News from the Glen Park Association

A moment in time: Glen Park Gym, Feb. 19, 2012

elizabethweise — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:39:51 +0000

Photo by Michael Waldstein

Crime Report Feb. 1 – 15, 2012

elizabethweise — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:01:28 +0000

The following are crimes from the Ingleside station newsletter

Wednesday February 1 Nothing in the report from Glen Park

Thursday February 2

11:30am 300 Blk Arbor St Battery

Officer Coles was dispatched to a report of battery. Officers Curry, Sanchez, Pai and Campion-Healy also responded. The victim told the officers that the suspect, who lives with the victim, had gotten into an argument with a third party. The victim did not want the arguing going on in her house and asked the suspect and the third party to leave. The victim decided to give the third party a ride to the bus stop to abate the situation. The suspect attempted to spray the third party with pepper spray, but missed. The victim drove the third party to the bus stop and dropped him off. The victim returned home where she was confronted by the suspect. A verbal argument ensued when the suspect suddenly pulled out her pepper spray again, and sprayed it at the victim. The spray only contacted the victim’s clothing. The victim wanted to press charges. The suspect was arrested for battery and the pepper spray seized as evidence. Report 120091523

3:50pm 5800 Blk Diamond Heights Theft

Sgt. Inoncencio responded to a report of theft from a vehicle. The victim had parked and locked her vehicle before leaving it unattended. As she was walking back to her vehicle, the victim heard the vehicle’s alarm sounding. The victim saw the suspect leaning in to the passenger side window, and then saw him flee the scene. The victim continued to her vehicle and discovered that the suspect had smashed the passenger side window and stolen her purse. When the victim called to report her debit card stolen, it had already been used at a gas station. Officers searched the area for the suspect to no avail. Report 120092361

3:39pm 2900 Blk Diamond St Recovered vehicle

Friday February 3

11:10pm Glen Park Area Assault

PSA Flynn took a report regarding an assault. The victim was off hiking in Glen Park with some of his friends. The victim and his friends started a bonfire. The victim said that about 12 suspects approached the victim and his friends and started a physical altercation. The victim said at some point he was struck with a baseball bat in his neck. The victim fell to the ground and saw one suspect standing over him. All of the suspects fled the scene. The victim and his friends got onto a bus and went to have pizza. The victim reported the incident at the insistence of his hospital where he sought treatment for bruising to his neck. Report 120095365

9:00pm Monterey & Congo St Stolen vehicle

9:55pm San Jose & Randall St Vehicle accident (H&R)

Saturday February 4

3:00am 200 Blk Bemis St Stolen vehicle

3:10pm Unit Blk Miguel St Recovered vehicle

3:53pm Unit Blk Diamond Heights Vehicle accident

Sunday February 5

10:00am 200 Blk Chenery St Vandalism

Sgt. Miller responded to a report of a vandalism. The victim parked her vehicle, secured it left it unattended. When she returned, she discovered that two of her vehicle’s tires had been punctured. The victim said that there had been two other incidents where her vehicle was keyed. The victim believes she knows who has caused the damage, although she has never witnessed the suspect cause the damage. Report 120100146

Monday February 6 Nothing in the report from Glen Park

Tuesday February 7

6:19pm 200 blk Chenery Recovered Auto

6:30pm 800 blk Excelsior Stolen Auto

8:00pm Conrad/Sussex Stolen Auto

8:00pm 200 blk Laidley Stolen Auto

Wednesday February 8

2:30pm 2900 Blk Diamond St Burglary

Sgt. Miller responded to a report of a burglary. The victim said that he parks and secures his vehicle in a garage that is shared by the residents in his apartment building. One morning, the victim went into the garage to his vehicle and discovered the driver’s door ajar. Several items were taken from inside. The victim realized that he might have left his vehicle unlocked when he parked it last. The victim contacted his bank, since one of his credit cards was stolen. The bank informed the victim that the card had already been used by the suspect. Report 120108479

