This Week In Noe Valley: Shop Local, The Fleeing Middle Class, And The 2014 District 8 Supervisor Race Has Begun

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Oh to be young again - exploring the tunnels under San Francisco [The Bold Italic]
• Cardio-Tone is moving to outer Church - will take over Kohler Jones, née Mikeytom Market [@F6x]
• Employees of the The Little Chihuahua in Noe Valley outkicked the Divisadero team [thelittlechihuahua]
• The New York Times tries to explain why the middle class may be leaving San Francisco; commenters retort that it's because SF sucks [New York Times]
• ...And SFGate piles on the middle-class-is-leaving meme [SFGate]
• Post-Thanksgiving shopping doesn't have to be dangerous - shopping in Noe Valley is quite civilized [SFGate]
• Man arrested for trying to take photos of Scott Wiener in the bathroom files to run for D8 Supervisor [Castro Biscuit]
• Ex-Googler starts a food delivery biz that caters to NV and nearby areas [SF Biz Times]
• Noe's Nest bed and breakfast and owner Sheila Ash are... "eclectic" [Mission Local]

[Photo: "The holidays in Noe Valley" by @mchou]

This Week In Noe Valley: The Holidays Are Here, Starbucks Reboots, And A Flying Car On 23rd St

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• It's already Christmas in Noe (at least in front of Just for Fun) [Michael Creasy]
• Starbucks is closed for a week - use it as an opportunity to upgrade to a better local coffee shop [@ESBAle]
• Spark Creativity closes studio to "go mobile" [@NoeValleySF]
• A suspect with "a lot on his mind" was seen in the Noe Valley area vandalizing several parked vehicles [Ingleside Station Newsletter]
• October Condo sales"cooled ever so slightly" [Downing & Co]
• Photo tour of a Noe Valley designer's rock-and-roll home [Design*Sponge]
• Sandbagging victims from a bike was once a popular way to mug people in SF [Burrito Justice]
• Yet another truck fail in Noe Valley (but technically not high-centered) [@egpdejong]
• South on Dolores from 23rd St, 1923 [SF Historian]
• 23rd Street was also home to a Flying Car in the '20s [io9]

[Photo: "It's pouring out here!"adbonifacio]

Affordable Indian Restaurant To Replace Swatdee Thai

We learned last week that Swatdee Thai Cuisine is closing, and this week there's news from Tablehopper about what will be fill the space:

James [Swatdee] said the restaurant is closing on November 30th, and will then be remodeled for about six weeks or so. Taking Swatdee’s place will be an Indian restaurant (the owners are also behind Little Delhi in the Tenderloin). Indrajit Ghosh, one of the owners, reports that the new location will be very similar to Little Delhi, but will feature a menu inspired by different regional dishes of India. Many of their staples will be on the menu, as well. The name will be new, but it’s still under wraps, so we can’t tell you quite yet.

Check out Little Delhi's website for an idea of what's to come.

This Week In Noe Valley: Fines For Real Food Blight, Google To Take Over The City, And Easy Breezy Is The Best Froyo

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Google may open a massive SF campus, which makes us wonder how workers will get there (public transit?) [SF Biz Times]
• Richard Brewer-Hay's kids do some cool stuff - this time appearing in a SF Bulls ad [esbale]
• Julia Turner of Slate loooooooves Noe Valley's Happy Donuts (skip to 46:36) [Slate Radio]
• The Real Foods space may not be occupied anytime soon, but at least Nutraceutical will pay the City for the blight [@bwalsh]
• This week's real estate porn: 1612 Church Street [Socketsite]
• Easy Breezy wins an international frozen yogurt award (no really!) [PR Log]
• A brief history of the wood sculpture at the top of Clipper [Art & Architecture SF]

[Photo: thesamekz]

Closing: Swatdee Thai Cuisine

The Twitter brought news today that Swatdee is to close:

My parent's restaurant in the city will close November 30th. If anyone's interested: 4166 24th St. (between Castro & Diamond) Noe Valley
— Melly Sawatdee (@melleejayne) November 12, 2013

More from Swatdee:

After 26 wonderful years in Noe Valley, Swatdee Thai Cuisine will close its doors on November 30th. We would very much like to thank each and every one of you for your love and support over the past two decades. It will be one of the toughest things to do, but we are more than excited to start a new chapter in our lives. Many memories have been made and we are very grateful to have been a part of your lives, as you were a huge part of ours.

