This Week in Noe Valley: High End Homes Languish, More Bar Robberies & Fires, Gentrification 1977 Style

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

• 24th Street Luxe townhouses not selling [Curbed]
• More SF homes sit unsold as inventory grows [SFGate]
• Revamped and modern Little Chihuahua reopens [Hoodline]
• More bar robberies in the Mission - which sound a lot like the recent Noe Valley incidents [Mission Local]
• The helicopters you heard this week were for a fire at 24th and Valencia [Hoodline]
• Don't let the inactivity fool you: New beverage director named at Uma Casa (in the former Incanto space) [Eater]
• By 1977, Mission gentrification was framed as middle class spillover from Castro & Noe Valley [@enf]
• A good start: 60 news-rack pedestals will be removed from San Francisco sidewalks within the next month [SFGate]
• Cool old maps of SF [Curbed]

[Photo: Bougainvillea doorway via Beyond Ordinary]

This Week In Noe Valley: Low-Flying Copters, Billy Joel, And Other Signs of Labor Day

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

• Those low-flying helicopters you've been hearing are measuring radiation levels [ABC7]
• Shameless BuzzFeed linkbait asks: Which SF Neighborhood Are You? [BuzzFeed]
• NV Democratic Club says no on Prop F, the measure banning homesharing [@NoonPropF]
• Noe Valley loses a Permastoned house on Sanchez [Curbed]
• Video Wave moves, future looks sweet [SF Chronicle]
• Spin City gets a cool new bike rack/art installation [@rollercams]
• Yep, that was the Billy Joel concert you heard this weekend [@koastrem]
• Mitchell’s Dairy Farm near 29th and Noe Streets in the late 1800s [Mitchell’s]
• Firefly makes another Best Fried Chicken list [Eater]

[Photo: Labor Day in Noe Valley via @adrianbonifacio]

This Week In Noe Valley: A Bank Robbery, Bagel Fights, And Other Mischief You May Have Missed

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

• A writer’s favorite dish at Bacco [Inside Scoop SF]
• Suspect sought in Sterling Bank robbery earlier this week [SFist]
• Best bagel in SF? In the comments, a native New Yorker vouches for Holy Bagel [Eater]
• Noe Valley: there’s an app for that [neighbrhds.com]
• Coming in Oct: L'Atelier - a collective of Bay Area designers and artists [Racked]
• Not everyone is excited to have Tacolicious HQ in the hood [@aepiv]
• Another stuck commuter bus [@karlsf]
• The helicopters you heard? Massive 5 alarm fire on Mission at 22nd [SF Gate]
• A photo of the fire from Noe Valley [@ksherwood]
• Armistead Maupin popped into Omnivore Books for some munchies [@omnivorebooks]

[Photo: Fence of old doors on 22nd St steps via hellokeltie]

This Week In Noe Valley: Gov At James Lick, More Shuttle Bus Nastiness, Bethany Is Back

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

• Governor Brown kicked off the James Lick school year [SF Appeal]
• DPW has made sidewalk landscaping permits easy [SFDPW]
• Another shuttle bus (driver) behaving badly [SFist]
• Noe Valley's official car? [@CarinaOst]
• There must be a video geek in Noe Valley who will appreciate this [pbump]
• July condo sales in Noe Valley average $1M plus [Downing & Co]
• Bethany returns to renovated church; open house is September 15th according to sign in windows [Bethany]
• At least we know why there may be another helicopter in the air for a while [NNSA]

[Photo: Whole Foods parking lot construction or just another day?]

What's Up With the Bleepin' Helicopters?!?

A comment on a another post (deleted and promoted to here) hit at an issue we'd like to tackle:

kdogluv said...

Does anyone know why so many helicopters have been hovering [over] Noe Valley recently? Thx

We know that many of the "flying rocks" have been in and around the 'hood to monitor the MILK premiere, No on 8 protests and the anniversary of the deaths of Harvey Milk & George Moscone. Tonight they seemed to be focusing on the Caesar Chavez and Mission area (at least from our window), but KCBS, KGO, the Chron and other news sources had nothing to say about it - five helicoptors don't seem to warrant any real news.

In the interest of the ultimate in voyeurism (and NIMBYism) we'd like some input: how best to find out what's going on when there's helicoptors overhead? Twitter, news sites, hotlines, whatever - we want to know. Put your suggestions in the comments, please.

In the meantime, we're going to research the laws that govern helicopter swarms. Our feeling is that if they're SFPD, Coast Guard or Lifeflight ... fine - news vultures can buzz off.