11:26pm 5200 Blk Diamond Heights Vandalism

Officers Hauscarriague and Almaguer responded to a call regarding a dispute. There was reportedly a gun involved. The officers located a victim, who had left the scene of the incident. The victim told the officers that she was shopping in the grocery store when she was approached by a suspect. The suspect had a small dog with her, and the victim commented to the suspect that it was unsanitary to bring a dog into a grocery store. The suspect told the victim to shut up, and referred to the victim using profanity. The victim responded back to the suspect, also using a profanity. Both the victim and the suspect exited the store, and walked into the parking lot. The suspect got into the passenger side of a vehicle. A male suspect then exited the same vehicle, holding a knife. The victim quickly got into her car, and suddenly heard breaking glass, which she realized was the rear window of her vehicle. The victim believed that the male suspect threw something at the window to cause it to break. The male suspect got back into the vehicle with the female suspect and fled. The victim followed the suspect’s vehicle for several minutes before finally pulling over, where she was contacted by officers. Report 120110838

Thursday February 9 Nothing in the report from Glen Park

Friday February 10

10:00am Unit Blk Monterey St Theft

PSA Heckenberg took a report regarding a theft. The victim was sitting in front of a coffee shop at a table. The victim left his cell phone on the table and went into the business for about thirty seconds. When he returned, his cell phone was gone. The victim tracked his cell phone to a downtown area and responded there. He asked around if anyone was selling iPhones. A suspect approached him and told him he knew a guy who was selling them. The victim handed the suspect $100. The suspect took the money and fled. Report 120114573

Saturday February 11

7:30pm 200 Blk Chenery Stolen Vehicle

Sunday February 12 Nothing in the report from Glen Park

Monday February 13 Nothing in the report from Glen Park

Tuesday February 14

11:48am Unit Blk Fairmount St Burglary

Sgt. Miller responded to a report of a burglary. The victim was in her home with her young child, taking a nap. When she woke up, she went downstairs and realized that a set of keys was missing. The victim went to her vehicle and saw that it was locked. She noticed the window down slightly, which was not how she had left it. The victim looked into the vehicle and noticed that the items inside looked as if they had been moved. The victim went back inside and found the back door was open and that three plastic cups that had been filled with change were missing. The victim believes the suspect entered the house through the unlocked back door and stole the car keys, which were used to open her vehicle. Report 120126619

Wednesday February 15

7:30pm 200 Blk Chenery Stolen Vehicle

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Glen Park Farmers Market Spring opening April 1

elizabethweise — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:18:27 +0000

GLEN PARK VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET

I want to give thanks once again to all the Groups,Associations and neighbors for their overwhelming support. Last year was a great success, and this year we have more events and activities planned!

Sunday mornings in Glen Park will not only be the time to shop at the Village Farmers’ Market, but also a place to meet and greet your neighbors.

The Glen Park Village Farmers’ Market will operate at the BART parking lot April 1 – November 25 on Sundays 10am – 2pm

Don’t forget to join us at: www.facebook.com/GlenParkVillageFarmersMarket

See you all there!

Sincerely,

Ric Lopez Glen Park Merchants Association

Coyote sighting in Sunnyside

elizabethweise — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:58:15 +0000

From a Sunnyside email list:

Coyote Sighting A large coyote was seen around 7:15am this morning wandering through the Sunnyside Rec Center. It entered via the steps at Melrose and was last seen behind the tennis courts. It did not appear to be afraid of humans.

CUP will be selling honey all week to benefit recess at Glen Park Elementary

elizabethweise — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:57:34 +0000

CUP Cafe has kindly agreed to help Glen Park Elementary with our fundraiser. They will have 8 oz/ jars of Glen Park Honey for sale all week (or until supplies run out) for $12 per jar.

It is local honey made right in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood.

Proceeds will help fund Glen Park Elementary School’s partnership with Playworks.

www.playworks.org/make-recess-count/play/playworks-san-francisco

Cup is located at 6 Monterey Blvd, near the Glen Park BART station.

Thanks to CUP! And thanks to Karen Peteros for offering up the honey!

Our own Great Day, here in San Francisco

elizabethweise — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:32:43 +0000

Jimmy Ryan on a set break at Bird and Beckett.

By Murray Schneider

On January 29^th, Jimmy Ryan and his Balboa Be Bop Band performed an encore to their earlier May 19, 2011 gig in the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Ryan, 72, and his Generation X jazz band mates warmed up the nearly capacity-filled theater with a rendition of Horace Silver’s “Blowin’ the Blues Away,” and then blew the 190 member audience away with two complete sets.

