SF News Is the 'East Cut' Finally Dead? Awkward Neighborhood Name Disappears From Google, Apple Maps It's been just over seven years since the city and a nascent business district decided that Rincon Hill needed some rebranding, and they tried to make "East Cut" happen. It never happened, and now Google and Apple Maps seem to agree.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News Developer Coins New Neighborhood For New Highrise: 'Van Mission' This no-man's land between SoMa and the Mission, where Van Ness becomes South Van Ness, has been dubbed Van Mission by the marketing materials of a new high-rise. But will anyone ever really call it that?
SF News How Cow Hollow And Dogpatch Got Their Names, And More Fun Neighborhood Facts Yes, there were once cows in Cow Hollow, and back in 1880 the name for the area between Pacific Heights, the Marina, the Presidio, and Russian Hill would have made a lot more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Note To Yelp: Stop Trying To Make 'DivCo' Happen Back in the heyday of the Bold Italic, the website and its events team tried to do a "micro-hoods" thing where they rechristened familiar sections of the city with their own, non-realtor-approved monikers
SF News Bold Italic Tries to Rename La Lengua 'Bernal Flats' As we all know, some neighborhoods have names that are still up for debate in popular parlanceif we had a dime for every time some friend (or commenter) whined about the uselessness
SF News The Bold Italic Is Trying To Make 'Valencia Bottoms' Happen We know how everyone loves this neighborhood naming game, so allow us to up the ire factor today over a micro-hood being invented by The Bold Italic called Valencia Bottoms. They're having an
misc Phrenological San Francisco: Another Wacky Neighborhood Map from <em>7x7</em> For their Fall Arts Preview, 7x7 has produced yet another kooky neighborhood map, this time using the theme of phrenology, and like, human tendencies? Or something? Anyway, we live somewhere in the vicinity
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via T.N.: "Seriously, stop renaming my neighborhood, DivCo? Are you kidding me? Nopa wasn’t lame enough, and I hear the folks on the other side of the Park want it called
SF News Yay! Another Neighborhood Abbreviation: SoCha Fresh on the heels of SOMISSPO and Brock's nomination of LORI (Lower Outer Rincon Hill), the Chron today tells us about a brand new neighborhood abbreviation. And it's not just any new neighborhood,
