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NOVEMBER 2014 Serving the Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission Bay and SOMA Neighborhoods Since 1970 FREE Publisher’s View: Changing Times BY STEVEN J. MOSS Although San Francisco’s population has grown at a more leisurely pace When I was five years old, at- than the rest of the state — there were tending kindergarten at Pioneer 715,674 souls here in 1970; roughly Elementary School in West Covina, 825,000 now — the City’s personal- roughly 18 million people lived in ity is constantly being made over. California. I walked to school from In the past forty years open fields a one-story four-bedroom bungalow and intermittent creeks in Mission built during the post-World War Bay and Potrero Hill, where unsu- II housing boom, most likely on a pervised kids explored nature and former walnut or orange grove, not played tag, have been paved over. long before my parents purchased it. Beloved businesses — The Daily By the time I graduated from the Scoop, the Greek restaurant S. Asi- University of California, Berkeley, makopoulos, and Klein’s Deli — have 17 years later, the state housed 25 closed or relocated. The area’s tight million people. Agricultural lands working-class Eastern European, and empty green spaces had been Irish, and Italian immigrant, and squeezed into a diminishing geog- later, African-American, communi- DETAIL OF UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY, ENTRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY, 1859, COURTESY DAVID RUMSEY MAP COLLECTION raphy, mostly in the Central Valley ties have been diminished by death, and far northern counties. Still, assimilation, and relocation, steadily Historical Maps Tell Hill’s Story unfettered by traffic, it never took replaced by third- or fourth-gener- BY ABIGAIL JOHNSTON View’s “McKinley Square” graphic more than 25 minutes to drive from ation Americans with ample folding AND PETER LINENTHAL novel serial by Simon Stahl. Berkeley to San Francisco over the money in their pockets, or stored in The discovery of gold in 1848 Bay Bridge. Today, there’s in excess their iPhones. The maps in this special View issue changed everything. San Francisco’s of 37 million Californians. Between Change is constant. The baby girl reflect Potrero Hill’s past and imagine population exploded, from 459 in 1847 when I learned to tie my shoes and I held in my arms a blink ago is now its future. As seen in map above, the to more than 30,000 in 1850. The Gold to master macroeconomics the state’s applying for high schools, and will Hill used to be a peninsula, bounded Rush prompted demand for gunpowder population had more than doubled. soon be leaving for college. The me of by Mission Bay to the north, San Fran- to blast rock in the mountains. Due Any adult who was raised in today would be barely recognizable cisco Bay to the east, with Islais Cove to an ordinance banning dangerous California has experienced a diz- to my younger self, with a hairline and Islais Creek—labeled Du Vrees industries in populated areas, two zying sense of dislocation, even Creek—to the south. (Interior land was if they’ve never moved from the not charted for this coast survey map.) MAPS page 16 neighborhood in which they grew up. PUBLISHER’S VIEW page 30 Native American Ohlone lived in the area for thousands of years, mov- housing units. These tend to be more ing seasonally between small villages Southside Neighborhoods Evolving Fast family-friendly — 35 percent of hous- to follow the cycle of food availability. BY RYAN BERGMANN next few years. ing is two bedrooms; 32 percent three In 1776, when Spain claimed the land San Francisco is undergoing rapid That doesn’t include 1,800 units that bedrooms or more — than the rest of the for its Mission San Francisco de Asis— economic and population growth, in could replace 600 dilapidated spaces City, with a lower percentage of studios. Mission de Dolores on the map—tradi- part prompted by recent changes in at the Potrero Annex-Terrace public In an effort to create more family- tional Native American life was forever land-use policies adopted to accom- housing complex. A draft environmental friendly housing, the Plan requires 40 altered. The Mission padres sought to modate housing demand. Between impact report for that project — dubbed percent of units in new developments to convert the Ohlone to Christianity; they 2010 and 2014, the City added roughly “Rebuild Potrero” — has just been re- have two or more bedrooms. Develop- also put them to work. A wall built by 20,000 people. The epicenter of this leased. The developer, Bridge Housing, ers have responded by adhering to the the Ohlone stretched from Islais Creek population boomlet is in the Southside hopes to break ground on the first of 40 percent rule as tightly as possible, to Mission Dolores to form a western neighborhoods: the Central Waterfront, three construction phases by the end of focusing mostly on two-bedroom spaces. border. Local historians and archeolo- Mission District, Mission Bay, Potrero next year. In total, nearly 4,000 new units Offerings of three-bedroom-plus units gists were disappointed several years Hill, eastern South-of-Market, and could be added to Dogpatch, Potrero are scant, making up just 50 — two per- ago when the restructuring of Potrero Showplace Square. These historically Hill, and Showplace Square in the next cent — of the 2,500 units in the construc- del Sol Park on Potrero Avenue just industrial areas were rezoned in 2008 decade, increasing the total stock in the tion pipeline. north of Cesar Chavez Street didn’t by the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, area by almost two-thirds. J.R. Eppler, Potrero Boosters Neigh- turn up any remnants of the old wall. which transitioned about half the land Based on 2012 data from the Ameri- borhood Association president, is con- The land thus enclosed became previously designated for industrial can Communities Survey, Dogpatch and known as Potrero Nuevo—New Pas- uses to mixed-use commercial-housing Potrero Hill presently have roughly 6,200 SOUTHSIDE page 16 ture —and was home to the Mission’s zones. The Plan took nearly a decade to livestock. After Mexico gained in- complete; it’s now ushering in what could Dogpatch and Potrero Hill More Family-Friendly Than the Rest of the City dependence from Spain in 1821, the be upwards of 10,000 new housing units 40% missions became a painful reminder to Southside San Francisco. 35% of Spanish authority. Gradually mis- Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, and Show- 30% Studio sion lands were secularized, and place Square have experienced a wave 25% transferred to well-to-do Mexican of high-density residential development, 20% 1 Bedroom 15% and Spanish settlers. In 1844, Potrero as bottled-up projects were unleashed 2 Bedroom 10% Nuevo was granted to two sons of San by passage of the Plan and the end of 3 Bedroom+ 5% Francisco’s first mayor, Francisco the 2008 Great Recession. Roughly 2,500 0% de Haro, a story documented in the units will be built in the area over the Potrero Hill/Central Waterfront SF Total 4 THE POTRERO VIEW November 2014

from, when he was six. After Brent worked as a draftsman, and painted graduated high school, he thought in his kitchen at night. In search of SHORT CUTS about going to art school, but the an affordable space that had room draft board had other plans. After enough for him to paint, he moved so a stint in the Navy, he arrived in often that he lost count. Eventually, San Francisco Bucket List lease…Irfan Yalçin, who runs Pera, San Francisco in 1967, drawn by the he landed at the Serta Building, a a tasty Mediterranean restaurant Beat artists and poets. He received former mattress factory at 23rd and Christopher’s Books and Aperto on 18th Street, is opening two new a master of fine arts from San Yosemite. More than thirty artists are featured in 100 Things to Do establishments: L’Emigrante at Francisco State University, study- lived there, forming a community in San Francisco Before You Die, 18th and Mission streets, where The ing with noted Bay Area sculptor where everybody looked out for one a new book that gives an insider’s Corner once stood, and a French bis- Stephen de Staebler, among others. view of neighborhood treasures, on tro next door to Weird Fish, which He raised his son as a single parent, SHORT CUTS page 33 sale, of course, at Christopher’s… will soon be closing. The wine bar Sensei Bill Stefanacci is offering launched last month at 2199 Mission free karate lessons Mondays and Street. The restaurant’s name is Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., from a movie about an Italian im- Letters to the Editor Saturdays 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the migrant coming to America, a fitting Potrero Hill Neighborhood House… title for Yalçin, who is a Kurdish Editor, munity benefits which we feel will help Red Bull’s Gravity Sports Event immigrant from Turkey. “With all Grow Potrero Responsibly recently mitigate some of the project’s impacts. will take place on De Haro Street the diverse ethnicities in Mission I organized a meeting with the 1601 Mar- Among our proposals: an onsite public between Southern Heights and 18th would like to bring wines around the iposa Street developer, Related, Inc., community center; active ground floor streets; 19th between Carolina and world at very affordable prices,” he and several community organizations, with commercial and retail space; ex- De Haro streets; and 20th Street said. Most bottles will cost between including Friends of Jackson Park, panded open space onsite; and Jackson between Carolina and Rhode Island $20 and $36. We’ll drink to that! Live Oak School, Save the Hill and Park clubhouse renovation and park on November 15, from morning the Homeowner Association for 18th improvements to be funded by targeted until 10:30 p.m…A petition directed and Arkansas, for the first of a series impact fees and Related. at District 10 Supervisor Malia San Francisco Lets Its of meetings to review and discuss the We’ve not offered our support in Cohen and Edward D. Reiskin, San Guard Down proposed development. In the “Short exchange for these proposed benefits, Francisco Municipal Transportation Cuts” column in the View’s September particularly as we haven’t yet seen the Agency (SFMTA) transportation The San Francisco Bay Guardian, issue it was suggested that Related led draft environmental impact report director, is being floated asking that which in its 1970s and 1980s heyday this effort, reporting that the developer which we hope will address some of some of SFMTA’s new hybrid bus slipped in many superlative investi- “floated” several ideas for benefits in the more egregious issues, includ- fleet be deployed to Potrero Hill, in gative pieces between its personals, exchange for a “go ahead.” ing hazardous materials and traffic. consideration of the pollution burden sex ads, and entertainment listings, In fact, Grow Potrero Responsibly Concerns such as overall height and imposed by the 101 and 280 freeways. died last month at the age of 48. took the initiative and did the leg- bulk haven’t yet been addressed. More Many of the current bus lines plying The San Francisco Media Company, work to pull together neighbors with meetings will follow; we continue to the area run on diesel, with engines which purchased the paper in 2012 different interests to find common invite community feedback. that work extra hard given the steep from Bruce Brugmann, published ground. We then contacted Related terrain. If you’d like to sign: http:// the final issue on October 15th. Led and presented them a package of com- Alison Heath, Mississippi Street petitions.moveon.org/sign/hybrid- by Brugmann’s strident hypocrisy, buses-for-potrero?source=s.icn. the Guardian long ago drifted into em.cp&r_by=11401939 a kind of thoughtless progressivism. With the exception of the paper’s Contributors to the View Map Issue insistent, quixotic tilting against Pinterest has Different Pacific Gas and Electric Company ABIGAIL JOHNSTON, a native New Yorker, was a Designs and support for notable politicians, Hill resident for 14 years but now lives a few blocks it stopped playing much of a role in west, in what she calls Baja Potrero Hill. A book Pinterest has dropped plans to move contributing to intelligent political designer and editor, and former View production its headquarters to the San Francisco debate sometime at the end of the editor, she works on the Potrero Hill Archives Project Design Center, which would have last century. Still, the idea of the with Peter Linenthal, with whom she co-authored displaced dozens of furniture show- Guardian will be missed. And, its two books on Potrero Hill history. room tenants. Instead, the company passing leaves the View, launched will expand into 100,000 square just four years after the Guardian, feet at 651 Brannan Street. Despite hoping that it will make it to an older PETER LINENTHAL, grew up in San Francisco the pivot, which was prompted by age than the former weekly. and moved to Potrero Hill in 1975—and has fond actions taken by Supervisor Cohen, memories attending preschool at the Neighborhood Design Center tenants remain in House in the early 1950s. He joined the Potrero Hill limbo, with many bereft of long-term Rest in Peace Archives Project in 1987, and loves searching for leases...After 51 years in business, stories and photographs of hill history. He teaches Leo’s Tire is closing its doors, to be Brent Bushnell, who was featured art Daniel Webster’s after-school program and replaced, in the short-term, by Skully in the October View (“Potrero Hill illustrates children’s books. Helmets. Soon enough the garage cum Artists Brent Bushnell and Sofia retailer will become a medium-rise Carmi Featured in Open Studios,”) FLETCHER FOTI, recently received a PhD in City mixed-use building…Rather than passed away on September 27 at Planning from UC Berkeley. His interests include be replaced by an upscale Japanese the age of 75. Brent was born in making dense environments more affordable, and restaurant, it appears that Dogpatch Los Angeles, but his family moved enabling lifestyles that are less car-dependent. Most of Café is going to be able to renew its to Utah, where his parents were his recent work involves understanding how real estate developers behave in expensive but highly regulated cities like San Francisco. He lives next to 16th Street with many thanks to the San Francisco Rent Board.

