This Week in Noe Valley: Pocket Monsters Everywhere, Fire Fallout and Renting in the 94114

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Interview with Cole Hardware’s founder including details about rebuilding after the recent Mission Cole fire [Hoodline]
• ICYMI: Noe Valley is a Pokemon Go sanctuary [heronramos]
• A luxe Noe Valley remodel gets the Dwell treatment [Dwell]
• Another $4.4 million home hits the market [Curbed]
• An attic fire breaks out at 25th and Grandview and is quickly contained (no injuries)[@abc7newsbayarea]
• Now open: New trail connecting Billy Goat Hill to Walter Haas Park [@Scott_Wiener]
• Bistro SF Grill is open for dinner [@NoeValleySF]
• Crows Ravens in Noe Valley [@Siliconlaw]
• Omnivore’s summer book events look amazing (as always) [Omnivore Books]
• 94114 is the city’s most competitive rental zip code [SFGate]
• A Noe Valley woman is leading the fight to get tech companies like Uber and Airbnb to pay for what they’ve done to SF’s housing market [Good]
• Artifact from the past on 24th Street [ranivision]

[Photo: Summer color via maria.bruno.sf]

This Week in Noe Valley: Pricey Home Facelifts, Rotary Club Moves In, and a Local Artist’s Project

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Little Artistas moves in next door to Little Folkies (of course they did) [littleartistas]
• Local artist and computer scientist launches ArtAtomic scarves [Indiegogo]
• The second oldest Rotary Club in the world is in SF – and it now offers a Noe Valley/Castro chapter [Hoodline]
• Sidewalk Sale coming to 24th St on May 21 [Eventbrite]
• “Pricey home facelifts” in Noe Valley in the national news [WSJ]
• A “passive home” in Noe Valley featured on ABC7 [ABC News]

[Photo: Billy Goat Hill via @TheGreenGoat_SF]

This Week In Noe Valley: The Podolls Arrives, A Mailbox Jacking, And An Ode to Valley Tavern

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

• Noe Valley Is Pretty, but How Many TVs Does One Bar Need? [SF Weekly]
• The Space Invader home is in contract...again [SocketSite]
• An interview with the owners of The Podolls [SFGate]
• Beautiful sunrises and sunsets this week [thatsthejuan and merrij]
• Noe Valley has a history of obnoxious land barons: The story of a former cement magnate chopping up Billy Goat hill + cool photos [FoundSF via FrontStepsSF]
• Speaking of which: Somebody sabotaged the Bill Goat Hill swing again. Scuttlebutt says it's a grumpy neighbor. [@sfgirlbybay]
• Mailbox jacking in the hood – apparently it’s a thing [@igb]
• Stating the obvious: S.F. housing inventory in years-long decline, leading to mass overbidding [SF Gate]
• The J Church explained: One NextBus minute is equivalent to three of your Earth minutes [@40goingon28]
• Noe Valley branch of the GCP on duty [@danfuzz]
• Whole Foods Drive [@NoeValleySF]
• Local oring guse stand [@peephole]

[Photo: Hi, city via carapatriciasf]

This Week In Noe Valley: Mike's Shoe Resurfaces, First Apple Watch Spotted At Toast, And Other Signs Of The Times

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

• Found: The giant light up shoe from Mike's of Noe Valley Shoe Repair - it’s in these guys’ backyard (um, is that stealing?) [Curbed]
• First Apple Watch allegedly spotted in the wild at Toast in Noe Valley [@LarsenPro]
• NOVY Restaurant will open Monday March 16 for dinner [@novysf4000]
• First NOVY menu review via KCBS FoodieChap: "eclectic but includes pasta" [@liammayclem]
• Noe Valley cleaners at 29th and Noe is closing due to a massive rent increase [@NoeValleySF]
• Not much news in the latest issue of the Noe Valley Voice [NVV]
• Eco-groovy clothing store PoDolls opens on 24th Street [Racked]
• Noir-ish photos of Noe Valley from the Friday Night Drinking and Shooting Club [Flickr]
• Burglary suspects on 100 block of 27th Street nabbed [ABC7]
• Yes, there is a local birthing DJ (oh, Noe Valley) [@amandabuzzard]
• Dogs can’t read - #passiveagressive signs in Noe Valley [esbale]
• From $1.2 million to $4.995 in 3 years [Curbed]
• Dolores Park today (holy ****) followed by this grossness [@flrrent and @TransitMonkee]
• Appreciation for a less crowded city park: Billy Goat Hill [SF Chronicle - and there's a paywall]
• A depressing map of median SF 1 bedroom rents – Noe Valley is at $3,500 [SFGate]
• A new lending library in front of Whole Foods [merrij]

[Photo: Curbed]

This Week In Noe Valley: Similar SF Neighborhoods, Noe Valley Stereotypes, And War Breaks Out On Vicksburg St

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

• Photos of Billy Goat Hill [7x7]
• Google Shopping Express has arrived [@timpapandreou]
• Gas leak on 25th St [SF Appeal]
• OH: horrific travel story [@kevinchlo]
• Curbed's new associate editor thinks Noe Valley is like Sesame Street [Curbed]
• "Noe Valley is a poor man’s Russian Hill" [Anson Whitmer]
• Philz Coffee wants to be a good neighbor [via @Percysperson]
• An uprising on Vicksburg - #WarOnRats [@jane_e_nevins]

[Photo: Mosaic at Cradle of the Sun, by deemanator]

This Week In Noe Valley: Panoramic Views, a Secret Garden, And Other Reasons To Love Noe

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

• SF architecture, part 2 - 1915 to today [dpaul]
• Are your neighbors hurting your property values? And is this your Noe neighbor wandering around naked in the back yard? [InsideSFRE]
• Bill Goat Hill makes a great unique date spot: "excellent views...less glass than Tank Hill" [SFist]
• Panoramic photo of San Francisco from Noe Valley [@atomjack]
• Learn to ride to school the right way (and how to stop for stop signs) [Noe Valley Rec Center Event]
• A secret garden door in Noe [macleanisnine]
• Scott Wiener's July/August newsletter [Scott Wiener] 

[Photo: Barbara T]

This Week In Noe Valley: Better Police Reporting, Cheapest Teardowns, And A Rope Swing With A View

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

• Are you listening @SFPD? This is the the level of detail people want [NY Times]
• Does Noe Valley need an underpass parklet? [Neighborland]
• Curbed highlights the cheapest teardowns and possibly reasonably priced NV housing (likely already in contract) [Curbed]
• Daily Secrets fetishizes Billy Goat Hill's rope swing [Daily Secrets]
• Patxi's is changing its menu - going for an authentic Neapolitan pizza [Eater]
• Noe Valley's Michael Capozzola On Check Please looks like he barely tolerated his co-stars [KQED]

[Photo: NVSF]

A Day In The Life Of Billy Goat Hill

Via Burrito Justice comes this slightly haunting and totally cool 360 degree "pan lapse" shot from Billy Goat Hill. Ken Murphy is the same artist who shot the three-and-one-half-day time-lapse of the Muni rail replacement at 30th/Church. And also the mesmerizing History of the Sky.

[Vimeo: Ken Murphy]