Potrero Hill (San Francisco, California)

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Potrero Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, located on the east side of the city, east of the Mission District and south of the South of Market area. It is roughly bordered by 16th Street to the north, Potrero Avenue or U.S. Route 101 to the west and Cesar Chavez Street to the south. There are many docks located on the eastern edge of the neighborhood, which are mainly built atop landfill.

Notable features of Potrero Hill include the Anchor Steam Brewery located on Mariposa Street, between Carolina and DeHaro Streets and owned by the washing machine heir Fritz Maytag, and a section of Vermont Street between 20th Street and 22nd Street that has many switchbacks, similar to Lombard Street.

'Potrero' is spanish for 'pasture' - the name derives from a 1835 land grant to Don Francisco de Haro to graze cattle in the 'potrero nuevo' ("new pasture").
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrero_Hill,_San_Francisco,_California
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Coordinates:   37°45'28"N   122°23'56"W

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  • Lived on Connecticut Street. Got out of the Projects..yay. Cesar Chevez used to be Army Street. Still call it that name. Can't get my head around CC Street. Great place to grow up. Now projects taken over by gangs, but the Major is going to knock down the blocks for the uuber rich people coming...hey get your groove on San Francisco:)
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