the $400 to finish loved the abstract painters from the He’d by then married and had a painter/sculptor/printmaker Eric school. He soon left Nebraska, wind- time I was a kid. I had Pollock paint- son, Matthew. But his wife moved to F isch l…“and Rachel Maddow. Rachel ing up in San Francisco. He got an ings hanging on doors; my painting Italy; his son spent his early years with Maddow has five or six of my pieces,” apartment on Fillmore, and for a while looked like Rothko.” With no money her. “When Matt was six,” Schumaker he said.

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n May 20th we held a community meeting where we invited neighbors to share ideas Ofor the pedestrian greenway at 1601 Mariposa. Here are some of the possibilities!

Mosaics, sculptures and murals in greenway courtyard Expanded landscaped areas

Harness on-site water for a dynamic element in the landscape Multipurpose Green walls space for exhibitions, exercise and Views of performances Jackson Park

Urban furniture and chess tables throughout greenway

Idea bubble location does not represent amenity location on the greenway. This is one in series of updates we will be providing to the community.

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LETTERS from page 3 (2011) and Pacific Rim (2013), amid a host of other films. San Franciscans love to see are working hard to implement Vision their city on the Big Screen. The Zero, a plan to reduce and eventually highlight of the new Godzilla was, eliminate injuries and fatalities from for me, when the action shifted from traffic violence. Other groups in that Asia to San Francisco. Turns out coalition include Walk SF and the San Aaron Taylor-Johnson lived with Francisco Bicycle Coalition, the very his wife, Elizabeth Olsen, and son, demons responsible for promoting safer on my block. At least it appeared walking and cycling infrastructure. that way from outside shots of the If this all seems confusing, that’s home. The interior looked like no the point of an initiative that uses the San Francisco residence I’ve ever term “balance” to mean its opposite. seen. That exterior shot is appar- Supporting this initiative means op- ently the only actual City location posing measures to make our streets presented in the film. Discrepancies and sidewalks safe and accessible for like inauthentic BART signs, an all users: pedestrians, cyclists, transit “MTA” bus, and “Oakland Bay Area users, and—yes—drivers. The Potrero Park” corroborate the rumor that View can serve its readers better by Potrero Hill Stars in Movies, Television San Francisco scenes were shot in investigating wild charges before Vancouver. And, of course, there’s printing them. BY JIM VAN BUSKIRK Left to right: Bobby Cannavale, Max Casella and the usual misuse of the Golden Gate Woody Allen on set at the Ramp. PHOTOGRAPH BY A film shoot recently occurred Bridge, which in the film links San Fran Taylor, 26th Street JESSICA MIGLIO © 2013 GRAVIER PRODUCTIONS, COURTESY OF in the community garden across the SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Francisco to the East Bay. street from my San Bruno Avenue Apparently it’s expensive to flat. My initial annoyance at the “no film here. Dawn of the Planet of the parking” signs along my block was San Francisco as a whole, continues Apes was filmed primarily in British WARRIORS from page 14 quickly overcome by the pleasure to be famous for its role in movies, Columbia and New Orleans, which is I took in knowing that a location television, and commercials. Recent also being used in Terminator: Gen- scout or director appreciated my depictions of the City include the esis, starring Arnold Schwarzeneg- over here. Is there nowhere else to put neighborhood as an ideal location. I post-apocalyptic Book of Eli (2010), ger. San Andreas, featuring Dwayne the Warriors arena?” imagined characters wandering the Contagion (2012), Roland Emm- Johnson, depicting the aftermath of Janet Peterson is also skeptical of garden’s verdant labyrinth backed erich’s 2012 (2009), the Bollywood a devastating California earthquake, the Warriors arrival to Mission Bay. “I by panoramic views of the cityscape. disappointment 180 (2011), La Mis- is filming mostly in Australia. In am very concerned about traffic and On the day of the shoot I peered sion (2009), and Fruitvale Station Disney’s Ant Man Georgia stands in parking. There are only a few ways to from my window to see what was (2013) for San Francisco. get on and off Potrero Hill and they are going on. Aside from lots of trucks Has anyone counted how many It works both ways. Philip clogged already…” parked, and a crew running around, times the Golden Gate Bridge has Kaufman, who used local interiors Dan Redmond shared similar I saw little. I didn’t even find out the been destroyed? Prior to the latest and exteriors so authentically in concerns about parking, but when the name of the project. incarnation of Godzilla, the popular Warriors start playing in San Francisco It was just another day on site endured science fiction destruc- in 2018 he’s “looking forward to it.” Potrero Hill, which, along with tion in Rise of the Planet of the Apes FILMING page 29 20 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014

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The View asked career expert Mauri Schwartz to answer questions from job seekers.

Q: I’ve been getting a lot of telephone interviews which have gone really well and resulted in invita - tions for on-site face-to-face meetings. However, I can’t seem to get a job offer. I’m very capable of the positions, and feel sure that my answers are good, but they just aren’t comfortable with me for some reason. What should I do?

A: Managers hire employees for two reasons: they believe you can do the job and they’re comfortable with you and feel that you’ll be able to work well with the team. You probably are addressing the former to get past the phone screens and to an in-person meeting, but perhaps not the latter, since the main difference between a telephone and in-person in - terview may be how you physically present yourself.

Most people focus on trying to be more profes - sional during an interview than they are with friends. However, some go too far and are overly formal in language, tone, presentation, and even posture. This may be fine in financial institutions and consulting firms, but even then the interviewer wants to know you as a person.