After Adam Bergeron, owner of the Balboa, tallies up his box office receipts he may not ever have to feel “blue” again about the future of his community-friendly theater, an endangered species given the myriad ways we now receive our entertainment.

“There are as many people here tonight,” said Leslie Rodd, a retired public librarian, “as I’ve seen before.”

Rodd, who lives with her husband, Carl, on Fulton Street and 10^th Avenue, walked two miles to hear Ryan, a fixture at Bird and Beckett’s Friday night jazz scene, and then watch “A Great Day in Harlem,” the 1995 Academy Award nominated documentary that recounts the events surrounding the taking of the iconic 1958 Esquire Magazine photograph of 57 jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie standing on the steps of a Harlem brownstone.

Well, 56 jazz giants were standing: Dizzy sat on a curb, looking very much like a very cool cat, allowing 12 neighborhood kids to mess around with his hat.

Art Kane, a young Manhattan art director and neophyte photographer, choreographed the Smithsonian-worthy photograph. And it was like herding cats, cool or otherwise, trying to cajole each one of the jazz luminaries to hit their marks at 10 A.M. on a summer’s morning at 126^th Street and Madison Avenue.

Headliner and drummer Ryan reminisced after playing his two sets, which were sandwiched between the film and a cartoon at the eclectic Balboa, the last independently owned movie theater in the Richmond.

“Getting my guys together a few minutes before show time,” Ryan joshed about assembling his ensemble that turned up only minutes before curtain time, “was like getting 57 players to stand still in front of a brownstone.”

Leslie Rodd, who often travels to Manhattan to check out jazz at the Village Vanguard and the Blue Note, and whose first husband was a jazz guitarist, was impressed. “The music was high quality and exciting,” she said. “It had a family feel because of Joel Ryan.”

Jimmy Ryan’s son, Joel, played trumpet in a sextet that included Bird and Beckett veterans Danny Grewen and Attila Medveczky, while Rory Ryan, Ryan’s wife, sold raffle tickets in the lobby and verified pre-sold tickets in the 1926-built art deco theater that prides itself on scheduling repertory programming.

Balboa Theater - Jimmy Ryan and "A Great Day in Harlem"

Like Bird and Beckett, which serves as an impromptu third place to Glen Park villagers, the Balboa Theater is more than simply a venue for Leslie and Carl Rodd to watch first-and second-run films.

A veteran librarian, Rodd has often reflected on the salutary nature of public places such as the Balboa. “It has a feel of a good public library,” she said, recalling that pianist Horace Silver donned a T-shirt embossed with ‘Save Books’ while interviewed for the film. “The theater’s inviting and it’s educational and it’s nice to be able to recognize your neighbors here.”

A veteran of many Balboa double bills, Rodd goes to some lengths to support her neighborhood resource, even buying holiday and birthday gift cards for her husband and friends that bundle together five films.

“The Balboa has a sense of the City,” she said, ‘”It tailors movies to San Francisco, not films that may play well in New York.” What the Balboa Theater does, what Jimmy Ryan’s Bird and Beckett Books and Records also does, is what Art Kane intuited over a half-a-century ago.

Both theater and bookstore speak to our need to gather in familiar and comfortable public places with groups of like-minded people. Hovering over a computer, opening a Netflix envelope or stuffing iPod ear buds into our lobes sometimes just doesn’t cut it.

“Art Kane was smart enough,” said Rodd, “to shoot his photograph on the steps of a Harlem brownstone, not in a studio.”

Esquire published Kane’s photo in January 1959 and Kane later concluded without an ounce of false modesty:

“It’s the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken.”

Movie patron studying the lobby photograph for Balboa showing of "A Great Day in Harlem."

But, of course, it’s much more than simply a record of 57 sleepy-eyed musicians who rarely rubbed the crust from their eyes before noon. It’s a record of a hip Manhattan neighborhood where people had protean night job playing jazz rifts, but also unvaryingly lived and shopped together, did chores for one another, attended church together, as well as jammed and rehearsed together.