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owner-occupancy and available to Potrero Hill Property Prices Surge by 50 Percent purchase each year. San Francisco’s home market is less than half the size BY REBEKAH MOAN apartment is $4,600, according to the manager with Zephyr who concen- of Alameda’s. RentMethod June report. Just a year trates on the Hill. “The lower rates Melinda Lee, a Coldwell Banker It seems like everyone wants ago, the average house sold for $1.4 spur more buyers to get into market real estate agent, echoed Johnson’s to live in San Francisco, and that’s million; the average condo $766,000, because it’s cheaper to go in on,” she sentiments. “Many of the more reflected in residential rent and sales Johnson added. said. Another factor, according to desirable neighborhoods, Potrero prices. In Potrero Hill both have Prices aren’t likely to come down Johnson, is that high rents and low Hill being one, have pent-up buyer jumped by 50 percent over the past anytime soon, according to the interest rates have encouraged some demand from several years of very five years, according to several real realtors. San Francisco has recently owners who would have sold their low inventory,” she said. “Even when estate agents. In the last year alone added roughly 5,000 new residents homes to rent them instead. we do see a jump in available homes, prices rose by 20 percent. annually. New home construction Property owners are also renting typically after Labor Day, buyers Price increases are simply a mat- hasn’t come close to meeting the to tourists via Airbnb and similar waiting in the wings snap them up ter of supply and demand, according increased demand. Construction is sites. “This further depresses the right away. When everyone is looking to Susan Olk, a real estate agent with booming — particularly in the South- supply of new listings coming on at the same six properties, competi- Zephyr Real Estate. For the Hill the side neighborhoods — but it’s going to market, exacerbating the inventory tion hikes up the prices, and buyers issue is low inventory. “People move take several years before enough new shortage: 2013 to 2014 for the first from the tech sector often have ready here and they don’t want to leave,” units arrive on the market to impact half, the number of new MLS listings cash.” Olk said. prices. is down 7.5 percent, when higher According to Olk, the Hill has Noe Valley, comparable to the San Francisco has the highest prices would typically be expected the lowest inventory she’s ever seen, Hill’s north slope in terms of property number of employed residents in its to increase it,” Johnson said. which drives prices up. But there’s prices, is a bigger area and there’s history, and job numbers continue to Many Silicon Valley workers more inventory available now than more transience. People move more grow. The S&P 500 is up more than want to live in the City. “San Fran- there was in the spring, she added. often, freeing up more homes from 50 percent since 2011 — though it has cisco, a small city of seven by seven “There’s been a bit of buyer burnout, which to choose. “With Potrero they wobbled lately. The City has one of miles, is now the capital of perhaps so there’s more inventory available.” just don’t,” Olk said. “There’s not the country’s wealthiest populations; the fastest growing, most lucrative, The realtors generally agreed that the much turnover per se, compared with when people are richer, they spend highest-prestige business segment,” only way housing prices are likely to Pacific Heights, or Bernal Heights. more on homes, second homes, and Johnson said. “It is also in one of drop is through a macro change, like “People want to live here because of real estate investments. Thousands the most beautiful, best educated, an earthquake or recession. the weather, views, and particularly of newly affluent residents have been most tolerant, and culturally rich “Potrero Hill has seen enormous now, access to Caltrain.” created in the Bay Area in recent metropolitan areas in the world. That changes, even over the 12 years I’ve The average house price these years, which is supercharging the makes the City a magnet for smart, been in real estate, and it continues days is $1.7 million, according to “wealth effect” on the market. creative, ambitious people from all to evolve and stay current,” Lee said. Tim Johnson, a real estate agent with The average interest rate on a 30- over the planet, and they are willing “What has not changed is the desir- Paragon Real Estate Group that has year fixed rate loan has fallen from to pay a premium to live here.” ability of the neighborhood, and the an office on the Hill. The average 6.3 percent between 1996 and 2006 Almost two-thirds of the City’s reasons people want to live here: the condominium sells for $987,000, but to 4.1 percent last August. The 35 housing stock consists of rental small-town feel, the interdependence drops to $952,000 if sales at the new percent drop makes a significant dif- units, 170,000 of which are under rent between residents and local busi- development at 415 De Haro — “Onyx” ference in affordability and housing control, according to the San Fran- nesses, the artistic community, and –are excluded, Johnson said. Average costs, according to Christine Doud, a cisco Rent Board. That constrains our commitment to maintaining a monthly rent for a two-bedroom real estate agent and assistant sales the number of homes suitable for thoughtful quality of life.” 6 THE POTRERO VIEW November 2014