In many work environments these days, especially startups, the culture is exactly the opposite from formal, though I recommend that you dress and pres - ent a step or two up from that culture. However, if your attire is too formal, your language too precise, and you sit rigidly on the edge of your chair, you may make the interviewers feel uncomfortable. It’s important that you match the interviewers’ voice Urgent Care tone and body language. You need to find a happy medium between being the best you can be profes- sionally and meeting your audience at their level. here in Potrero Hill

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hear is ear nostalgia. Radar and GPS TOURISTS from page 18 THE DADDY HANDBOOK made the horns obsolete years ago; they only go off to create the right all the while feeling guilty that I atmosphere. wasn’t lavishing my full attention want an argument, tell them you’re Busy Dad on her. from Los Angeles. For some reason, Babies might not know much, it annoys people. Sustainable Sustenance but they’re not stupid. It didn’t Whether the Weather San Franciscans are insufferable take long for Sara to pick up on my about food. According to legend there inattentiveness, and invent a game California is in a severe drought; are enough restaurant seats in the to—temporarily—overcome it. And I 2013 was the driest year on record. City for everyone in town to eat out at enjoyed it, at least for a while. There Rain is desperately needed, though once; just don’t try to get into Delfina was something delicious about let- most San Franciscans would just as without a reservation. A pile of kale ting my toddler stop me from doing soon bask in the warm sunshine. In that used to be pig feed is now an $18 anything. Over time, by cleverly the City by the Bay it’s not so much salad, foie gras has been outlawed, reminding me to just be still, she about whether it’s wet or dry, but and wine is what you do when you helped me break my work-obsessed the foggy cold summers. That might see the per glass prices. Reservations habits. To be, to use a perhaps over- be why San Franciscans dislike are needed ahead at the most popular used word, “present.” Southern California, where summer restaurants; without them waits can Most of the time, anyway. I still is indeed endless, especially if you’re be an hour or more. Don’t leave town check email, or try to get work done, stuck on a hot freeway. without trying Magnolia Brewing when Sara is busy playing or read- San Francisco boasts an average Company, Goat Hill Pizza, Pera, The ing while in my care. But when she temperature of 62.5 degrees. Inexpli- New Spot, Just for You, or Regalito’s. calls me on it I quickly put the phone cably—even to a native—the warmest Each in their way is a well-priced down, or save the message, and turn months are September and October. taste of San Francisco. my full attention to her. I don’t even Heat is rarely needed in the winter— think about cursing. just a few minutes to get the chill BY STEVEN J. MOSS out—and air conditioning is provided Oh, The Places You’ll Go by the fog. Don’t let the mid-day sun Handbook Tips: Distract- Detroit automakers may wince, “Lie down, Poppy,” three-year- and warm temperatures fool you. ing Your Child but there’s no need to rent a car dur- old Sara instructed me. “Pretend When the fog rolls in over the ocean ing your stay, unless you’re planning you’re deaded.” —Can stay-at-home professional and creeps down from Twin Peaks, it an out of town trip. Parking can I lay on my back on the rug work and taking care of your child can feel downright freezing. be scarce and expensive. There are and stuck my tongue out, in her co-exist? The short answer is, no, The fog tends to hover over spe- lots of ways to get around on public required pose. Sara knelt next to me, not unless you’re willing to rely on cific neighborhoods, typically sucked transportation, costing from a couple inspecting each of my body parts. that one-eyed monster, the television into the City by rising temperatures of bucks to upwards of $20 or more Sometimes she’d have a toy animal set, or, for modern fathers, the iPad. inland. It starts at the ocean and within the City. crawl over my leg or chest, like it was Assume for our purposes that you’re crawls toward the bay. Neighbor- We share, because we care. You climbing a mountain. a responsible dad; then what do you hoods near the Pacific—the Sunset, can ride-share, car-share, bike- “Don’t move!” she ordered, when do? Here’s a few ideas: Richmond, and Forest Hills—can be share, apartment-share, even part- I flexed an ankle. “Stay still!” 20 degrees colder than their sunny —Pretend you’re parallel play- ner-share, if you go to the right Sara loved this game. It wasn’t counterparts to the east; Potrero Hill, bar. Many locals shun taxis as an playing doctor, as she didn’t use her ing. Put your child in front of their the Mission, and South-of-Market. antiquated monopoly of rickety cars plastic medical instruments, and favorite toys; place yourself in San Franciscans never leave the and drivers who insist on cash pay- never diagnosed any shots or pills. front of one of yours, mostly likely house without a jacket or sweater. ment. Instead, there’s Uber, Sidecar, But during it she was able to keep a computer or smart phone. As you You can spot a tourist by the Golden and Lyft—which identifies its drivers me immobilized, under her control. “work” act all floppy and giggly, as Gate Bridge emblazoned on the with a giant pink furry mustache I wasn’t allowed to check my iPhone. if you’re enjoying yourself, taking sweatshirt they hastily purchased on the car’s front hood. Download If the telephone rang, I couldn’t a break every five to 10 minutes to when the sun disappeared and the the Uber, Sidecar, or Lyft app and answer it. I just had to lie completely gurgle loudly, or grab a desk object, temperature unexpectedly dropped register by entering a credit card, still and do nothing. though make sure it’s nothing you as fog blanketed the City. And since preferably yours. When you’re ready After Sara was born, I commit- actually need. Seeing you having the weather can change dramati- to go, click on the app, and request a ted to caring for her at least one day such a good time, your baby will do cally from one day to the next, San car. The app’s GPS system will know during the work week — sometimes the same! Caution: remember to hit Franciscans tend to be dressed for where you are and will tell you how managing two—and tried to be home the mute button when you’re on a yesterday’s weather. by mid-afternoon daily. It was a conference call. A fun fact: that fog horn you TOURISTS page 30 promise I wanted to make, to spend —Don’t do the dishes, take a time with my baby daughter, with shower, or shave, but if you have to, whom I’d fallen deeply in love. But do them all at once in the shower. By like many working parents, when I cutting out these extraneous activi- was with Sara my mind was often ties you’ll buy yourself time that you elsewhere, particularly in her first can dedicate to work. If your partner several months. As soon as she complains about the pile of plates seemed to be occupied by something in the sink, ask her if she cleans the – an interactive mobile, chewable kitchen in her office. Your love life rattles – I’d rush over to my computer might suffer, but, then again, what to squeeze in some work. Inevitably, love life? within minutes – sometimes seconds – Sara would get bored with her —If you work at an office, take activity – or hungry or messy – and your baby with you. Make sure she’s start crying. I’d curse under my dressed in her cutest outfit, and is breath, run back over to her, take clutching her most beloved stuffy. care of her needs, and hurry back to Sit her on your lap at your desk, the computer. and coo loudly. Before too long you It was no way to live. The stop- should be able to attract a 20-some- start process kept my irritability at a thing woman who’ll whisk the little low simmer, which sometimes boiled one off to the break room, giving you over as a result of sleeplessness. But I a chance to get some real work done. kept at it, compulsively trying to get This is an excerpt from The work done in between tending Sara, Daddy Handbook a book by View despite her regular shock treatments editor Steven Moss, sections from of crying right when I was in the which will appear in the paper middle of crafting an “essential” throughout 2014. He’s looking for message to a client or friend. I was a publisher for this work. Fellow caught between the gratification of parents are encouraged to write getting tasks done, and the pain of in with their experiences: editor@ being interrupted by my daughter, potreroview.net. 22 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014

