Safety Tips for the Holiday Season
Bob Barnwell, HVNA’s Public Safety Chair, would like to share a Holiday Safety Tips brochure created by SF-Safe. Please link to the brochure and read these tips. Let’s have a safe holiday season.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
General Meeting Recap 12/2/10
This evening, the HVNA general meeting had two presentations on transportation and planning. Margaret Cortes from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority presented the Central Freeway and Octavia Boulevard Circulation Study. Tilly Chang was also present to field transportation questions. … Read More
December General Meeting
7PM, Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 HVNA to host a general meeting at the Korean American Center: 745 Buchanan Street (at Grove) The following topics will be discussed: 1) Octavia/ Central Freeway Circulation Study 2) Conversion of Haight Street to two-way … Read More
Hayes Valley celebrates PARK(ing) Day [October-November 2010 print edition]
by Mari Hunter and Jamie Lopez With a reputation of being at the core of ingenuity, San Francisco played a gracious host in 2005 as Rebar, an art and design studio, transformed a metered parking space into public space. Coined … Read More
AgeSong Film Screening
Heather Donnell, Hayes Valley resident and local independent filmmaker, proudly presented her latest short film, OMAKASE, for the AgeSong community on Saturday afternoon, September 18th. Donnell was grateful to AgeSong who loaned her the audition room and rehearsal space for … Read More
Hayes Valley Playground & Clubhouse Renovation Project Update
By Gail Baugh Thanks to everyone’s hard work during the design phase in 2008-2009, Hayes Valley Playground is under construction! Over the next few months you will see the clubhouse progress from rough framing to a finished building. The site … Read More
Wallet Friendly Holiday Events
By Richard Johnson Like many I don’t have much money these days. Yet, here comes the holiday season, just the same. Wouldn’t it be great if we could put the stress of shopping aside and take the time to gather … Read More
An Intersection of Taste
By Bob Barnwell With over thirty restaurants in Hayes Valley it’s hard to choose where to eat. If you’re lucky enough to end up on Hayes Street at Laguna you have five unique restaurants, each with its own flavor, to … Read More
A History of 700 Hayes Street
By Gail Baugh Picturesque and architecturally eclectic, the mansard-roofed, domed tower house at 700 Hayes Street at Buchanan Street has drawn admiring glances for over 125 years. In the book Victorian Glory, author Paul Duchescherer describes this home as “Italianate/Second … Read More
HVNA Surveys 55 Laguna for Maintenance Issues
By Bill Bulkley 55 Laguna, the former UC Berkeley Extension site, has been vacant for over six years while development plans have been drawn, approved, and now flounder in economic limbo. Meanwhile, the five WPA era buildings, all listed on … Read More
Brief Re-cap of 55 Laguna Planning History
By Jason Henderson There continues to be a lot of uncertainty swirling around 55 Laguna (the former UC Extension campus bounded by Laguna, Hermann, Haight, and Buchanan Streets.) Many new people to the neighborhood may not be aware of the … Read More
TaskRabbit.com Blurring the Lines Between On- and Offline Community
By Laura Surma TaskRabbit.com, a web and mobile marketplace that provides people and businesses with an easy and trusted way to get everyday tasks done in their communities, recently launched in San Francisco. The website has vetted errand runners ready … Read More