NVV September 2018: 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 other resources. Follow the NVV link at the bottom for full articles and all the ads.

September 2018

Front Page: The new California Pacific Medical Center (formerly St. Luke's) on Cesar Chavez is now open and focusing on maternity and elder care; St. Philip School turns 80; Richard Lee Merritt died in 2017 and left a massive library of books in his 23rd St home to his alma mater, the University of Montana; Local author Mary Jo McConahay celebrates the publication of a new book.

Letters: Celia Sack, owner of Omnivore Books and Noe Pet Company writes about the unprofessional response of the president of the NVMPA complaining about the Healthy Spot permit rejection for a formula retail pet store that would compete with identical lively businesses in Noe Valley; The 2018 Noe Valley Garden Tour was a big success; Jim Burr suggests we welcome an Apple Mini store in the old Real Foods space on 24th St; A neighbor writes about traveling outside the Noe Valley bubble and having conversations about Trump; Another neighbor is disappointed that the article on the Noe Valley Coffee Company neglected to mention the health risks of roasting coffee in a residential area; Another neighbor calls for a boycott of McDonald's because of the way they mistreat chickens.

Cost of Living in Noe Valley: 33 Noe Valley homes changed hands in June and July, twice the number from that period last year.  The average cost of a home in July was $2.1 million.

Store Trek: Hi-Way Burger & Fry,  3853 24th St at Vicksburg

Rumors and Tidbits: The Real Foods building at 3939 24th St is under construction and looking for tenants for 3 retail spaces. Cole Hardware inquired about renting the whole space but balked at the $30,000 rent. The building sold recently to a private investment group for $3 million. Also on 24th: the Radio Shack space is asking $10,000/month, the Noe Valley Cyclery spot is asking $4850/month, Pete's Cleaners is asking $7590/month, and the Sean spot is asking $4500/month. Rabat is staying in Noe Valley after all (yay!) and Small Frys moved into the Podolls space for the next 2 years while they remodel the original building and store at 4066 24th St. Compass real estate is colonizing Noe Valley and now has 4 offices here. The Basso family is rejoining the restaurant scene and will open Noe's Cantina - a Mexican themed bar and eatery expected to open in October in the old Hamlet née Basso's. The old Bliss Bar will soon open as Vive La Tarte, which also has a location in the Ferry Building.

[The Noe Valley Voice]

This Week in Noe Valley: The View Then and Now, 110% Home Appreciation in 6 Years and Beautiful Vintage Trains

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

• The view from Noe Valley in 1980 and now [@smarchivist and damoport]
• One Medical, which started with one office in Noe Valley now 72 strong and raising $350 million [SF Business Times]
• Noe Valley home prices have appreciated 110% in 6 years [My San Antionio]
• Air quality is bad – which means this [@SFgov and ggraudins]
• We have beautiful vintage Muni trains on Church St [sideshowjess]
• A 24th St fixture [meg_the-moo]
• God sky [laly0021]
• Vintage van [trmack]
• Psychedelic St. Paul’s by local artist [folourbliss]
• Steep [pagiacomazzi]

[Photo: William Eggleston at Alvarado shot from Eureka St. via eyeofted] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Tents in Noe Valley, Waterfall Fog and Fire Skies

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

• Tents in Noe Valley [@ErinMurray415]
• Video: Today’s Animal Fair in the Town Square featured kittens, bunnies, goats and pups [rentbuds]
• It’s August – here comes waterfall fog [kaz]
• These are fire skies [jrmuskie, ktpata, julimaorgach, bisignette]
• View of the downtown skyline from Noe Valley [@dasali]
• An interview with local author R.O. Kwon [SF Chronicle]
• Found: All the words [annieyanger]
• Beautiful house on the hill [sarvagabonds]
• Early AM tech bus traffic jam [adaecher]
• Slanted houses [miflatboy]

[Photo: Morning fire skies via natashaguupta] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Muni Pains, Cool Cops and Remembering Jonathan Gold

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

• Noe Valley resident, WWII hero and SFSU English professor Leo Litwak dies at 94 [SF Chronicle]
• How to help victims of the fires [KQED]
• Hmmm… gauche [San Franciscoian]
• Muni pains are bringing in day parkers to Noe Valley [@sfnoemom]
• The world is going to end and we're all going to die. What's worse, I'll never afford that $3M Noe Valley Victorian [@antoniogm]
• Even the cops in Noe Valley are special [@hannahgoldfield]
• Fairy housing in Noe Valley [@gillibits]
• Rabat has reopened and is offering 20% off clothing and accessories [rabatshoes]
• Check Please filmed this week at Uma Casa [@UmaCasaSF]
• Remembering Jonathan Gold at Omnivore Books [@omnivorebooks]
• Fogust is coming [tvham]

[Photo: The view with St. Paul's via lexiserrator] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Rabat’s Not Leaving, Noe Valley Socialists, and Podcast Love for Subs Inc Owner Rami Salat