Above, Irish Hill, in the upper right hand corner, Irish Hill: Gone, and Mostly Forgotten shown around 1927. COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NHP, BETHLEHEM STEEL, SHIPBUILDING DIVISION, SAN BY STEVEN HERRAIZ pensive land, proximity to the City’s FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. PHOTOGRAPHS A11.16499.01 Left, populace, access to rail lines, and deep Irish Hill shown in black before development, and San Francisco is known for its waters just offshore. Several blast- now, in white, after development. COURTESY OF hills, including Potrero. In the City’s ing powder manufacturers, Tubbs POTRERO HILL ARCHIVE PROJECT. short history since it was settled by Cordage — a rope manufacturer — the European immigrants, those hills City Gas and Light Company — which have been shaved off, cut into, built would evolve into Pacific Gas and in the neighborhood, said “You went upon, and, in some cases, obliterated. Electric Company — a whale and seal up on Irish Hill when you got off work Yet, however changed, each promon- oil refinery, and Pacific Rolling Mills, and you never left it until morning.” tory has retained its name, and some the West Coast’s first steel mill, all Places like the White House, Paddy evidence of its previous residents. located on the point. In 1883, Union Kearns’ Hotel, the Brooklyn House, There’s one mostly unknown hill, Iron Works relocated to Potrero Point, the Mechanics’ Exchange, the Mon- which, in the past, could easily have its first buildings surrounded by the terey House, and the Union Hotel been seen from Potrero Hill, looking steep cliffs of Irish Hill to the north, housed, fed, and often lubricated the east toward the Bay: Irish Hill, whose south and west. men of Irish Hill. At the crest of Irish streets, buildings, and residents dis- Despite its noise and pollution, Hill at Sierra and Maryland streets, appeared nearly ninety-six years ago. poor immigrants settled on Irish Mike Boyles’ Steam Beer Dump A fragment of Irish Hill remains; Hill because of its proximity to the hosted bare-knuckle boxing matches a craggy, shorn slope of blue serpen- industries that hired them. In 1892, in the intersection every Saturday tinite rock that’s visible from Illinois Union Iron Works employed 1,200 to Street. The hill rises gradually along 1,500 men, many of whom could walk IRISH HILL page 29 Michigan Street — which no longer ex- to work from Irish Hill, Dogpatch, and ists, but ran one block east of Illinois Potrero Hill. this upper part of Irish Hill. At the Street — between Shasta Street be- Irish Hill was bounded on the northern end was a small business tween Shasta Street, now 21st Street, north by Napa Street, now 20th , south district, built on the flatter lands and Sierra Street, now 22nd. by Sierra Street, west by Illinois near Napa and Illinois streets, which Irish Hill was a seven-block Street and east by San Francisco Bay. housed more boarding houses, hotels, square, working-class neighborhood Several streets that no longer exist saloons, residences and grocery/liquor situated between Dogpatch and the ran parallel to Illinois Street toward stores. Most of Irish Hill’s streets were Bay. It rose to an elevation of 90 feet. the Bay. In order from west to east unpaved, which made traveling them Inhabited as early as 1861, years these streets were: Michigan, Georgia, after a rainstorm challenging. Ac- before Dogpatch or Potrero Hill were Louisiana, Maryland, and Delaware. cording to Sanborn Fire Maps, some settled, its development was largely According to one legend, the City of its streets were either ‘not opened’ triggered by the completion of Long named the streets of Potrero Hill and or ‘impassable.’ Other streets came to Bridge in 1867, which crossed Mis- outer Mission after states to ease the a dead end mid-block, stopped by the sion Bay and linked downtown San homesickness felt by the many recent hilly terrain. Francisco to Potrero Point, a rocky arrivals to San Francisco. Because of the number of single promontory that jutted into the Bay Two compact, distinct areas made men who lived there, most of Irish at the terminus of what’s now 23rd up Irish Hill. At the southern end, Hill’s businesses were private and Street. several boarding houses, saloons public boarding houses, hotels, and Long Bridge hastened the emer- and sixty cottages overlooked Union saloons. Interviewed in 1946, Billy gence of large industrial areas in Iron Works from the 90-feet-high hill Carr, a sheriff’s deputy who grew up southeast San Francisco. In the 1850s on Sierra Street, between Georgia and 1860s, heavy industries were and Maryland streets. Ninety-eight drawn to Potrero Point by its inex- steps had to be negotiated to reach

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Spread the word—Maintain + Repair your car locally. November 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 7 Getting in Front of Technology BY COURTNEY CLOUSE he leaned over his computer. “That’s Mark,” she said proudly. “He went to On a foggy day in San Francisco’s Yale and Carnegie Melon and he could sunniest neighborhood, I walked have done anything he wanted, but he south on Mississippi Street, from 17th came here and owns a toy company that toward Mariposa. It’s a quiet block; designs toys for children with autism.” except for the cars rolling on and off Like many San Francisco neigh- the Interstate-280 Mariposa ramp. The borhoods, tech plays a huge role in the only significant pedestrian activity is way the Hill is changing. New compa- about halfway up the street, at Front, nies are moving in all of the time. Some a small garage-turned-café. big technology names, like Change.org, The café serves some of the are based in the community. Google neighborhood’s best coffee, and recently purchased Autofuss, a robot- brings a community aura to the ics and video design and production street. Tasha, who’s been a barista company headquartered in the same at Front for some time now, used building as Front. to live on Potrero Hill, but recently Much of the growth in the area has relocated to the Mission. “It simply been sparked by the University of Cali- got too expensive,” she noted. fornia, San Francisco. Over the past 10 Christopher, working alongside years, UCSF has brought a variety of Tasha, moved to San Francisco from new restaurants and housing options to Portland to work at the cafe. He was the area. It’s undoubtedly more exciting attracted by the fact that Front roasts now, but rent has skyrocketed. Some its own coffee, and carefully curates of Tasha’s colleagues in the service a selection of beans from Central industry have had to move to cheaper America. He applied online, and moved neighborhoods. Artists have relocated to the City when he was offered the job. to Bayview, and elsewhere. According to Tasha, Front started Even with higher rents, creativ- as “Randy’s hobby.” Randy is the chief ity is still alive in the neighborhood. executive officer of Bot and Dolly, a Yvonne Mouser, a local furniture robotics company that owns the space designer, keeps her studio next to that Front occupies. He has a passion Google-owned Autofuss. Across the PHOTOGRAPH BY GABRIELLE LURIE for directly-sourced coffee. He emptied street, a building with mural-lined their business. a shake of the head, I understood that out the robotics supplies from one of walls is the home of a marijuana Outside the Deluxe skateboard fac- the answer was no; probably because the company’s garages and opened one grow house. Possibly the most strik- tory the sound of metal being cut can there was no shared language between of the Hill’s newest coffee shops. ing juxtaposition to the way the Hill often be heard. There’s a bucket full us. For them, this neighborhood means Front’s patrons tell the story of a is changing is Deluxe, a skateboard of used chewing tobacco and cigarette work and factories. The view from changing neighborhood. Tasha pointed manufacturer about 100 feet north of butts. Two men in their late 20s walked their cigarette break spot looks onto a out a young man sitting at a table Front. Tasha told me it took her a long out of the shop and acknowledged me Corovan warehouse and a scrap metal outside the cafe, sipping an espresso time to convince the skateboarders that with a nod. I asked if I could pose a few yard. Just out of sight, around the and slowly eating a croissant while Front was counterculture enough for questions. With a bewildered look and corner, is Front. 8 THE POTRERO VIEW November 2014 New Solutions Needed to Solve Homelessness Problem on the Hill

BY REBECCA SCHUETZ jump in the concentration of homeless- ness between 2011 and 2013. During In describing the complexities of that time, the area saw homelessness San Francisco’s homelessness problem, increase from 1,151 to 1,274. Bevan Dufty, director of Housing Op- People who work and live on Potrero portunity, Partnerships, and Engage- Hill are full of anecdotal evidence that ment (HOPE), told the story of one supports the data indicating increased man. He’d been living on the streets, visible homelessness in the neighbor- and through San Francisco’s homeless- hood. One employee of Bonham’s, a ness initiatives, for the past 15 years; British auction house located on San since the last millennium. Bruno Avenue, expressed concern that “He was actually in fairly good the visible homelessness correlated shape,” said Dufty, “and he shared with increasingly frequent and volatile with me that he has not been able to be crime. Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission prioritized for the San Francisco HOT, Bay, and South-of-Market residents or Homeless Outreach Team, because who attended a mid-October meeting he’s not sick, not mentally ill. And we on the issue gave accounts of walking recognize that this is a population that their children and dogs past people PHOTOGRAPH BY JENNIFER DURRANT may be here.” using hard drugs, defecating on street When it comes to homelessness on corners, and even charging at them. action a day or two later; they move to such a system could help the man Potrero Hill, Dufty said, “I recognize Those living close to Highway 101 are our side in the Mission. So that’s the whom Bevan mentioned, who has been that there is a lot of frustration. We’ve feeling increasingly threatened, and challenge; the displacement makes homeless for 15 years, but hasn’t seen received quite a number of complaints believe that their streets have been things more difficult for us.” Once one himself as eligible for many of the about a dramatic increase in the overtaken by transients. spot is cleared, people will move to City’s programs, though he is. Once number of people who are living on the Things could be worse. “The their next regular spot, often shuttling the organization has finalized a loca- street in the neighborhood.” homeless rate in San Francisco has back and forth between station areas. tion, it hopes to open the triage center Based on what he’d seen, the for- remained the same,” Dufty said. “L.A. “We’ve exhausted approximately within 30 days. mer San Francisco Board of Supervisor has increased by 15 percent. New York $425,000 just in San Francisco on Dufty described the center as a member said that while some individu- has also seen a 15 percent increase. homelessness…all we do, really, is facility that could jump-start the sort als may be using narcotics, the home- Even Santa Clara County has seen an move them out,” said Raul Herrera, a of long-term solutions that would lead less community includes a functional 8 percent increase of homeless. Our ef- California Department of Transporta- a way out of the “whack-a-mole game.” population. Because of this, he pointed forts have kept the number the same.” tion (CalTrans) maintenance manager. “You know what,” he said, “if these to the need for more out-of-the-box According to District 10 Supervi- “They’ll go away, take their belong- people are really eligible for Home- solutions, such as Homeward Bound. sor Malia Cohen, residents may have ings. And then when they leave and we ward Bound or Care Not Cash and HOT also aims to increase the number noticed what she called “the ebb and clean up the area, they just move right they’re able-bodied and might be able of nurses and nurse practitioners on flow” of homeless people in the area. back. So it’s a constant cycle.” to go to work or go to treatment, we the street who can start conversations “You’ll see that there’ll be camps one According to Andy Thornley, San have to go to our housing-first roots.” with homeless people concerned about day, they’ll dissipate, and then they’ll Francisco Municipal Transportation In the short-term, Cohen is work- their health. These interactions could come back.” She pointed to an unfor- Agency sustainable street manager, ing with CalTrans to pour concrete serve as gateways to connect people to tunate series of San Francisco Police “It is a whack-a-mole game.” over dirt and grass underneath 101 as resources, but come at the cost of scal- Department (SFPD) injuries that Dufty is optimistic that long-term a way to dissuade the homeless from ing back the outreach team’s original sidelined some officers as part of the solutions can be found. He cites the erecting tents. Cohen also wants to model of offering temporary housing cause. Captain Daniel Perea of Mission effectiveness of Homeward Bound, a change street parking near 101 to four- as that gateway. Station added that SFPD staffing is at program that returns homeless people hour limits all day and night to prevent Every other year, cities across the an all-time low. to their hometowns if they have family motor homes from being parked over- U.S. conduct a Homeless Point-In-Time However, even when at full force or friends there who will take them in. night. And, she said, improved lighting Count and Survey. Last January, San the most police can usually do is Homeward Bound has sent more than throughout the neighborhood will Francisco identified 6,436 unsheltered displace homeless people. Citations 8,500 people back to their place of eliminate the “home-like, cozy feel” and sheltered homeless individuals; are ineffective; the homeless popula- origin over the past seven years. Less underneath overpasses now. more than the total undergraduate tion is often unable to pay fines. A than 24 have returned to San Fran- But these are temporary solutions, enrollment at the University of San record of citations can become an im- cisco’s shelter system. Last August was not much more effective than street Francisco. Excluded from this number pediment when applying for housing, a record month for the program, with cleaning or intermittent displace- were 914 unaccompanied children. The extending homeless spells. Captain 90 people being sent back home. ments. The long-term plan is to give number of homeless adults remained Robert O’Sullivan, of Bayview Sta- HOPE is currently looking for a the homeless people a permanent place virtually static from the 2011 point- tion, stressed that officers attempt location near Division Street for a tri- to live. “People want their own door in-time count, with a decrease of just to respond to the issue with empathy age center, which would provide food, and own place,” says Dufty. “They 19 people. However, in 2013, 295 more by offering resource sheets to people places to sleep, showers, and bath- are being bullied and having things homeless people were unsheltered they’re moving. rooms. Once people come to the center, stolen in shelters. They need a better than two years before. They were Captain Perea pointed out that they’ll be connected with Homeward solution.” found sleeping outdoors, in makeshift when he clears an encampment, “Peo- Bound, Care Not Cash, CalFresh, and Nathan Allen contributed to this shelters, encampments, or vehicles. ple will go over to Vermont Street, and the food stamp program. Theoretically, article. District 10, which includes Dog- then, you know, the [police officers] patch and Potrero Hill, experienced a from Bayview are over there. They take