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Through July Art: Camila Perez-Goddard, A Mother’s Love COMMUNITY CALENDAR Hill native Camila Perez- Goddard’s collection of paintings and illustrations from her newly published bilingual Live Music: July 26-27 book, A Mother’s Love, are on 18 Soul Delights Air: Berkeley Kite Festival display at Goat Hill Pizza. Camila The ever popular Soul Arrive where the earth, wind, wrote and illustrated the book in Delights always draw a crowd at and sky combine to create an response to the sudden death of Farley’s. Come enjoy the tunes. unequaled festival experience— her sister, who left behind a one- Free. 7:30 p.m. Farley’s, 1315- for the past 29 years. Watch year-old son. Her book can serve 178th Street. every kind of kite launched as a tool for bereaved children into the air for a colorful and in coping with death. Reception: Science: Market Days magical wind performance. July 20, 2-5 p.m. Free. Goat 19 at the Exploratorium The Berkeley Kite Festival is Hill Pizza Restaurant, 300 Explore the free known as one of the premier Connecticut Street. Information: open-air mini-festival that free family festivals on the West 641.1440. brings together museum Coast. Performances by Kite and community scientists, Team of Japan, and stunt kite Family: Farley’s Safe artists, and educators and flyers, Rokkaku Battles and Taiko 4 and Sane Fireworks features curated art and Dylan Platt Band. Activities Show science demos, hands-on will include: kite making, candy Forget the crowds and enjoy Ripple Effect, July 6th activities, exhibits, and craft drop, petty zoo, pony rides, arts an intimate fireworks show displays. 11 a.m.– 3 p.m. Free. and more. Kids of all ages will on 18th Street. Free. Fun for Exploratorium, Pier 15, Plaza, enjoy. Free. Cesar E. Chavez Park all ages. Sundown. Farley’s, July 11 through August 29 Information:exploratorium.org at the Berkeley Marina, Berkeley. 1315 – 18th Street. Information: Art: John Zaklikowski, Driven Information: email fest@ farleyscoffee.com Using discarded hard Family: highlinekites.com, call 510.235. drives, circuit boards, and 19 Paper Poetry Garden KITE or visit highlinekites.com Performance: miscellaneous electronic parts This workshop is 6 Ripple Effect as his primary working materials, inspired by the museum’s 26 Music: An Evening of Ripple Effect is Zaklikowski arranges these summer exhibition, Joe Brubaker Song Returns to St. a musical comedic tale of salvaged components into and The Exquisite Gardeners: Cyprian’s Church intersecting lives and cultures intricate geometric patterns A Visible Transparency Project. Since 1987, comic Merle Kessler that reflect the neighborhood to create epic wall hangings Joe’s work has been described and musician Joshua Raoul tensions that are polarizing San and furniture-scale sculptures. as “art that sparkles, shines Brody have been inviting a Franciscans today. Done in their Sometimes satirical, other and exists for its own sake like few dozen of their closest characteristic quick-change, times reverent; labyrinths and a three-dimensional poem.” friends to each sing a song singing and dancing, Commedia mandalic forms emerge from Take a self-guided tour of they’ve always wanted to dell’Arte political style, a cast of the 21st century technologist’s the exhibitions, then make a sing, but have never had the four, playing multiple characters, junk pile. Reception: July 11, 6-8 3D paper poetry flora using opportunity. The resulting show, tell the story of three very p.m. Free. Dogpatch Café and recycled books and book art called An Evening of Song, different women, all at a critical Art Gallery, 2295 3rd Street. techniques. Combine your is an embarassment — some life point, who find themselves Information: zaklikowski.com family’s creations to make your might call it a humiliation — in a boat on San Francisco Bay, own poetry garden. For families of riches, ranging from old brought together by chance. July 16 through August 16 of all ages. Free with admission. chestnuts to new originals, Although they perceive one Performance: Patterns 1 to 4 p.m. Museum of Craft jazzy instrumentals to a other as different, each is a Patterns, a breathtaking new and Design, 2569 Third Street. cappella Bulgarian folk songs, member of the working class comedy-drama that features Information: sfmcd.org sublime ballads to ridiculous and has been betrayed by a a series of magical vignettes novelties, all accompanied by system that rewards only those which flow from one to the next, July 24-August 10 Brody’s stalwart Experimental motivated by greed and self- each raising questions about Film: 34th Annual SF Jewish Love Orchestra. The singers interest. As they tell their stories, love: how a first love affects a Film Festival run the gamut from seasoned they discover through their person’s outlook on life; how the The first and still the largest professional to deer-in-the- failed hopes and aspirations pressure of love’s weight is felt; of its kind, the San Francisco headlight neophytes, with they’re more similar than they and how love can change one’s Jewish Film Festival continues most falling somewhere in the thought, and are connected awareness of time and space. to present the very best in middle. The result is a little in ways never imagined. In Performance artist and The independent Jewish cinema, bit Prairie Home Companion, solidarity, they refuse to let their New Stage founder, Amy Munz, offering a full complement a little American Idol, a little home town fall into the hands of uses a passionate combination of films, festivities, special Gong Show, and a whole lot of those who have no heart for it. of live performance and video discussion programs and something you’ve never heard Their actions will have a positive installation art to explore international guests that before. Tickets: $14 advance, Ripple Effect. 2 p.m. Free. Yerba a wider poetic, emotional highlight 5773 years of culture. $17 door. 7:30 p.m. St. Cyprian’s Buena Gardens, Mission and landscape. Munz’s work is The festival kicks off with Nadav Church, 2097 Turk. Information: Third streets. Information: sfmt. framed by a larger movement Schirman’s documentary The noevalleymusicseries.com org or email lhelman@sbcglobal. of artists who are responding Green Prince, the opening night net to computer network structures film at Sundance and the winner Music: and to the dominant way of of the world documentary 30 Matt Bacnis Band July 8-10 searching that has been fostered audience award. The festival Matt Bacnis Band is a Performance: by the internet. Patterns is an also presents Pepe Danquart’s southern influenced pop band Kids Day at Stern Grove exciting contribution to this film Run Boy Run. Based on from Seattle, Washington. San Francisco Ballet Center fresh genre that explores a a true story, the film tells the Known for their unique blend for Dance Education invites dendritic way of thinking and harrowing tale of a young of gospel, country and pop, the everyone to share in the love of imagining. $30. 7 to 8:30 p.m. man as he struggles to evade band captivates their listeners dance from all corners of the French American International capture by the Nazis and ward with catchy melodies mixed globe and honors the dancer in High School, 66 Page Street. off starvation. Dozens of other with a campfire sing-along all of us. Free. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Information: TheNewStage.com wonderful films not to be groove. Since their start in 2012, Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and or call 800.838.3006. missed. Ticket price and location the band has played on Seattle Sloat Boulevard. Information: varies. Information: call Box radio, toured the west coast and sterngrove.org/home/ Office, 621.0523 or visit sfjff.org issued a music video, Southern education/kids-days for full schedule. Belle. Free. 8 p.m. Farley’s, 1315 – 18th Street. Information: farleyscoffee.com 24 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014 Jewish Film Festival Returns

