This Week in Noe Valley: NōVY Preview, Lost Pet Bird, And A Photo Tour Of Baja Noe

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

• A sneak peek at NōVY [Tablehopper]
• Missing: Pet cockatiel last sighted near the Seward slides responds to whistling the song Tequila [Mickaboo]
• Upper Noe Valley "momiforms" [Far Out City]
• Noe Valley Bakery is 20 years old this week [@noevalleybakery]
• A photo tour of Baja Noe Valley [Mission Local]
• Noe Valley teardown lists for $859K, sells for $1.38M (and will sell for $4M in 2 years) [Curbed]
• Inside an unusual Noe Valley "Ship in a Bottle" home [Inhabitat]
• Philz Coffee has $30M in funding for nationwide expansion [TechCrunch]

[Photo: Tippy house via sfgirlbybay]

This Week In Noe Valley: Zuckerberg's Monster Remodel, Cyclists Spooked, Tuna Hearts And Other Frights

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

• Scott Wiener's October newsletter [Scott Wiener]
• A history of San Francisco architecture [The Bold Italic]
• What's $10-20 million to remodel a pied-à-terre if you're Mark Zuckerberg? [CNBC]
• Omnivore's upcoming events [Omnivore Books]
• This handy Halloween costume guide could spare us all (extra points for not dressing your kids like this) [SFist]
• Noe neighbors spooked by spate of cyclist deaths around the city [SF Appeal]
• Also: SFPD targeting cyclists who roll stop signs (it's about time) [SF Streetsblog]
• Fregola with cured tuna heart from La Ciccia is a must-eat pasta dish [7x7]
• Nice video of what the SF Recreation and Parks Dept does for the City [SF Rec & Park]

[Photo: pablo: "Noe knows Halloween"]

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: Victorians, July Fog, And A Google Bus Driver Dishes

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

• By our count this is the 3rd/4th realtor to get this property since the makeover [SFGate]
• Sanchez St Victorian finally recovers from the garage fire during construction [Socketsite]
• What type of building do you live in? [dpaul]
• While the rest of the country bakes, it's July in Noe Valley [emichbe]
• An interview with Noe Valley design blogger Victoria Smith of @sfgirlbybay [Daily Candy]
• San Francisco photographer Troy Holden shot superstar Chris Hadfield this week [@troy]
• Google Bus driver: "Driving in the Mission and Noe Valley, oh my god, it is such a nightmare" ...at 35mph [Buzzfeed]

[Photo: christinericks]

Rebirth Of Cool

In 2009, Gerry and Lisa lost their newly-constructed house to fire while on vacation. No one was hurt. "The first thing Lisa and I realized is that within the grand scheme of things, we have lost little.... Our children are here and well today. The rest is stuff, and most of it can be replaced, and of what cannot, we have memories."

And boy did they replace. All the details that bothered them from the first go-round were fixed: plaster instead of drywall, marble and granite instead of quarzite, a fire-vulnerable master suite moved to a lower level.

Today the New York Times profiles the rebirth of the 27th St house:

Gerry Agosta, who has spent 30 years in the Bay Area as a general contractor and developer, said there’s a hard truth in his line of work: “You never get a chance for a do-over. Every site commands a different design, so you’re always doing things for the first time.”

[NYT: From Ashes, Upgrades]
[NVV: Love Eases Heartbreak After Fire on 27th Street]

Noe Valley: Sun Francisco

One of the reasons we live in San Francisco: colorful architecture. Michael, an artist in Bernal Heights, walks with his daughter in the mornings and created a blog called Sun Francisco Art Houses to celebrate some of the sun-related motifs he's found, including some in Noe. Fun.

AIA Home Tour: Noe Valley This Weekend

Choy House, Terry and Terry Architecture

Sure... you can see a multi-million dollar house professionally designed by architects on any given weekend just by walking into an open house. But this weekend is special: it's the kick-off for the AIA Home Tour and Noe Valley is in Saturday's starting lineup. For $90 you get the opportunity to tour the Choy house (above), and then for fun you can shuttle yourself to four other locations around town and battle everyone else looking for parking. More events on Sunday and elsewhere around the Bay the following weekends.

[AIA San Francisco]