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It is working fine as twisted, tangled, lifeless.” Accord- it is for car or bicycle traffic,” he said. ing to O’Connor, the intersection is “Perhaps some minor improvements hostile to pedestrians, dark, with no could be made to make it more dif- vegetation, trashy, and full of home- ficult to access by the homeless, and less encampments. make it pedestrian friendly. Things “I avoid the area as much as pos- like ground treatment in open spaces sible,” he said. “It’s such a sad scene, PHOTOGRAPH BY JENNIFER DURRANT —large, sharp rocks—to make it diffi- with so much trash, graffiti, en- we need better signage and wayfare they want to get onto 101 North, they cult to walk on, sturdier fencing, and campments, etc. I spend many hours for pedestrians and bicycles.” have to take three rights to access sturdy vegetation that is hard to get calling about the area and having it Holly Kreuter, a Kansas Street the highway. “I really don’t like that through, or clear ground with good cleaned up.” ​ resident, said she likes that the some people make the illegal left in- lighting to ease enforcement. Maybe David Paschich, who lives on San intersection is better than a regular stead,” she said. “Traffic on Vermont night noises to make it impossible to Bruno Avenue, also avoids the area. stoplight corner —traffic moves well trying to turn right to either get on camp there.” “I think the hairball was clearly through it—but the area is old and the highway or just turn onto Cesar At the moment, hopes to improve designed to get cars through the dirty, the overpasses are crumbly, and Chavez has to watch out; those illegal the area are nothing more than interchange as quickly as possible, at the vegetation is overgrown. “I fear left turns are very dangerous there.” that. The California Department the cost of safety and access for pe- that a homeless person with their cart Tom Hundt, a 24th Street resi- of Transportation has no renova- destrians and bicycles. As a result, it will be hit someday on the part that dent, also dislikes the traffic pattern. tion plans, a spokesperson said. forms a barrier between the Mission, goes to Potrero Avenue after getting “The most annoying thing for me O’Connor is optimistic, though, and Potrero Hill, and Bayview neighbor- off 101 South at Cesar Chavez,” she has been the way I get from the Bay said Caltrans does the best it can hoods. It’s ugly and noisy,” he said. said. “I use it a lot; I think overall it Bridge back home,” he said. “Previ- with an impossible situation. “They Changes have been made to is pretty ingenious, just wish it were ously, I could take the Chavez/Army are limited in resources,” he said. improve access for pedestrians and cleaned up, [and] looked fresher,” Street exit and loop around onto “Whenever I reach out to them to bicycles in the last few years, but “re- she said. Chavez eastbound, and make the im- address an issue they respond quickly ally making this a gateway instead of Kreuter pointed out that if a mediate left onto Vermont, and enter and completely. Any solution must be a barrier will take a major rebuild- driver is on Cesar Chavez East coming my neighborhood. At some point—this interdepartmental, that is, involv- ing,” Paschich said. “At the very least, from Noe Valley or the Mission, and was years ago, now—they declared ing both City and state resources. It this illegal—it means crossing over should consider the wishes and needs all four lanes of Chavez – and so now of residents.” I have to make the U-turn at Chavez District 10 Supervisor Malia and Kansas. I wish this were easier Cohen’s office said they’re aware of to do. If I’m driving a vehicle with the issues with the intersection, and a lousy turning radius, I sometimes have been working to address them, have to go into the FBI’s parking lot but there’s no easy solution. Cohen is and turn around.” collaborating with the San Francisco Even for biking, Hundt doesn’t Municipal Transportation Agency like the hairball. “I really wish the and County Transportation Authority footbridge at 25th Street was not on fixes that could be implemented closed off, because then I could avoid in the near-term, such as bicycle and the depths of the hairball when going pedestrian enhancements. Cohen is to the outer Mission.” also hopeful that the Neighborhood If O’Connor had it his way the Transportation Improvement Pro- hairball would be completely reno- gram (NTIP) will approve $100,000 to vated. He’d like to see a tunnel for 101, address some of the concerns, though effectively putting it underground she acknowledged that $100,000 until the split-off to Ninth Avenue- won’t go far. NTIP is still collecting Civic Center. A park could be created proposals; grant money awards are a above it, with walkways, bike paths, few months away.

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SOUTHSIDE from Front Page estimated that between $247 million and More People Own Cars on the Hill now follows the path of Long Bridge, $395 million of infrastructure enhance- 80% which was demolished in the 1890s. ments would be necessary to support As Mission Bay began to be filled in future population increases in the area. 60% with refuse from the Southern Pacific cerned that Potrero Hill will soon be Roughly one-third of the need is to be Railroad and other sources, a community 40% awash with one-bedroom units and paid for by developer impact fees, with known as Dumpville formed along its di- temporary residents. “Family-friendly the rest financed through other sources. 20% minishing shores. Police burned Dump- housing is not the sort of housing you During the plan development, com- ville’s shanties and evicted its residents move out of after a few years once you’ve munity advocates called for a chunk of 0% in 1895. Debris from the earthquake and outgrown it” said Eppler. “It’s a place you the incremental property taxes generated Potrero Hill/ SF Total fire of 1906 completed the filling in of Cent Waterfront can live in as long as you can afford to by growth to stay in Southside neighbor- Mission Bay. and want to. The developers have paid hoods to pay for needed infrastructure, Between the 1880s and 1920 in- lip service to our concerns; they will instead of going to the General Fund. In Planning Department underestimated dustries along Potrero Hill’s shoreline increase the number of three-bedroom 2008 then Mayor Gavin Newsom, in the future property tax revenues that will boomed (see map opposite page 20). units by two or three units per project. face of a municipal deficit, rejected this be generated from growth. The depart- Union Iron Works—sold to Bethlehem It’s just a box that they can check. They idea. The Board of Supervisors approved ment expects an additional $8 million Steel in 1905—was the most up-to-date can go to the Planning Department and the Plan without any guarantee that the annually; $120 million over 15 years. iron works and shipbuilding plant of its say that the neighborhood asked for us to infrastructure to support it would be In contrast, Kelly calculated future day. The brick smokestack of the New increase the number of family-friendly funded. property tax revenue of $44.6 million California Sugar Refinery at Islais Creek units, and look, we did.” “This is how promises get broken; annually, a difference of more than $500 was San Francisco’s tallest structure. The flood of new development, and you remove the mandate that guarantees Other industries included Pacific Roll- increased population density accom- that the promise will be kept, and you SOUTHSIDE page 22 ing Mills, Risdon Iron Works, Arctic Oil panying it, has led to concerns that the hope people forget,” said District 10 Works, and the San Francisco Gas Light transportation infrastructure improve- Supervisor candidate Tony Kelly. Ac- Company. ments and other public amenities needed cording to Kelly, the City should place MAPS from Front Page Immigrants from many countries to support the deluge of new residents a moratorium on new construction until filled rooming houses near these in- aren’t being delivered. A needs assess- dedicated financing is secured for needed dustries, forming mini-neighborhoods: ment conducted as part of Plan creation infrastructure. He believes that the gunpowder manufacturers established Dutchman’s Flat—now Dogpatch — themselves at Point Saint Quentin, later Scotch Hill, Russian Hill, and Irish Hill. known as Potrero Point. In 1856, Alfred (See accompanying story.) Industries New Development Not Kid-Friendly and Hiram Tubbs built a rope factory need room to expand. When Irish Hill nearby. Property values also exploded; was torn down around 1917, it was a sign 40% 36% that same year speculators even offered that business growth had precedence underwater lots for sale. over residential space. Potrero wasn’t easily accessible to The population shifted to the slopes 22% the expanding City. It wasn’t until the west of the industrial shore. In 1924, St. completion of Long Bridge in 1867—built Teresa’s Church also moved, following in anticipation of the transcontinental its congregation, from Tennessee and railroad—that development of industry 19th streets to Connecticut and 19th. The 2% along the waterfront took off. (See 1878 1927 map (reproduced on the cover of view opposite page 16.) Third Street— Studio 1 Bedroom 2 Bedrooms 3 Bedrooms Plus formerly known as Kentucky Street— MAPS page 22