BY JIM VAN BUSKIRK to view interesting films that they aren’t likely to see anywhere else. Only ten There’s a joke about this month’s of the seventy films programmed for movie event: the Jewish Film Festival currently “What’s the name of the Jewish Film have plans for distribution, including Festival?” through NetFlix. And there’s little “Hollywood!” overlap between festivals. For example, The gag turns on the notion that Regarding Susan Sontag, directed by many notable Hollywood producers Berkeley resident Nancy Kates, focusing and directors are Jewish: Woody Allen, on the iconic international intellectual, Billy Wilder, and Mel Brooks, to name a secular Jew, plays both the Frameline a few. However, while some big-budget and Jewish film festivals, while Snails films may include Jewish involvement, in the Rain, a gay-themed film set in Tel the 34th Jewish Film Festival isn’t Aviv during the summer of 1989, wasn’t about Hollywood movies. Instead, the programmed by Frameline. festival offers a banquet of feature films, Rosenblatt and Moore estimated that documentaries, and shorts, along with thirty percent of their audiences aren’t a complement of discussion programs, Jewish, a percentage that’s increasing international guests, music, comedy, annually. They’d like to attract a younger awards and celebrations. crowd, since their core constituency is Festival program director Jay Rosen- aging. Though the festival doesn’t have blatt is an internationally recognized film a full-fledged distribution department, director, teacher, and former psychother- selected films will be made available via In additional to the many interna- apist. Programmer Joshua Moore, who Video On Demand on its website. tional offerings, local filmmakers are lives with his fiancée on Potrero Hill, is The programmers emphasized that represented by Abby Ginzberg’s Soft an independent filmmaker, whose debut the festival offers a unique experience Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New feature, I Think It’s Raining, premiered for viewing film. Not only can movies South Africa and the world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film be seen in a beloved theater with a of Richmond District residents’ Marcia Festival in 2011. According to the pair, like-minded audience, most programs Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s Havana the festival is a “secular synagogue,” a feature the film’s director, subject and/ Curveball, following their 13-year old son community event that’s as important or star. The experience is distinct from Mica’s commitment to deliver baseball to cinephiles as participating in Jew- watching movies at the multiplex or at equipment to kids in Cuba. ish High Holiday services are for the home. All festival programs include a This year the festival expands from religious. personalized iPhone introduction by the one week to ten days, July 24 through There are a plethora of film festivals filmmakers, and often a musical com- August 10, at venues throughout the Bay throughout the Bay Area, including San ponent. For example, Comedy Warriors, Area: San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, Ci- Francisco International, DocFest, Indie in which military veterans use stand-up néArts in Palo Alto, Grand Lake Theater Fest, Silent, Center for Asian American comedy to deal with the trauma of their in Oakland and the Christopher B. Smith Media, Berlin and Beyond, Frameline, disabilities, features Lewis Black and Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Spe- Women’s, and Women of Color. Large Zach Glifianakis. Jewish vets will attend cial events are scheduled at the Berkeley or small, each has its focus, and devoted the screening, which will be followed by Repertory Theater, Rayko Photo Center following. Many people attend multiple a live performance by real-life comedy and the New Parkway Theater. festivals, attracted by the opportunity warrior Joe Kashnow. Moore and Rosenblatt could only think of one film at the festival that has Hollywood connections: Nancy Spiel- Top, Centerpiece Narrative flm Run Boy Run. berg’s — Steven’s sister — documentary Middle, 112 Weddings Bottom, Theodore Bikel: Above and Beyond: The Birth of the In The Shoes Of Sholem Aleichem. Showing Israeli Air Force. July 31st at the Castro Theater with Theodore For more information, contact the Box Bikel in attendance. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY Office at 621.0523 or visit www.sfjff.org. SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL July 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 5 SEE OUR PROGRESS in the Potrero Hill Area