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

• One less retail closure: Rabat Shoes staying in Noe Valley (yay!) [rabatshoes]
• How wealthy people in Noe Valley dispose of stuff (ugh) [@tamholland]
• Beautiful fog [osnola_sorac]
• A tribute to Sister Act, including the slumifying of Noe Valley for the filming [@peterhartlaub]
• Old meets new [erlendvarhaug]
• Silicon Valley socialists in Noe Valley are pushing a tech worker uprising [Fast Company]
• An interview with Rami Salat, founder of Subs Inc on 24th St. [Life Is Good Story Series]
• Oh hey, an Infowars flier in the heart of Noe Valley [@gripgrand] 

[Photo: Brunchin in Noe Valley via NovySF] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Road Rage Is Real, Curator Leaves Noe and a Sutro Tower Call to Action

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

• Road-rage bat attack in SF’s Noe Valley sends man to hospital [SFGate]
• Ahem, property crime is out of control in Noe Valley [@SFjkdineen]
• 4 story building in Noe Valley nixed by planning department [@NeverSassyLaura]
• Tallied votes: Noe Valley wanted Mark Leno to win the mayoral race [Bay City Beacon]
• Editorial: Keep the K/J muni line going! [SF Streetsblog]
• Woman injured in laptop grab in Starbucks [Hoodline]
• A call to action to save Sutro Tower [@urbanlifesigns]
• Sidewalk activism [eyeofted]
• Curator on Church St moves to Valencia [@F6x]
• California dreaming [allegraliu]

[Photo: A window in Noe Valley via FrankedonSF] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Summer Living, Real Foods Reality Sets In and Stunning Summer Skies

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

• No housing, nor major redevelopment, of long-shuttered Real Food Company site [SocketSite]
• Another take: Noe Valley's best candidate for dense housing under Home-SF is going to get subdivided into four more knick-knack shops instead [@graue]
• Anyone worried about high-density housing – it’s already happening [@bryanculbertson]
• Review: Hi-Way Burger and Fry [Hoodline]
• Those stunning, amazing, gorgeous, incredible, breathtaking, extraordinary and awesome sunsets this week [andresfaust, sphiebevan, @elaycohen, glenboy53, kyleuphoff, trmack, damoport, jsarchet_16]
• Earlier: Wildfire smoke made SF look sepia toned [PetaPixel and @bats1234]
• HealthySpot: Lots of other neighborhoods would be happy to have you [@bkbkbk]
• Beautiful Noe Valley doorway [juliegeb]
• 4th of July fireworks view from on high [qarchitecture]
• What’s behind some of those Victorian facades [@Dwellmagazine]

[Photo: Just a good boy waiting for his coffee via marthabroscoffee] 

NVV July/August 2018: 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 other resources. Follow the NVV link at the bottom for full articles and all the ads.

July/August 2018

Front Page: Haystack Pizza is the longest running restaurant in Noe Valley (46 years) and going strong; Healthy Spot pet store was denied a request to open due to neighborhood protest; Picturesque and vintage F cars return to the Church St Muni corridor.

Letters: The owner of Folio Books urges neighbors to spend time (and money) in Noe Valley if they want a vibrant 24th St; A local complaint about a 6 month no parking permit for construction from 7AM to 6PM, 7 days per week.

Features: The clothes recycling box headed for the parking lot on 24th near Castro has been shelved due to concerns from a neighborhood group; London Breed is mayor and Rafael Mandelman took the District 8 supervisor seat; Upper Douglass dog park may be shut twice a week to address neighborhood concerns with the site's grass turf; Police still seeking clues to attack on mother with baby on Sanchez on June 3; The Noe Valley Coffee Company is seeking approval to operate its own coffee roaster inside Spin City at 1299 Sanchez at 26th; Summerfest 2018 is coming to Noe Valley from 11am-4pm on July 29.

Cost of Living in Noe Valley: Just 7 single family homes sold in May for an average price of $2.69 million; a mere 4 condos sold for an average of $1.3 million. A $4.9 million home sold on the 200 block of 28th St. and the most expensive homes and condos sold both went to private sales before they hit the market.

Store Trek: Moe's Barbershop and Beauty Parlor,  4008 24th St near Noe St.

Rumors and Tidbits: Of the 16,415 voters registered in Noe Valley, 64 percent cast their ballots in June; The crocheted animals in the trees on Diamond St between Alvarado and 23rd are the loving handiwork of local artist Huib Petersen, and a small protest against the "creepiness" of "the man in the White Hous;." Podolls is closing on July 9 and Small Frys is moving into the space; Sean, a menswear store on 24th has closed; The old See Jane Run space is going through a seismic retrofit and is for rent; Building permits have been issued and work has begun to create 3 new commercial spaces in the old Real Foods space; Douglas is now open at 1598 Sanchez; The Noe Valley Merchants and Professional Association is looking to add more murals by local muralists to downtown Noe Valley with the first ones planned for Rachel Swann's office on Vicksburg, Honeycomb Spa, Philz Coffee and possibly Novy.

[The Noe Valley Voice]