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MAP DRAWN BY BRIAN STOKLE 16th Street Likely to be a Center of Growth BY FLETCHER FOTI feasibility around Potrero Hill. sent parcels that are easily profitable. Francisco medical center, with plans The map above shows 273 parcels Moderate red shows plots which might for offices and the creation of Mariposa According to a recent The Atlantic along 16th and Third streets and tests be profitable or are likely to be in the Park. Another 1,000 to 1,500 units could Cities post, in the past few years the them for redevelopment potential. The near future. Pink identifies land which potentially be built south of 23rd Street 94107 zip code has emerged as the center methodology used is simple, but suf- is sufficiently developed that demolition on Third Street on land that’s currently of venture capital (VC) investment in the ficient to identify lots that are ripe for is unlikely. Community land is separate- utilized as light industrial. Bay Area. A little less than $2 billion in renovation. Under the approach, the ly considered — government buildings, Interestingly, although develop- capital has been invested in companies costs of purchasing the land and any churches, schools, and parks — as these ment below 23rd Street and above active in the area. The adjoining 94105 buildings, as well as the expense of con- fall outside of the purview of simple cash 25th Street is likely, sale prices zip code is second on the VC list, at- structing a new edifice, flow accounting. quickly decrease while going further tracting another $700 million. Mountain are balanced against The underlying south on Third. New development View, home to Google, is third, with $660 the revenues that could data is from the San south of 25th is only considered some- million. In fact, all 10 of the nation’s top be garnered from the In the past few Francisco Office of what likely. Although there’s quite a VC zip codes are located either within new structure. A new “years the 94107 zip Assessor-Recorder. bit of vacant land on the two corridors walking distance of Potrero Hill, or a building is considered code has emerged as These data are from which is likely to be developed, poten- Caltrain ride away. This investment feasible if the sum of early 2013 — the latest tial for redevelopment — demolishing trend began in earnest around 2012. the cash flows is net the center of venture available on datasf.org buildings and rebuilding at a higher Since then, household incomes in Dog- positive. capital investment in website —thus some of density — is moderate. patch and Potrero Hill have increased In most cases, the the parcels have al- Further south along the T line, significantly, with home prices rising number to pay atten- the Bay Area. ready been developed redevelopment plans abound, with along with them. tion to is the amount or are in the process. ongoing demolition and redevelopment According to college-level econom- of floor area that’s al- ” For instance, 2235 of land in and around Candlestick Park ics, as high-income wage earners flood lowed by zoning, compared to the size Third Street is predicted for develop- and at Hunters Point Shipyard. In these a market, demand for quality housing of any current buildings on the land. ment which has already been completed. locales, developers are betting that increases. Unless supply expands As rents rise and for parcels with taller In aggregate, roughly 7,000 residen- they can build enough infrastructure prices rise. When prices hit a certain height limits, it becomes easier to jus- tial units are feasible for development on and “urban fabric” to create demand threshold, developers begin to make a tify the cost of acquiring and perhaps just these parcels. About 5,000 of those for locations that, on the face of it, are sufficient profit to buy older buildings demolishing existing property. Vacant units are contained on dark red plots; remote. Much safer bets occur near and renovate or tear them down to build plots, parking lots, and underdeveloped the rest are moderate red. Note that 16th Street and in Dogpatch, where new housing. In principle, such develop- industrial land all become targets for almost 3,000 of the new housing could this analysis shows that market condi- ment activity will stabilize the housing multi-story residential development, have been accommodated on the mas- tions already support development. market at a price that’s affordable to a which presently fetches the highest sive spread of vacant land south of 16th There’s quite a bit of land between household at “the prevailing wage rate.” prices. This also explains why develop- and west of Third, near the intersection Dogpatch and Hunters Point for Based on that basic economic approach, ers typically try to “max out” a parcel of the two streets. However, construc- which current conditions don’t seem this article, and the accompanying map, with sellable space. tion is already underway at this site for to support redevelopment, though San describes an analysis of redevelopment In the map dark red shapes repre- the new University of California, San Francisco markets can change quickly. 22 THE POTRERO VIEW November 2014

SOUTHSIDE from page 16 with hilly terrain, non-metered parking The Hill’s car population increased by 37 is a mix of vacant land and deteriorating and easy access to freeways, encour- percent during the oughts, a trend that’s buildings walled off by barbed wire ages Hill residents to drive. Community unlikely to slowdown amidst a building fences. If approved, the historic 65-acre million over 15 years. “That’s a half a members rely more on their cars and less boom that will add 2,000 parking spaces plot will be developed into a mixed-use billion dollar windfall; how about we on public transit than the rest of the City. over the next few years. center, with three million square feet of split it with the City.” Kelly said. According to the Planning Department’s In response to the major land-use offices, restaurants, shops and residen- Poor public transit access, paired 2012 Socio-Economic Profiles report, the changes in the Southside neighborhoods, tial space. In total, the project could add per capita number of cars on the Hill is a multiple agency partnership led by the as many as 10,000 jobs and 2,000 resi- And Fewer Rely on Public Transit 61 percent, compared to 47 percent for San Francisco Municipal Transportation dential units to the Central Waterfront’s 40% the entire City. The percentage of people Agency (SFMTA), created the Eastern current population of roughly 850 people. 30% who use public transit to get to work is Neighborhoods Transportation Planning With these vast increases, a whole new 23 percent on the Hill, versus 33 percent Study (EN TRIPS). According to SFM- neighborhood will emerge. 20% for the City as a whole. TA’s website, the 2011 report “addresses 10% A 2012 analysis by the View revealed impacts of growth and change in the that although San Francisco’s car popu- Eastern Neighborhoods by identifying, MAPS from page 16 0% lation remained stagnant through most designing and seeking funding for key Potrero Hill/Cent SF Total of the beginning of this century, the City’s transportation infrastructure projects.” Waterfront vehicle population has shifted Southside. The report estimates that daily trips this special issue) shows, among other by all modes to and from the eastern things, the Southern Pacific freight neighborhoods could double in the next slip, which can be seen today near the 20 years. One project proposed in the Bay View Boat Club. Mission Rock, report is to optimize the flow of public once a navigational guide for ships, transit on the 16th Street corridor, a vital was engulfed with the expansion of segment of road connecting Southside to Pier 50 in 1946. the rest of the City. Until the early 1970s, Potrero Hill Future increases in population and was a working-class neighborhood, employment in the area are certain. with a number of public housing What’s uncertain, however, is when EN developments. The Hill, isolated from TRIPS-identified transit enhancements the rest of the City by its industrial will be implemented. “All the promises zones and the freeways, was rarely of increased transit in the Eastern Neigh- included in guidebooks or shown on borhoods Plan have no real manifestation maps designed as souvenirs. today” said Eppler. “The current status The construction of Victoria of EN TRIPS is it’s a PDF on a website”. Mews on 20th Street in 1978 began If voters approve the next step in Pier the process of gentrification that 70s massive redevelopment this month, continues today. The Hill’s long-time the need for transportation improve- residents will remember many busi- ments on the 16th Street corridor will nesses identified in the 1988 map on become more pressing, as the Central the centerspread between pages 16 Waterfront emerges as a notable com- and 20, but will also be surprised at mercial and housing node. Today, the site how many have become history.

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The Realtor on the Hill, For People on the Hill PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS —and our Potrero Office’s #1 Top Producer Digital Drop In: Questions on how to download eBooks to your device, or how for the 2nd year in a row! to use the library’s databases? Have a reference query that requires time to answer? Meet with a librarian to help answer your basic technology conun- drums! Wednesdays, November 5, 12, and 19, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wes Freas Starring San Francisco – Films set in San Francisco: Join film historian Jim REALTOR®, Top Producer, Van Buskirk as he shows movie stills and clips demonstrating the Bay Area’s Potrero Hill Resident rich cinematic history. Among the many familiar scenes will be the Alta Plaza Park steps being chipped in What’s Up, Doc?, the futuristic skyline in 415.426.3225 tel/fax Towering Inferno and Bicentennial Man, and the geographically inconsistent 415.518.6538 cell chase sequence in Bullitt. Thursday, November 6, 6 to 7:30 p.m. [email protected] Building Social Courage – Handling Difficult Conversations: This workshop is for anyone who wants to be more confident when interacting with someone who might be angry, and for those who have a tendency to withdraw or back away when confronted with difficult situations. Sunday, November 9, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

PROGRAMS FOR TEENS Game On!: Come play PS3 and Wii games on our big screen in the Potrero meeting room! Ages eight to 18 welcome. Thursdays, November 4, 18, and 25, 4 to 6 p.m.

In “Short Circuit”—Imaginuity Science Programming: An endearing little robot known only as “Number 5” escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Newton (Steve Guttenberg) sets out to locate him. Number 5 takes refuge with Stephanie (Ally Sheedy), who is convinced he is an ex- traterrestrial. Hoping to teach the “alien” all about Earth, she fills Number 5’s memory banks with reams of pop culture; and then the real fun begins. 1986, Rated PG

PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN Baby Rhyme and Play Time: Songs and rhymes for infants up to 18 months old and their caregivers. Tuesdays, November 4, 18, and 25, 1:15 to 1:45 p.m.