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CALTRAIN from Front Page details required for bomb-making Double Feature Film and execution are featured; the motivations of the activists much we won’t need to have as much time and less so. Small asides and fragments distance between trains.” Review: Keeping It Real of conversation provide context for Because the trains will be able to the events and reveal some of the stop and start more quickly, additional BY RICK ALBER ecuted by a solid cast. Much is made characters’ thoughts. Reichardt stations will be served. The trip from of an unintended pregnancy and how shows confidence that the viewer San Jose to San Francisco will take the Big-budget blockbusters are fine Donna handles the abortion decision will deduce the details; she’s mostly same amount of time, but will stop more for their exciting demonstration of – without moral quandary – but the right. frequently. “Although most of our trains computer and explosive effects. But film’s heart is the natural portrayal Night Moves gets tripped up in are nearing full capacity, but our most I’m drawn to personal stories that of how unexpected love can bloom. its second half, after the bombing popular trains with highest demand are play out in a realistic, natural way, Obvious Child dances at the edge preparation. The activists, particu- what we call our baby bullet express without paranormal or surrealistic of sentimentality and bad taste, but larly Josh (Eisenberg), have to deal train,” Ackemann said. “They make the plot twists. I indulged my passion more often than not the scenes rang with risky complications and forge trip between San Jose and San Francisco for natural films this month with true and the characters behaved like, a new, unexpected relationship. in just under an hour; they only make two flicks that tell small, but moving well, real people. While the acting is steady, the lost, about six to eight station stops during stories. One, a comedy, succeeds bril- Obvious Child takes its title ambiguous portrayal of Josh in the the entire trip.” liantly. The other, a thriller, has its from a Paul Simon song that high- first half of the film works against Electrification also allows Caltrain moments but ultimately falls short. lights a raucous love-making scene the plot line in the second. No actor to rethink its schedule to either serve Obvious Child was written for and is one of several great musical does deep-thinking concern and more stops within the same time period, and stars comedienne Jenny Slate. selections made by Robespierre. At angst better than Jesse Eisenberg, or keep the same number of stations but Jenny portrays Donna Stern, a the end of the film I didn’t feel ma- but his portrayal of the brooding, make the trip faster. “There are some stand-up comic much like herself nipulated or offended by a tacked-on silent, Josh comes off as shallow. exciting potential benefits that we can who is brutally personal – and happy ending. Instead, I felt like I’d Josh is the pivotal character for the get out of electrification, we don’t have funny – on stage but flits through loitered with interesting people with events after the bombing, but even anything like a final schedule yet, so we life relying on an acerbic wit, toilet whom I could spend another hour or after an intimate hour together I don’t know exactly what that will look humor, confidence and a silly laugh. two exploring the human condition. didn’t know enough about what like in terms of service,” Ackemann said. Her Brooklyn home life unravels That’s what I like in films. drives him to care deeply. With the changes, Caltrain expects over a weekend when she loses her Night Moves retains its ground- ridership to increase dramatically, even job, boyfriend, and apartment. Enter I had high expectations for Night ing in reality though out, helped by though the line is already experiencing Max (Jake Lacy from The Office), a Moves, a new film by Kelly Reich- graceful, leisurely camera pans and the highest ridership the system has seen waspish, twenty-something who is ardt, whose previous works, Wendy eerie ambient music. Production in 150 years of service. “[R]ight now, we button-downed where Donna is any- and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff, were values are high, even on a shoe- have trains that are at standing room thing but. Attraction ensues, awk- minimal-dialogue, thinking films string budget. If the story presented only during the peak commute hours...so wardness reigns, and the film enters that spun compelling stories out of characters that seized our hearts or we have some very crowded trains, and if the well-worn rom-com terrain. minor events. The first half of Night made a strong political statement we’re able to offer more service then not What follows is enchanting, with Moves unwinds the interesting story for or against eco-terrorism, I might only are we going to be able to attract laugh-out-loud humor and realistic of eco-terrorists (Jesse Eisenberg, consider it a strong success. As it is, more riders, but we’re going to be able to romantic turns fostered under the Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sars- rent it for the acting and don’t expect better accommodate the crowds that we direction of first-time feature film- gaard) making preparations to bomb much more than that. maker Gillian Robespierre and ex- a small Oregon dam. The technical CALTRAIN next page

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The Women’s Community Mural Celebrates the History Center at and Hopes for Potrero St. Luke’s On Saturday, June 14, over 100 people enjoyed the sunny weather and a delicious lunch can help. from Hard Knox Café at the Potrero Community Mural Celebration and Dedication. The event marked the unveiling of the latest public art in the neighborhood. Located at the Potrero Hill Health Center at 1050 Wisconsin Street, the mural is sponsored by BRIDGE Housing Corporation, in cooperation with Potrero Hill Health Center, Precita Eyes Muralists Association and Center, and the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House (NABE).

