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 Even SF's Own City Departments Can't Agree On Neighborhood Boundaries It should come as a shock to no one that there exists no single, official, definitive map that delineates where the Inner Sunset begins and ends, or where the line is drawn between The Mission and Potrero Hill — though many of us have our own ideas.
SF News Now They're Trying To Rebrand Rincon Hill As 'The East Cut' And You Know What? No. A community benefit district downtown that encompasses what we usually call Rincon Hill and the Transbay District is spending $70,000 on marketing to get us to accept their new name for the
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Neighborhoods Portrayed As Dog Breeds, In Costumes This brief video by Videopixie's Libby Cooper shows some animated dog breeds representing each of eleven neighborhoods. It should be noted that pitbulls make it on here twice (for The Mission and the
Arts & Entertainment New 'Judgmental' Map Of S.F. Neighborhoods Amuses, Confuses Click to enlarge This new map of the city by local funny guy Dan Steiner popped up on Curbed yesterday, and much like similar maps that have come before, it's an amusing and
SF News Google To Take Over Space In The Mission [Updated] It's official: The Mission is over. In an effort to lure techies who don't want to work in downtown San Francisco or get inside a private bus and head down to Mountain View,
Arts & Entertainment Bernal Heights Is The Hottest Neighborhood In The U.S. Right Now Home to lesbian bar Wild Side West, eye-popping vistas, chicken pot pie purveyor Liberty Cafe, quaint moments, cement stairs, and a calf muscle-building incline (i.e., Cortland Avenue), Bernal Heights* has been named
Arts & Entertainment Test Your S.F. Neighborhood Knowledge With This Distracting Website Sure, making up neighborhood names is great. (Especially if you're a realtor.) But can you correctly identify 37 different, commonly accepted neighborhood locations on a map while a ticking stopwatch taunts you from
Arts & Entertainment Why Is Mission Bay So Ugly? You know that piece of etiquette we mentioned last week? The one that said not to put down other neighborhoods? Let's press pause on that real quick. Because we have a yellow-stucco bone
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave In San Francisco Neighborhoods From Alamo Square to Yerba Buena: Stop with the posturing about the inferiority of other neighborhoods. Don't define yourself or others by a zip code. Leave your comfort zone. Be yourself. Try it.
Arts & Entertainment It Finally Happened: Livermore, CA Named Top 5 'Hottest Neighborhoods for 2013' We knew it was only a matter of time before some Internet slideshow finally saw the outer fringe of the Bay Area for what it's worth. Although Walnut Creek has yet to achieve
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Let's Take Another Romp Through S.F. Neighborhood Stereotypes, Shall We? The Bold Italic makes the bold move today of giving us a mildly amusing listicle that cycles through all of the neighborhoods in San Francisco where a newcomer might find themselves looking for
Arts & Entertainment Interactive Map Uses Fancy Algorithm To Figure Out What You Already Knew About Your Neighborhood Livehoods.org, a project built by a bunch of computer science nerds from Carnegie Mellon University, aims to provide some human-level insight about how neighborhoods in San Francisco (and New York and Pittsburgh)
SF News Redistricting Could Force Supervisors To Actually Live In The Neighborhoods They Represent As San Francisco redraws the borders of the neighborhood districts represented by our 11 city supervisors, a few members of the Board might want to start trawling Craigslist for new apartments. David Chiu,
Arts & Entertainment Lower Haight Named 2011 Neighborhood Of The Year Beating out popular arrondissements like The Mission and North Beach, the Lower Haight nabbed Curbed's tight 2011 San Francisco Neighborhood of the Year battle. And we can see why: Lower Haight retains its
SF News New-ish Neighborhood Names, Boundaries Has your neighborhood name or boundary changed? Maybe. Don't know? Check out SFGate's article on San Francisco neighborhoods, which could reveal that, heavens to Betsy, you now live in Yerba Buena, Candlestick Point,
SF News What Does Your S.F. Neighborhood Say About Your Health? The Chronicle's Victoria Colliver penned a fascinating story in today's issue, one that mentions an "online report card on the health of San Franciscans" that's being introduced today "by a consortium of public
misc S.F. Neighborhood Gang Sign Chart Troy Holden brings our attention to this gem, How 2 Rep Suckafree, a chart that allows you to throw up your 'hood sign, and thus bask in OG glory. While it lacks proper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tenderloin Gets Trendier After much anticipation, artisan coffee shop, Hooker’s Sweet Treats Cafe, which serves Sightglass Coffee and gourmet confections and baked goods, officially opened yesterday at Hyde and O'Farrell. Tenderblog was at the grand
misc What Parts Make Up the Tenderloin? Tenderblog has a poll going about what exactly makes up the Tenderloin and questions whether the TenderNob actually exists. Also, is Civic Center part of the Tenderloin or not? We think Maps #3
SF News Angry Resident Spraypaints Open Letter to Neighbor On Alamo Square House Oh wow. An angry resident on Alamo Square spraypainted an open letter to a perturbed neighbor on the side of the former's house. Located on the northeast corner of Fulton and Scott near
SF News What San Francisco Neighborhoods Would Cartoons Live In? Hoodscope came up with this deliriously joyful bit: in which SF neighborhoods would cartoon characters live? Brilliant. Let's see, in the spicy meatball that is North Beach, they've got the Mario Brothers; in
SF News More Necessary Neighborhood Abbreviations Revealed Local online types suffered violent fits of uncontrolled hysteria this week after SFGate proudly and justly declared SoCha a new boutique neighborhood south of Cesar Chavez.. (For those of you who patriotically refuse
SF News SOMISSPO Neighborhood Accepted On Popular Photo Site Regular readers know that SFist loves nothing more than neighborhood nomenclature -- especially when the naming is unauthorized. For example, we prefer to think of SFist being headquartered not in SOMA, but in
misc Call For Submissions: Neighborhood Gems Photo Project Get out there and shoot some photos of your favorite neighborhood spots this weekend, or dig through your archives. Good Magazine, in partnership with Pictory Magazine, is looking for some great shots of
