SAN FRANCISCO

SHORT CUTS

don’t know how, we love San Francisco.

Like

Me Are Fed Up With San

Francisco,” published in The New York Times, provoked the expected reactions from resident luminaries. Mission Local’s Joe Eskenazi picked at the weak spots underlying Moritz’s proposed political remedies, like a doctor, who, after completing a patient’s annual checkup, shakes his head sadly. Tim Redmond, of 48 Hills, and Eric Jaye, in the San Francisco Examiner, similarly asserted that Moritiz had misdiagnosed the problem, with progressives largely, if not loudly, powerless in the face of a dominant, incompetent, executive branch.

The real problem with Moritz’s perspective is that he announced it so loudly. San Franciscans, particularly the chattering class – me included – don’t like it when other people pontificate about their City. For longtime residents who refuse to relocate to the Peninsula or Sacramento, it’s a bit like one’s partner criticizing your mother. Yes, she’s annoying, talks too much about the wrong topics, and is a mooch. But she’s not your mother, so keep your mouth shut!

Deep in our hearts, crusted over by walking past one too many inebriated soul who we desperately want to help but

Still, Moritz isn’t wrong, at least at the headline level; which Eskenazi pointed out he probably didn’t write. Many, maybe most, of us are fed up with San Francisco. The thing of it is, we’ve always been fed up. What’s different right now is we’re both fed up and more of us feel powerless –or in some cases, newly empowered – to do anything about it.

Which is to say, the EuropeanAmerican, Asian-American and upperincome populations have joined other groups’ long-standing sense of frustration: Black San Franciscans, victims of redlining, “redevelopment,” the prison pipeline, toxic mortgages, and environmental racism which halved their population over the past fifty years; Bayview, Dogpatch, and Potrero Hill residents whose neighborhoods were municipally neglected through much of the same period; generations of families who believe they had to exodus the City to find decent schools.

The problems with which a wider swath of us are fed up about – too many unsheltered people; problematic street

PUBLISHER'S VIEW continues on page 10

$68 Subscription $132 Subscription-Benefactor Other contribution amount $ Please send my one-year subscription to: FULL NAME EMAIL ADDRESS STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE Enclosed is my check. Please send, along with this form, to: The Potrero View, 1459 18th St., #214, S.F., CA 94107 I am sending my payment via PayPal to office@potreroview.net. I love the View and would be delighted to support it by being a subscriber. YES! www.potreroview.net/product/subscribe or complete the form below SUBSCRIBE

Last month the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission approved designs for a new playground, sports viewing areas, community learning gardens and an outdoor ball court at Jackson Park. The $40 million renovation of the 4.4-acre Potrero Hill commons also includes creation of a dog run; moving the clubhouse from the park’s southeast corner to mid-block along Carolina Street, expanding the building by 4,700 square feet, renovating the kitchen, restrooms, and stage; and repositioning the overlapping ballfields to allow simultaneous games. Construction is expected to begin mid2026, completion by 2028. The project is a private-public partnership between San Francisco Rec and Park and Friends of Jackson Park

Arts Close

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts will permanently close this summer. “Although we will no longer have the physical space for curated shows, the art collection will remain with the McEvoy family and works from it will travel, as before, to select exhibitions,” the McEvoy family said in a statement. Founded by Chronicle Books publisher and arts philanthropist Nion McEvoy, the arts organization opened its 5,000-squarefoot gallery space in 2017 as part of the Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary art campus in Dogpatch,

mounting exhibitions that utilized artwork from the McEvoy Family Collection. McEvoy began primarily as a photography collector and eventually expanded to painting, video, installation and sculpture. His late mother, Nan Tucker McEvoy, granddaughter of San Francisco Chronicle co-founder M.H. de Young and Chronicle publisher from the 1980s to 1990s, was also a noted collector of such artists as Alex Katz, Diane Arbus, and Nan Goldin. A future tenant for the gallery hasn’t yet been determined.

No Guns

Every day, somewhere in the United States, a child finds a gun, generally in their home, resulting in death or injury. “If a little child picks up a gun, the strongest digit they have on their hand is the thumb and so when they want to

SHORT CUTS continues on page 7

Steven J. Moss

ACCOUNTING MANAGER Catie Magee

MARKETING MANAGER Richard Romero

MANAGER Helena Chiu