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WOMEN’SST. LUKE’ CENTERS WOMEN’PrecitaS CENTER Eyes is a community-based mural arts fve elements (earth, water, wind, fre, and organization that seeks to enrich and beautify metal). Surrounding the mural are the MEETMEET & GREET & GREET urban environments and to educate communities names of Potrero Hill political, cultural, and social leaders. ��������������������������������������� about the process and history of public community ����������������������������������������������������mural art. Precita Eyes led over 50 community In addition to community members, several ��������������������������������������� Tuesday, July 8 ���������������������������������������������members through two design workshops to civic, health, and nonproft leaders were in 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. ������������������� elicit ideas, images, and themes for the mural. attendance to commemorate this special • ����������������������������� In May, Potrero Terrace and Annex residents, occasion. Emily Weinstein, BRIDGE’s ������������������������������� Director of Potrero Community and Housing ����������������� other community members, and Potrero Health �������������������������������� ���������������������• ������������������� Development, opened up the ceremony Center staff came out for a full day of painting. before passing it off to Malia Cohen, District ��������������������� ����������������������������������������• �������������������������������������� The mural refects Potrero Hill’s past, 10 Supervisor; Jan Gurley, Potrero Hill ������������������������ ���������������������������������������������������������������� present, and future, including institutions Health Center Director; Edward Hatter, ������������� ������������������������������������� such as Starr King, Daniel Webster, Potrero Neighborhood House Executive Director; • �������������������������������������������Recreation Center, and the NABE. It also and other community participants. Each ���������������������������� Call 415-641-6911 includes images of children in the walking speaker expressed their thanks and �������������������� appreciation for the new mural and for more information and to school bus, the now discontinued 53 bus line, and the Texas Street Farm. There encouraged the community to support and reserve your space cpmc.org/stlwomen are symbols representing diversity, nature, strengthen valuable resources such as the and love, including a pregnant woman Health Center and the NABE, so they can cpmc.org/stlwomen encircled by five hands symbolizing the continue to serve all residents of Potrero Hill. For more information, visit our website at rebuildpotrero.com or e-mail us sutterhealth.org at [email protected] July 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 7

CALTRAIN from previous page Caltrain commuter, Fred Tarabout, 29, agreed. “This is great news in my opinion, and that update is long overdue. already have,” Dunn said. On an average Caltrain’s diesel engines are polluting View from the Past weekday, Caltrain has roughly 52,000 antiques! I wish they could deal with the riders daily. It expects that number to overcrowding sooner as this is seriously jump to 69,000 with modernization. getting worse every year. No idea how it’ll A regular Caltrain commuter, Hill go by 2019; the train is already so packed resident Michael Fitzsimons, 33, said he’s at rush hour ... especially for bike riders excited that efforts are being made to that can’t always get a spot for their bike.” improve the rail line, but he’s concerned Other Hill residents are more op- about bicycles. “I know from personal timistic. Santhi Analytis, 29, said she experience that these trains are beyond hopes the process is smooth and creates capacity for bikes already. More ridership a ripple effect. “Ideally, this will pave generally will just make this worse if no the way for more lines and extended additional accommodation is made.” services, including connecting to the East Caltrain said because it hasn’t begun Bay. It would be great if it prompts other the procurement process for the electric environmentally sound and highly an- multiple units it can’t determine how ticipated public transportation projects, many bikes will be accommodated on such as the SF to LA high speed line.” board the new trains. Caltrain’s modernization program, Hill resident Robert Chen, 29, echoed costing $1.5 billion, is funded through Fitzsimons’ concerns. “As much as a nine-party agreement that leverages Rose Marie Sicoli-Ostler’s Letter to the Editor in last month’s View, Caltrain has been an important mode local, regional, and federal funding to bemoaning upcoming changes to the long-established 22-Fillmore of transportation for me, I’ve had my match $705 million in voter-approved route, inspired a little research. The line began operation in 1895, share of frustrations with Caltrain. It high-speed rail bond revenues. running streetcars from Bay and Fillmore to 16th and Bryant. is often delayed, sometimes up to hours Sometime prior to 1905, the route was extended from 16th and due to various issues, including frequent Bryant to 23rd and Third. The 22 was the first streeatcar line to re- mechanical problems. Also, the trains are sume service following the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. In 1925 it PIER 70 from page 9 getting increasingly crowded and I can was lengthened on the other end, from Bay Street to Marina Boule- barely find any place to stand during vard. After July 31, 1948, the 22 converted to the “trackless trol- rush hours. Furthermore, I used to bring helped pass Proposition B last month, leys” we know today. The streetcar tracks were all gone by the ear- my bike into Caltrain and bike the last supports Forest City’s proposed mea- ly 1960s. This photograph—from the Tom Gray collection—of two stretch to work, but I stopped doing that sure. Agnos lauded several of the Number 22 streetcars at 18th and Missouri streets has long been in since these days it’s impossible to get project’s goals, including the creation of the Potrero Hill Archives Project’s files. The “cow-catchers” Rose your bike on to the train due to extremely 10,000 jobs, the potential for additional Marie remembers from her childhood are in evidence. Handwritten limited bike space.” Chen said he’d affordable housing in the City, and on the back is a date, 1948. We’ve assumed that the photo was welcome electrification if it alleviates plans to preserve the Noonan Building taken that year to document the end of streetcars on the Hill. But these issues. “In fact, 2019 seems awfully artist community. now, several details—including the cars’ white fronts and their far away and I really wish it can happen “You put that package together,” northern destination—lead us to believe it was taken in about 1940. sooner,” he said. Agnos said. “I think that is a spectacu- —Abigail Johnston, Potrero Hill Archives Project. Another Hill resident and frequent lar piece of work.”

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Potrero Dogpatch Merchant’s Association meets the second Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. at Goat Hill Pizza, corner of Connecticut and 18th streets. Visit www.potrerohill.biz or call 341.8949. Next meeting: July 8th, 10 a.m.