Family Story time: Featuring stories, songs and rhymes. For children from birth to five years old and their caregivers. Thursdays November 6, 13, and 20, 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Saturday Snacktivity: With food provided by the Potrero Whole Foods, we’ll offer a wholesome snack followed by a fun activity. All ages welcome. Saturdays, November 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Make Art Workshop: Join us to explore the intersection of art, craft and science. You’ll learn to make several delightful, simple toys with every day materials. For children five and older and their caregivers. Saturday, November 8, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Fun Flicks: Bring a snack and enjoy children’s films. This month’s films are Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Knuffle Bunny, Inch by Inch, Swimmy, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and Seven Blind Mice. For ages three to eight. Wednesday November 12, 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.

Scribblebots – Imaginuity science programming: Join Exploratorium teen staff for Scribble Bots!, a drop-in workshop where you’ll complete an electrical circuit and build a simple contraption that skitters around while it scribbles. Saturday November 15, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Movie and Meal Day: We will present Sleeping Beauty and the Potrero Hill Family Support Center will provide a meal. Friday, November 21, 3 to 5:30 p.m.

LIBRARY SPONSORED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS 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. color

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November 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 5 Good Night Tips for Parents to Get SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR THE BOOK PRESENTS Through Daylight Savings BY BECKY ROOSEVELT 5:45 a.m. the next two days, and finally, on the fifth day, enter the room at 6 a.m.. November 2 marks the end of day- This gradual approach provides a reset light-savings time and the potential for a baby’s tummy. start of a period of bad sleep patterns Avoid the temptation to allow your for children. While darker evenings can child to stay up past their normal bed- help set the mood for a snooze, losing an time the first few days after the time hour can disrupt the sleep patterns of change. You may feel like it’s too early to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, caus- put them to bed, but delaying dreamtime ing mayhem in the household. There are can make the situation worse as it can ways to make the transition go smoothly cause children to build up a sleep deficit. for the whole family, though. Early bedtimes help prevent a child from Make sure your child’s bedroom is becoming overtired, which can trigger sleep-cozy. In light-littered urban en- trouble falling asleep, waking during vironments, blackout shades — garbage the night, and waking up too early in bags, in a pinch — can stop illumination the morning. Sticking to the established from street lights, headlamps, and early bedtime is the best way to ensure your morning sun from entering the room. child is getting enough sleep. Use a humidifier, air purifier, fan, or Get the family outside as much as white noise app to block out household possible after the clock change. Light and neighborhood noise. If your child exposure helps adjust our internal uses a nightlight, keep it out of their clocks. Fresh air and outdoor activities direct line of sight. Temperature can are good for the soul. also impact sleep; make sure the room Though these tips can help get ev- isn’t too cold or too hot: 68 to 72 degrees eryone in the family to sleep easier, don’t is perfect for great sleep. stress about the time change. Children For early-rising youngsters, the are resilient. The first few days after time change can be brutal to parents daylight savings ends may be a bit off. AN ANNUAL ARTS & CRAFTS EVENT because children will want to wake up But as long as you keep to your routines, FEATURING OVER 30 ARTS & CRAFTS VENDORS even earlier. Keep infants in their crib and schedule your day to the new time, until at least 6 a.m. the first morning of things will fall into place. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014 | 11 AM - 6 PM the time change. That may mean leaving Becky Roosevelt is a Family Sleep 375 RHODE ISLAND STREET | SFCB.ORG | them there for a while to fuss, babble, or Institute certified child sleep consultant, hangout on their own before you enter serves as their operations manager, and their room to start the day. If you’re is founder of Snug as a Bug Pediatric worried that your baby is hungry, for the Sleep Consulting, snugasabugsleep. first two days after the time change go in com. Roosevelt helps parents get their no earlier than 5:30 a.m. to start the day, children the sleep they need.

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November 6 through 9 Community: SF Urban Film Festival Join four days of flm and flm- COMMUNITY CALENDAR maker/urban planner panels, with a Friday night party that celebrates our hopes and Speaker Series: Wendy gies for supporting your child in dreams for dynamic cities, in- Maruyama: Executive the transition to a new sibling, cluding San Francisco. A city’s 12 Order 9066 and laying the foundation for design infuences its residents’ Join the Museum of Craft and a lifetime of positive relation- daily experiences, economic Design, in partnership with the ships. We’ll also discuss self-care health, and sense of community. National Japanese American strategies to support parents in The flms featured on Saturday Historical Society, for a panel this transition to a bigger family, portray urban planning as a de- discussion with Japanese-Amer- and activities—other than Elmo! sign problem, and include the icans who were sent to intern- —to keep older siblings en- mesmerizing Urbanized, the ment camps during World War gaged while you nurse, swaddle inspiring Rock the Boat, and a II, who will share their stories or maybe even take a shower! fascinating segment from the lo- about what the camps was like Cost: $38 individual/$48 couple. cally produced work-in-progress for young people. Includes Flor- 7:30 to 9 p.m. Recess, 470 Caro- Saving the City. The day ends ence Dobashi, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, lina Street. Information: recess- with a panel discussion on the and Ron Yoshida. Moderated by sf.com. RSVP: tinyurl.com/re- evolution of San Francisco’s in- Rosalyn Tonai of NJAHS. 7 to cessworkshops town new town, Mission Bay, a 8:30 p.m. Museum of Craft and neighborhood designed from Design, 2569 Third Street. Infor- Music: Volti Concert— scratch. Panel member Ron Historical Maps of Potrero Hill, November 8. mation: sfmcd.org/programs/ Want Me, Songs of Blatman, producer and director 21 adults/ Longing and Desire of Saving the City, will discuss Volti, San Francisco’s award-win- how he chose Mission Bay as Lecture: ning new music chamber choir, the focus of the San Francisco Outdoors: Birding Tour embarks upon its 36th Season segment in this upcoming Pub- 8 at Heron’s Head Park 14 Cutting Teeth Julia Fierro is the au- with two world premieres and lic Broadcasting Station televi- Experience the thrill thor of , which was other contemporary works ex- sion series. $15. See website for of observing and learning about Cutting Teeth included in the ’s ploring our longings for every- times. Spur, 650 Mission Street. the waterfowl, shorebirds and Library Journal Spring Best Debuts and on the thing from beautiful things to Information: sfurbanflmfest.com wading birds that call the park home during the winter. Bring Most Anticipated Books of 2014 love and respect to fnding faith lists by HuffPost Books, in a higher power. $10 to $25. November 6 through 30 binoculars and a pencil; all par- Fla- , , and the St. Gregory of Nyssa Church, Art/Science: Comet Lands ticipants receive a checklist of vorwire Marie Claire . Fierro’s work has been 500 De Haro Street. Information: in San Francisco at the birds at the park. Free. Family Millions published or is forthcoming in voltiSF.org Exploratorium and adult walks available. 10 a.m. Poets & Writers, Guernica, Glam- Metamorphosis, a dynamic to noon. Heron’s Head, Jennings , , and oth- Fair: San Francisco nine-foot-high by 12-foot-long Street and Cargo Way. Informa- our Psychology Today er publications, and she’s been Center for the Book steel sculpture, debuts at the tion: sfnature.org 22 profled in and Holiday Fair Exploratorium. The piece is The Observer The In 2002, she founded Peruse the wide selection of a scaled model of the 67P/ Community: Economist. The Sackett Street Writers’ unique holiday gifts: letterpress Churyumov-Gerasimenko 8 Connecticut Garden Workshop in Brooklyn, which cards, prints and ephemera, comet, destination of the de- Pop-up Market has grown into a creative home journals and notebooks, art- cade-long Rosetta Spacecraft Head over to the Connecticut for more than 2,500 writers, and ists’ books, paper and ink, and Mission. Designed by David Friendship Garden Pop-Up at was chosen as a top alternative unique arts and crafts hand- Delgado and Dan Goods of the Rickshaw Bagworks. There’ll be to master of fne arts programs made by a variety of printers, National Aeronautics and Space local honey, beautiful bouquets by , , bookbinders, book artists, artists Administration’s Jet Propulsion and specialty succulents available Poets & Writers L Magazine and . Free. and craftspeople. Join the fair Lab and architect Jason Klimos- in exchange for your donation. Brooklyn Magazine 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. California Col- for a full of holiday cheer, mu- ki, of Brooklyn-based StudioK- The non-proft is working to reno- lege of the Arts, 195 De Haro sic, merriment and more. Free. CA, the sculpture celebrates the vate the Connecticut Friendship at 15th Street. Information: cca. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. San Francisco Rosetta Mission. Metamorphosis Garden to create a community edu/calendar. Center for the Book, 375 Rhode is lit from the inside, replicating garden with an outdoor class- Island Street. Information: the glow and atmosphere of a room that is accessible for people November 14 through 17 sfcb.org comet, letting off vapor to mim- of all ages and abilities. Free. Film: ic the solid-to-gas process of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rickshaw Bag- The French Had a Food: Canning sublimation that comets experi- works, 904 22nd Street. Informa- Name for it Everyone knows that the French Intensive—Homemade ence. Its presence at the Explor- tion: [email protected] 30 —specifcally journalist Nino Holiday Sweet Treats atorium will coincide with the Frank—coined the term . Get ready for the season and landing of the European Space Exhibit: Maps of flm noir This festival features familiar add to your larder, impress your Agency’s fagship Rosetta Mis- Potrero Hill History 8 international stars—Jean Gabin, folks and make hearts grow sion, the most detailed study Reception Brigitte Bardot, Simone Signo- three sizes larger! Learn to of a comet ever attempted. The Review the history of the Hill ret, Lino Ventura—but places preserve homemade gifts and Rosetta spacecraft arrived at from the early days to the pres- them in the context of lurid mé- spread some holiday cheer with the comet on August 6, after ent in an exhibit created by the nages and murderous deceits Shakirah Simley. In this dem- a 10-year journey through the Potrero Hill Archives Project, in that have a uniquely French onstration and hands-on class, solar system. Since then, the collaboration with the View. twist. See website for times and students will tackle the follow- spacecraft has moved to within Farley’s, 1315 – 18th Street. ticket prices. The Roxie Theater, ing special, seasonal and truly 30 kilometers of the comet, 3117 16th Street. Information: stunning treats: Brandied Seckel taking close-up images and de- Fundraiser: roxie.com. Pears; Walnuts Preserved in tailed scientifc measurements 12 The Potrero Gateway Local Honey; Vanilla-Bourbon of the landing sites. Philae, Loop at the “Rock” Family: Introducing a Caramel Sauce; Rangpur Lime the lander spacecraft, it set to Learn about Loop projects and New Sibling Workshop Marmalade. Participants will take touchdown on the comet on the history of the area, hosted at 18 Just when you’ve got- home recipe packets, jars of the November 12. The following day, a historic residence nicknamed ten used to a little more sleep, a made-in-class concoctions and Exploratorium Senior Scientist the “Rock.” Peter Linenthal will bit of a routine and learned your a boost of holiday canning con- Paul Doherty will host a live present images and stories from grove as a young family…here fdence. $65-75. 4 to 8 p.m. 18 webcast with mission updates. 1948 to 1953, when the 101 free- comes a new sibling! While wel- Reasons, 3674 18th Street. Infor- Exploratorium, Pier 15. Informa- way was built and houses in its coming a new baby to your fam- mation: 18reasons.org tion: exploratorium.edu. path were moved or demolished. Food by Lolinda restaurant. Tick- ily is exciting, it also raises im- ets: $30, $50, $100. 6:30 to 8:30 portant questions and concerns. p.m. The Rock, 2255 Mariposa Join Rebecca Walsh, director Street. Information: potrerogate- of early childhood matters and waypark.org. mother of two, to learn strate-

