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: 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]

Crime Beat: Strongarm Robbery

Information is from Mission and Ingleside District San Francisco Police Station newsletters.

March 6

Robbery -- 9:16pm, Church/Valley St.. Two men assaulted and robbed a pedestrian of his wallet, cash, bank cards, and identification. The victim told Ingleside Officers McMilton and Peregrina that he was walking on Church Street near Valley, when two men wearing “Hoodies” approached him and asked for money. When the victim said he didn’t have any funds, one of the suspects punched him in the nose causing the victim to fall to the ground. The suspects then reached into the victim’s pocket, took his wallet, and ran away.