Potrero Hill Democratic Club meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more information: 648.6740, www.PHDemClub.org. Next meeting: July 1st, 7 p.m.

Potrero Hill Garden Club usually meets the last Sunday of the month at 11 a.m. for a potluck lunch in a local home or garden. Discussions are held on organic, edible, or ornamental gardening appropriate for Potrero Hill’s microclimate. Call 648.1926 for details. We are your local paint Store. 150 Pennsylvania Ave. 415.431.6940 Pennsylvania Street Gardens has volunteer workdays the first Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon. We meet at Pennsylvania Garden, 251 We carry Benjamin Moore, Farrow & Ball Pennsylvania Avenue, and provide all the necessary tools and training. and much more, plus everything you’ll We’d love to see you at the gardens. For more information visit our website need to make your project a success psgsf.org or email Emily at [email protected]. Next volunteer days: July 5th. including expert advice!

Starr King Open Space The Starr King Open Space Board Meeting is on we’lle$10 Monday July 21 from 6 to 7:30 PM in the meeting room of the Public Potrero Branch Library. Thank you for your continued donations and support, for e$50e more information: webiste starrking openspace.org, email starrkingboard@ gmail.com, or voicemail 633.6756.

Thank you Pennsylvania Gardens.

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FILMING from page 19 at the Cadillac Agency and Palace Hotel in San Francisco,” according to an obituary published in Jweekly. com. She spent two weeks in the San Invasion of the Body Snatchers Francisco County Jail on a trespass- (1978), shot much of the television ing charge. movie Hemingway and Gellhorn Meadows remained politically (2012) locally, much as he did The active throughout her life. As she Right Stuff (1983), in which Bay Area aged she’d tell Susan that the latest sites cleverly appear as national and campaign would be her last. But international locations. within weeks after the conversation San Francisco was abuzz when Meadows would be spending hours Woody Allen was in town shoot- on another cause. Before her death ing Blue Jasmine. According to a she worked to elect President Barak Hollywood Reporter article, “San Obama, “the fulfillment of a lifelong Francisco has been his favorite Jerrie M. Meadows dream,” said Danny. But it’d be his city outside of New York ever since mother’s last major campaign. On he did stand-up comedy at the (1925 - 2014) June 5 both the California Senate Hungry I during the 1960s.” He set and Assembly adjourned in memory his first film, Take the Money and Political activist and former De Haro Street resident Jerrie M. Meadows of Meadows. Run (1968), here, and returned with “She loved to travel,” Danny Diane Keaton to make Play it Again, passed away peacefully in her Emeryville home on May 29. She was 88. said. “She was on every inhabited Sam (1972). Allen is quoted as say- Born in 1925, to Herschel and Sonya Silverstone, Meadows helped Enola continent.” Her travels took her to, ing, “It was strictly an indulgence among other places, Peru, Costa because I could walk the streets, eat Maxwell become the executive director of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood Rica, France, Spain, Portugal and at the restaurants and wake up every House. Even after she moved to Berkeley in 1972 she stayed connected South Africa in the post-apartheid morning looking at the bay.” to Potrero Hill. Allen Meadows, her second husband, was a NABE board era. She traveled with her children, In Blue Jasmine Cate Blanchett alone, and with Danny’s two daugh- comes to stay with her sister, Sally member until recently. ters, Lucy and Hannah. Hawkins, whose apartment is above Surviving her are her husband the New Central Café, located at Allen, Susan, Daniel, and grand- the corner of 14th Street and South “She was a real activist,” said her Meadows was a member of the daughters Lucy Yanow and Han- Van Ness. Ironically, a guitar store, daughter Susan Yanow. According to Communist Party until that ideology nah Yanow. The family will hold a supposedly in Oakland, is played her son, Danny Yanow, his mother grew out of favor in the United States celebration of Meadows’ life on July by Real Guitars, famous as the best never stopped believing that the in the 1950s. But she remained a lefty 19, and is asking those interested secondhand guitar shop in San world could be made a better place. at heart. Danny said his mother knew in attending to get in touch with a Francisco, almost around the corner Meadows married Harold Yanow many people on Potrero Hill from her family member. at 51 Lafayette. In one scene the two in 1946. The partnership produced days in the Party. He said his mother The Access Women’s Health sisters, along with Bobby Canavale Susan and Danny, who were raised was a “dreamer,” which led her to Justice Fund and the Potrero Hill and Max Casella—who seem more on the Hill. Both attended Patrick get involved in social justice issues, Henry Elementary School, the cam- such as the African-American Civil Neighborhood House Youth Fund pus of which is now occupied by Rights Movement. In the 1960s Mead- are accepting donations in memory FILMING page 30 Downtown High School. ows was arrested during “sit-ins of Meadows.