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IRISH HILL from page 6 cides, and one attempted suicide; ten assaults, five with a deadly weapon; eighteen burglaries; and two minor night, pitting men from different and one major fire. hotels against each other. The losers Not all of Irish Hill’s residents bought the winners five-cent steam were single men. According to the beers at Boyles’ popular saloon. 1900 United States Census report, 35 Life was hard. Twelve-hour percent of those 18 years of age and workdays at dangerous jobs, the older were women. One-third were loneliness of being separated from children, 10 percent of whom had jobs. faraway loved ones — left behind as Seventy percent were first-generation the Irish Hill workers tried to make immigrants; 30 percent second genera- their fortunes — and abject poverty tion. Though 55 percent were of Irish Bayview Police Station Captain’s Community Meeting is held on the first made liquor a popular salve. In 1889, descent — thus the neighborhood’s Tuesday of each month at the Bayview Station, 201 Williams Avenue. Irish Hill’s seven square blocks name — Scotch, Germans, Italians, Next meeting: November 4th, 6 p.m. housed 38 businesses. Alcohol was Swedish, Dutch, and Norwegians, as available at 25 of them, in either well as one Australian, called Irish Dogpatch Neighborhood Association usually meets the second Tuesday of saloons or ‘sealed package houses.’ Hill home. each odd-numbered month. Next meeting: November 11th. Voting mem- Liquor caused more problems The most well-known Irish Hill bership is open to anyone living in or owning property or a business in than it solved. Crime-plagued Irish resident was Frank McManus, known Dogpatch. For more information or to join/pay online: mydogpatch.org Hill. Stories of alcohol-fueled may- citywide as the ‘King of the Potrero.’ hem were reported regularly in the Escaping the Irish potato famine, Friends of Franklin Square Join the Friends of Franklin Square to help newspapers. Barroom brawls were McManus and his younger brothers improve our local park! We need your ideas and input to update the master commonplace, but stranger events set off for San Francisco in 1865. He plan and to help seek grant money to improve the park. Concerned about took place too. One man ‘went in- made his fortune selling mining stocks park safety and cleanliness? Want the soccer field to be re-carpeted? sane’ — got very drunk — and after a and, according to rumors, won the Interested in getting a dog-friendly area built? Now is your chance to three-day bender had to be pulled, Union Hotel in a card game. Wielding make it happen! Meet your neighbors and share ideas. Free snacks and naked and incoherent, out of the great power on Irish Hill, both politi- drinks provided. We will also have a mini trivia contest with prizes from shallow mudflats, where he’d tried cally and economically, he became an our neighborhood businesses! For more information contact: friendsof- unsuccessfully to drown himself. An- outspoken member of the County [email protected]. other blacked out while sitting in an Republican Committee and influenced outhouse and fell 14 feet to his death. many elections. An applicant for a job McKinley Square Community Group is a communication and discussion One poor soul died after a night at Union Iron Works would have to go group regarding events and activities, clean-up days, improvement and of drinking and cards at a friend’s through Frank McManus, stay at his beautification, and other concerns, such as crime in the neighborhood. place, after he mistook the back door Union Hotel, and drink at his saloon. MSCA board meets approximately quarterly on the second Wednesday of for the front door and fell off a cliff, Those who didn’t suffered brutal the month. Look to the online discussion group for postings of upcoming landing on Illinois Street, 50 feet beatings by McManus and his thugs. meetings. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/McKinleySquareCommunity. below. A son got into a fistfight with In 1885, McManus’ housing and Locations vary between the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House and his father, knocked the elder’s glass boozing monopoly was challenged Downtown High School. For updates, including sustainable gardening eye out, and stepped on it, smashing by brothers Thomas and John Welsh, and park workdays, and our grant progress, check out the MSCA blog it to bits. who brazenly opened two hotels with at: http://mckinleysquareblog.blogspot.com. Newspaper articles from 1887 to 1892 reported six accidental deaths, Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association meets the last Tuesday of two of them job-related; three sui- IRISH HILL page 32 each month at 7 p.m. (social time begins at 6:45 p.m.) in the wheelchair- accessible Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more information: potreroboosters.org or email president@potreroboost- CLASSIFIED ADS ers.org. Next meeting: November 25th, 7 p.m. Potrero Dogpatch Merchant’s Association meets the second Tuesday of ARCHITECTURAL COLOR CON- each month at 10 a.m. at Goat Hill Pizza, corner of Connecticut and Design SULTANT KATHYJEAN BOISE Need 18th streets. Visit www.potrerohill.biz or call 341.8949. Next meeting: help choosing the perfect colors & LOOKING FOR FREELANCE DE- design for your home or business? November 11th, 10 a.m. SIGNER. The View needs some occa- Kathyjean Boise is the best color con- sional design and production assistance. sultant in the Bay Area! Let 180 De- Contact: [email protected]. gree Color & Design create your vision. Potrero Hill Democratic Club meets the first Tuesday of each month at 415-285-3014-www.180color.com 7 p.m. at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. Health, Healing & Beauty HANDYMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE! For more information: 648.6740, www.PHDemClub.org. Next meeting: 20+ years experience Repair Remodel- November 4th, 7 p.m. DRAGONFIRE SPIRITUAL COACH- ing Elec Plumbing Drains Light Fix. ING—A TRANSFORMATIVE AP- DOORS! Windows Cabinets Decks PROACH. DragonFire Spiritual Coach- Staircases Built. $45-55/hr mike@triv- Potrero Hill Garden Club usually meets the last Sunday of the month at 11 ing—A Transformative Approach. elocarpentry.com Mike(415)308-2380 Together let’s Clarify : Enliven : Em- a.m. for a potluck lunch in a local home or garden. Discussions are held brace your life purpose & Ignite your on organic, edible, or ornamental gardening appropriate for Potrero Hill’s destiny. 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Personal IT con- day: November 1st. sulting to small businesses or busy pro- TOM’S PLUMBING Tom’s been satisfy- fessionals. We can install and/or help ing Potrero Hill customers for 35 years. shop for computer/network/printer or SOMA Rotary Club meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month All plumbing needs handled promptly setup/troubleshoot wireless networks. If and efficiently at very low cost. Keep it you’re not technical, don’t worry, we are. at Mission Rock Resort, 817 Terry Francois Blvd. We meet at 6:00 for a local and call Tom Keats! 415-824-3538 Rob 415.244.3305 [email protected]. mixer and 7:00 for a dinner meeting. We provide community service to the Mission Bay, Potrero, and Bayview communities. The focus is on HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD: providing services for the under-served of our community. The website is located at: http://www.meetup.com/Mission-Bay-Rotary-Club. 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On October 17, 2014, Rick Alber describing the good and bad points PUBLISHER’S VIEW from Front Page died peacefully surrounded by his of a new software service, website, family after unexpected complications conference, book, or other tech-related resulting from a scheduled surgical item. Playing Dr. WEB enables me to in full retreat, an extra ten pounds, procedure. keep up with the latest developments in and wisecracks mostly replaced by Alber lived on Potrero Hill from online services and design. I also enjoy eyes-wide-open wisdom. 1984 to 1993, and returned in 2011. Over first-hand experience in the techniques But we experience the sensa- the years he adopted various monikers, of marketing software to the media and tion of a changing place differently including “Dr. Web”, “Dr. ROM” and consumers. than the inevitable transformation “Dr. Science”. For the past couple of From 1997 to 1999 Alber managed of people. We marvel at how tall a years Alber contributed movie reviews all on-line activities of Senator Barbara friend’s child has become, or how to the View. Boxer’s reelection campaign. During stooped a parent, but we’re not Alber was born April 16, 1952 in his career he served as president of K/A surprised. Yet our sense of belonging Burbank, California to Jack and Terry Group, director of product marketing/ can be fundamentally threatened by Alber. On his website, drscience.com/ business development of Local2Me. the closure of a favorite bar, replaced rick/resume, Alber described a profes- Com, senior director of product de- by a restaurant we can’t afford to go sional career that started tradition- Rick Alber velopment at Build Point, and worked to, or the bulldozing of an old bus ally before it took a turn towards the at SportsTrac, Slate Corporation Soft depot, soon to become apartments creative: 1952 - 2014 Peddle and Borland. for strangers. Many of us feel a At the University of Southern According to his wife, actress stronger claim on ownership and California I majored in business ad- Maureen McVerry, Alber could often be desire for control over our communi- ministration with an emphasis on seen on the Hill’s North Slope walking ties than we do over our own bod- computer technology. Despite being in and Niesar, Moody, Hill and Massey. the family’s three cute puppies. “He ies. Neighborhood characters and a fraternity — Delta Tau Delta — I made The latter firm was a spinoff from rigged a way that all three dogs shared characteristics serve as our personal the Dean’s List in six semesters. I’m a Morrison and Foerster. Both firms the same leash and ran in front of him Rosebud, from Citizen Kane. third-generation Trojan and maintain mixed corporate, securities, real estate, tied together so that the “smart” one We don’t want some things to close connections with several of my and tax work with litigation. I liked stopped his wife and daughter from change. Yet they do. And, right now, classmates. many aspects of the practice of law, running into the street. He was roundly Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Show- I enjoyed the intellectual challenge but preferred the entrepreneurial criticized on Texas Street for yelling at place Square are in the midst of their of Stanford Law School and was active excitement of many of my clients. I the dogs at all hours. One neighbor came fastest transformation since the in the school’s Moot Court and Film developed several Silicon Valley-based over and asked Rick to not yell. They rapid rise of the Pier 70 shipyards Society. I chose elective courses in computer clients and started my own hated the sound of Rick’s voice more more than a half-century ago. Gen- technology or tax, such as Computers practice specializing in the legal needs than the yapping of the dogs!” trification doesn’t fully capture the and the Law and Advanced Business of technical startups in Silicon Valley. Alber’s was a life fully lived. “We economic and demographic shifts Taxation. During law school I clerked Beginning in 1994, Alber reviewed have your usual assortment of pets to that are remolding the community’s for two firms, DeMarco in Los Angeles software on the radio, first for KSFO keep our kids amused. I enjoy theatre, character. The area’s fundamental and Landels, Ripley and Diamond in and later for KGO. He was part of “The making films, tennis, basketball, and sense of identity is being made San Francisco. In my third year I en- Tech Guy” show hosted by Leo Laporte, nearly any kind of skiing,” he posted. over. The physical environmental joyed a convincing win in the Stanford syndicated nationwide in more than 100 His amateur video projects can be is being dramatically remolded in Law School pinball tournament. markets: viewed at vimeo.com/rickalber. a way that will last at least another After graduating from law school, I On the air I am Dr. WEB, an Alber is survived by McVerry, hundred years — an earthquake and practiced law for two San Francisco law experienced but skeptical computer daughter Flannery, 23, son Jack, 18, and firms: Feldman, Waldman and Kline, enthusiast. I spend about 10 minutes brother, Jon. PUBLISHER’S VIEW page 32