Thank you.
Sawatdee Family and Staff

This Week In Noe Valley: Voter Apathy, TWTR Angst, And Farmer's Market Love

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• "I wonder how much my house is worth now" - Everyone in Noe Valley. $TWTR [@ingerhogstrom]
• Open houses this weekend in Noe [Curbed]
• Just 33% of District 8 voters turned out for the election [SF Examiner]
• Whole Foods at Market Street opens - a photo preview of the space and apts  [Inner Mission Blog]
• SF vs. NYC includes a reflection on "how terrible the produce is in New York compared to the farmers' market back in Noe Valley" [Bold Italic]
• Agit-prop is alive and well in Noe Valley [@timbelonax]
• District 8 has more pet owners than the rest of the city; Scott Wiener pushes for more Animal Care and Control funding [SF Examiner]
• Noe Valley Rec Center's November newsletter is out - and they need a volunteer writer [NVRC]

[Photo: Below: people protesting Twitter. Above: Twitter people enjoying the sun. #pointofview #twitter via sutterlarkin]

NVV Nov 2013: We Read It So You Don't Have To

The Noe Valley Voice is published ten times a year and has been a neighborhood fixture since 1977. Here are notable highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered here on NVSF or outside sources as the Voice doesn't post stories online until the middle of the month.

November 2013

Front Page: Valley Tavern hosts "Pub Quiz" Nights every Tuesday; Aesthetic Dentistry participated in Give Back a Smile to help a battered woman; Phoenix becomes Folio; Noe Valley Ministry remodel is on schedule and will reopen with ¡HolaKids! preschool next fall; Mazook gets 4" of Rumors on the front page.

Letters: The NVMPA wants you to know that 24th between Castro and Noe made San Francisco Magazine's top ten blocks for gift buying; Poet Tom Peck is angry Scott Wiener helped shut down the Market Street Recycling Center.

Short Takes: Plans to renovate Noe Courts stalled when tennis players showed up in force at last meeting, so there's a new final meeting on Nov 13 from 6-8pm at St Philip's.

Cost of Living in Noe: Low inventory, relatively lower prices for homes in September; 1 bedroom apartment average hovers around $2,700/month.

Store Trek: Buttons Candy Bar.

Rumors: Scott Wiener and Carol Yenne went to Utah and met with Nutraceutical Corp, which plans to demolish the Real Foods building next year and construct an unspecified replacement that won't include one of their own stores (start dreaming); Tom Taylor and Jerry Goldstein of the "Christmas Tree House" on 21st St got married once the Supreme Court struck down DOMA and Prop 8 - 40 years after they hooked up at the baths; Be Yoga has opened; "Best of" lists recounted; La Ciccia offshoot La Nebbia plans to open by the end of November; Firefly celebrates 20 years.

[The Noe Valley Voice]

This Week In Noe Valley: Empire On 24th St, Gambling On Renovations, And Angst About Google

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Buttons Candy Bar rounds out a mini empire on 24th St [Racked SF]
• Nice roundup of large scale projects in San Francisco that were never realized [Urban Life Signs]
• It was a relatively quiet month for home sales in September [Downing & Co]
• Reno and flip on Dolores asking $2.875M, developer takes credit for plans approved 3 years before developer bought the house [SF Gate]
• Another Dwell-ified Victorian practically across the street on Dolores has cut $200k from the asking price [Curbed SF]
• All this has Germans worried about Google gentrifying "Hippies und Flower Power" out of Noe Valley [tagesschau.de]

[Photo: Halloween on Jersey St, NVSF]