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Through April, the City’s total takes techies to their cubicles in crime rate, a combination of violent Silicon Valley. CRIME & SAFETY REPORT and property crime, was 20.21 per There’s a television commercial 1,000. Violent crimes include homi- from the 1960s that features a cable SPONSORED BY MAINLINE SECURITY cide, rape, robbery and aggravated car and a slightly annoying jingle: assault. Property crimes include, “Rice-A-Roni…the San Francisco among others, burglary, automo- treat.” Fortunately, the commercial bile theft, theft from a vehicle and is no longer on the air. But cable Crime Statistics on the Hill arson. In the Bayview District the cars are still a San Francisco treat. total crime rate was 16.86 per 1,000 Locals don’t ride them; the routes BY KEITH BURBANK from three arrests in 2012. Citywide, through April 2014. are limited, they’re excruciatingly San Francisco experienced 48 homi- slow, they’re cold if it’s foggy out, San Francisco’s Bayview Police cides in 2013, and 69 in 2012. Most and they’re usually jam-packed with District, which includes Potrero of these remain unsolved; each year tourists. That said, cable cars are Hill, experienced its fifth murder of police made 21 arrests. TOURISTS from page 20 awesome, as are the old-timey street the year last month. The homicide The first murder of the year in cars that ply the Castro, Market, and occurred on the 1000 block of Con- the district took place in March at Embarcadero. necticut Street. Police responded Egbert Avenue and Ingalls Street in many minutes—usually less than Pack your bags—don’t forget a to the scene about 10 a.m. June 17, Bayview, the neighborhood where five—before your driver arrives. You hoodie—bring your appetite, and to find a male victim with gunshot two others occurred. Three of the can also watch a cute icon of your stop by the ATM on your way to wounds to his upper body. The man homicides occurred in May. In the driver’s car as it moves along the the airport. We look forward to was transported to San Francisco first six months of 2013, the district map in a decidedly cartoonish way. welcoming you to our beautiful City General Hospital, where he was recorded five murders. Many of us hold our phones up like by the Bay! pronounced dead. Police said they Through April, the latest month a lighter at a 1980s concert so the have no suspects; the case is under for which data are available, the vio- driver knows who we are and, upon investigation. lent crime rate in the Bayview District making contact, we promptly ask, In each of this year’s five ho- was 3.34 persons per 1,000 people. “Are you my Uber/Sidecar/Lyft?” FILMING from page 29 micides in the district guns were Citywide, the rate was 2.62 for the When you arrive at your destina- involved. Two took place on Potrero same period. For all of last year, the tion, thank your driver, jump out of Hill, including a May 20 shooting on rate in the district was 12.41 per 1,000 the car, and you’re good to go. No Turner Terrace. An arrest was made people, compared to 9.63 citywide. payment needed; the credit card “Jersey” than “‘Frisco” — are shown in the case, but the suspect was re- The Richmond District, which will be automatically charged based drinking—and arguing—at The leased pending further investigation. encompasses the area north of Golden on a set rate per mile/time. And no Ramp. Local talents Joy Carlin, Val The number of murders in the Gate Park and south of the Presidio, tipping, ever. You’ll receive an email Diamond, and Diane Amos appeared district has declined in recent years. had the lowest violent crime rate within seconds confirming the rate, in cameo roles. In 2004, the district experienced 29 through the first four months of this which is comparable, and often Showplace Square can be seen in homicides; last year there were 12. year, at 0.53 persons per 1,000 people. cheaper, than taxis. HBO’s Silicon Valley, though in a re- “The homicides are far fewer than The Southern District, which includes You’re getting into someone’s cent episode the filmmakers inserted there were,” the district’s captain, South-of-Market, Rincon Hill, and personal vehicle. Be nice. Your driver a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge Robert O’Sullivan, told The View. South Beach, had the highest violent will rate you based on a star system. just before the characters arrive at Last year police made five arrests crime rate: 13.73. The rate in the And you, conversely, will have the the San Francisco Concourse after in the district’s homicide cases, up Tenderloin District is 12.35. opportunity to rate your driver. Our driving north on Interstate 280. Ap- favorite ride-sharing app is Uber. parently, you’re not in the City unless Unless you want to arrive in high you’ve seen the Bridge. Looking style, select UberX; it’s cheaper than features The Stud on Ninth Street, a black car. Saint Francis Fountain and Punjab You can also tap into an automo- Restaurant on 24th Street, amidst bile-sharing service, which is a twist farther ranging locations. Other on the corporate car rental. Auto- recent series set in San Francisco sharing is designed to be convenient include ABC’s Nine Lives of Chloe for people who want to rent cars for King, NBC’s Journeyman, Fox’s short time periods. You can access a Alcatraz and NBC’s lamentable Love vehicle any time from a number of Bites. A recent French commercial parking pods. It’s more cost-effective for Citroën C4 shot on the hills of for locals and longer-term visitors, Potrero pays homage to the classic but if you want to try it download a chase scene in Bullitt. Zipcar, City CarShare, or Getaround Slated for August is Tim Burton’s app. Big Eyes, in which artists Walter and If you prefer to get around on Margaret Keane (Christoph Waltz pedals, buy a 24-hour or three-day and Amy Adams), inhabit North membership from Bay Area Bike Beach’s Grant Avenue transformed Share. There are kiosks throughout back to the 1950s. Similar to how the Bay Area; sign up, enter a code, the Castro was returned to the 70s wait for the green light, and pull the in Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008). bike out of the rack. After your trip There are an increasing number return the bike to any station. of resources on San Francisco mov- Within City limits the public ies available since Will Shank and I transportation system is called Muni, published Celluloid San Francisco: short for “Me, You, ‘n I, together in The Film Lover’s Guide to Bay Area one car,” and includes above- and Movie Locations in 2006. Christo- below-ground trains and electric- pher Pollock’s Reel San Francisco and diesel-powered busses. Muni is Stories: An Annotated Filmography easy, clean, safe, and cheap—$2 per of the Bay Area is a comprehensive ride for adults—but often slow and listing of more than 600 movies unpredictable, the latter referring to shot in San Francisco, in whole or some of the passengers. in part. World Film Locations: San BART—“Boy, Aren’t Rides Ter- Francisco edited by Scott Jordan rific!”—is what New Yorkers call the Harris, part of the World Film Loca- subway and Washingtonians name tions series, offers iconic images and the Metro. BART runs within City essays to highlight seven selected limits and to cool places outside San San Francisco films. And reelsf. Francisco, such as Berkeley or Daly com compares and contrasts film THE VIEW IS LOOKING FOR City. BART also goes to/from the San stills — “then” — with contemporary POLITICAL CARTOONISTS Francisco and Oakland airports. photographs—“now”—based on “San Caltrain is neither Muni nor email: [email protected] Francisco movie locations from clas- BART, but rather a real train that sic films.” color

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