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PUBLISHER’S VIEW from page 30 outcomes. While an imperfect anal- IRISH HILL from page 29 off as a ‘ship carpenter,’ in the ogy, from this perspective the City is mid-1870s, opened his own grocery akin to a national park, where room and liquor store, and eventually climate change-induced sea level is made for tent campers, economy ground-floor saloons on Irish Hill, purchased several large corner lots. rise not withstanding. The natural lodgers, and those who can afford to one of them directly behind McManus’ He was the proprietor of the Nevada demographic change caused by stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel, with a Union Hotel. To add insult to injury, House — which can be seen in the births, deaths, and family outflows master plan that carefully maps out the Welshes were staunch Democrats. panorama photograph — at the corner prompted by a wobbly school district a sustainable commons and organic Their affront to ‘His Royal High- of 20th and Illinois streets from 1905 is being hurried along by rocketing businesses within the context of an ness’ — as he was referred to in the until 1910. cost-of-living increases, an influx of environment that’s dominated by press — ignited a bitter, violent rivalry The death knells began pealing a new population of mostly singles, beauty and unbuilt spaces: parks, that was known across San Francisco, for Irish Hill as early as 1897, when and the rise of a health care and green areas, watersheds, vistas. and eventually dubbed ‘The Blue Mud Union Iron Works acquired a 200 feet technology cluster that rivals the Nostalgia is a powerful force. Wars,’ named for the condition of Irish by 200 feet parcel of the hill just south City of Boston. It can skip over the memory of a Hill Streets after a rain, where their of their foundry and began grading The City’s existing web of plan- dangerous Dogpatch, populated by street fights raged. it to expand their operations. The ning channels — zoning, height petty criminals and drug addicts, The threats of bodily harm — and company continued chopping away limits, and affordable housing and recreate scenes of dancing Irish- actual injury — perpetrated by both at the hill until 1899, in order to requirements — slows the transfor- men and Slovenians, with poverty, sides, in addition to arson and thefts, build additional structures. The City mation down, and directs it along alcoholism, domestic violence, and were reported regularly in the news- may have funded the excavation as specified rivulets, but by no means crowded, poorly-insulated homes papers. The war went on for several part of a plan to extend Sixth Street stops or fundamentally alters its airbrushed away. But we need not years, with a final battle in 1892. The from Channel Bridge to Kentucky, nature. Money finds profit; politics glamorize the past to yearn to build two sides fought it out in the streets, now Third, Street. The extension prefers inertia; both tend to despise the future we want our children to knee-deep in the mud, wielding knives was never built. Then, in 1918, flush diversity. Without dedicated focus live in. and clubs, and in at least one case, a with cash from its prolific shipbuild- and funding, investment in public There’s no other city anywhere gun. By the time the Potrero Station ing for World War 1, Bethlehem amenities, such as transporta- in the world like San Francisco, policemen arrived, Frank McManus Steel — which had purchased Union tion, parks, schools, affordable nor will there ever be. Our home is had fired his gun at Thomas Welsh at Iron Works — bought the lots at 20th and senior housing, will lag pri- worthy of World Heritage Center point blank range, and missed. Street between Michigan and Illinois vate sector development, and may status. Once places are lost — the After years of unpunished crimi- streets to build a $130,000 concrete never materialize, except as part of Fillmore before redevelopment; a nal activity — extortion, bribery, pub- foundry building. Like the Sixth heavily-scrutinized developments Hill with affordable housing — they lic drunkenness, vandalism, battery, Street extension, the foundry build- like Pier 70. Kids who grew up in the rarely return. It’s a conversation assault with a deadly weapon, and ing was never constructed. The land neighborhood will not ever be able worth having: what kind of City do even vulgar language — the ‘King of was used as a parking lot, looking to afford to come home. we want to create, and for whom? the Potrero’ was dethroned. In 1894, very much as it does today. Some Hill residents, notably when his favorite brother, Cornelius, The military build-up for the former San Francisco mayor Art was stabbed and killed in a bar fight Second World War prompted more Agnos, are calling for an entirely at the Union Hotel, McManus slowly decimation of Irish Hill, this time different approach to development, drank himself to death. He died two on a larger scale. Millions of cubic based on an engaged democratic GO VOTE! years later at the age of 57. yards of rock and soil were blasted conversation that defines the types NOV. 4TH Most Irish Hill residents were and hauled away from the area of communities we want to become, hard working, law-abiding citizens. surrounding 22nd Street, between and adopts the tools to create those They toiled as laborers at the Iron Georgia and Maryland streets, where Works, and as shipbuilders, carpen- the bare-knuckle boxing matches had ters, welders, cooks, clerks, waiters, been held in the 1880s. One of Pier dressmakers, butchers, grocers and 70’s warehouses, Building 12, and blacksmiths. There was widow Jane its parking lot, built in 1941, sit on Jackson, who owned and operated a excavated land that is 90 feet below successful bakery on Irish Hill from the intersection of 22nd and Georgia 1885 to 1891. When her shop was streets, one block from Mike Boyles’ destroyed in the 1887 fire, she moved Steam Beer Dump. across the street, and eventually Ultimately, the industry that opened a second bakery in another brought about the settlement of Irish part of town. Hill also destroyed it. The only visible Patrick McCormick lived and reminder of a once vibrant commu- worked on Irish Hill almost as long nity’s existence is a lonely clump of the community existed. He started rock topped with wild fennel. color

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SHORT CUTS from page 4 if it related to art, Sofia and Brent were there, constantly “running into each other.” They shared concerns other. The spaces were big, the win- about the environment, the misuse of dows were huge and the place was a natural resources and destruction of paradise for art and kinship. It was the wilderness. Sofia and Brent mar- ultimately destroyed by develop- ried in 2011, but their partnership ment. Brent met his life partner, began long before the formal vows Sofia Carmi, at the San Francisco of marriage. Brent died of pancreatic International Art Fair in 1998 and cancer at home. then, at museums, gallery openings,

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