It’s a photograph of not simply 57 jazz idols, all but four of whom are now no longer with us, but of an era and its quintessentially American music and musicians, empathetic and resilient enough to allow 12 children to sidle over to Dizzy Gillespie, the monarch of be bop, and play tug-of-war with his “Mad Men”-era topper.

Leslie Rodd summed it up well as anyone when she cited trumpeter Art Farmer from the “A Great Day in Harlem.” “Farmer said of Young,” Rodd said “that Lester is gone now, but his music will live on forever.”

Rory Ryan figured as much, as well, when she studied a second set backdrop for her husband and his youthful group. An outsized replica of Art Kane’s photograph replaced a white movie screen while 21-year old Danny Brown blew a mean tenor sax and Michael Parsons tickled his keyboard ivories.

“These were giants,” she told Ryan’s band, thinking about the threads of continuity stitching one musical decade to another. “You’re the next generation and your playing in front of giants.”

In his turn, Jimmy Ryan picked up on the significance of the evening’s events. “It was a privilege for an old guy like me to play with top guys like these four thirty-somethings.”

And Leslie and Carl Rodd? Well, they’ve been to the Balboa before when it has bundled jazz and cinema, attending a recent weekend retrospective of six film noirs, one movie melding the ethereal jazz chords of Miles Davis with two-timing femme fatales. “We plan our lunch around tubs of popcorn,” Rodd smiled.

It’s their theater in their neighborhood, but it’s also all of our music and all of our movies.

Read about the iconic Harlem photo at www.harlem.org

Jimmy Ryan and his band perform at Bird and Beckett on the second Friday of each month at 5:30 P.M.

Join the Park Policy Committee

elizabethweise — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:09 +0000

Neighborhood Parks Council

and San Francisco Parks Trust are now one.

Dear Park Lover:

SFPA is looking for San Francisco park activists, park lovers, and park supporters to join our Park Policy Committee (PPC). This newly formed volunteer team of park enthusiasts will collaborate with SFPA’s Board and Staff to research policy issues, influence SFPA policy positions and inform SF park users about SFPA positions and priorities. The PPC will be a diverse group of park leaders representing all San Francisco districts. Members of the PPC will represent neighborhood parks throughout their district. This is an opportunity to be the voice that sets grounded policy for San Francisco’s parks and open spaces.

If you are interested in joining the PPC, you can obtain the application packet here.

If you have questions about the PPC please emailpolicy@sfparksalliance.org.

Applications are due March 2, 2012 at 5pm.

Sincerely,

Meredith Thomas

Director of Policy & Planning

San Francisco Parks Alliance

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FRIDAY: Buy local honey, kid-made Valentine’s card at CUP and support Glen Park Elementary

elizabethweise — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:48 +0000

Hi Neighbors

This Friday, February 10, do some very unique shopping for Valentine’s Day while helping out your neighborhood school.

Glen Park Elementary will be selling 8 oz. jars of delicious, local honey made right here in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood!

In addition, there will be charming, home-made Valentine’s Day cards made by our very own Glen Park students.

Local, Glen Park Honey – $12 per jar

Valentine’s Day Cards – $3 each or 2 for $5

All at Cup, 6 Monterey Blvd.

Friday, February 10, 9:30am to 11am

As an added bonus, Cup makes some really delicious coffee if you haven’t tried them yet!

Glen Park second on list of SF ‘hidden gem’ neighborhoods

elizabethweise — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:58:33 +0000

See what the median price buys in secret gem neighborhoods locals prefer

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When people pore over listings in the San Francisco Bay Area, where do they most often want to live? Pricey Pac Heights? The trendy Marina? Family-friendly Noe Valley? Certainly, out-of-state home buyers fall back most quickly on the more famous of our many charming neighborhoods. Butlocals look for homes in less obvious places– at least according to a new study by the folks atTrulia.com.

The Chron’s Carl Nolte tells us to Be Here Now – and check out Bird and Beckett while we’re at it

elizabethweise — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:41:01 +0000

Make memories of the S.F. that you’re living in today

Carl Nolte, Chronicle Columnist

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Those of us in the San Francisco column business get a lot of mail from old San Franciscans -and they all claim that somehow, some way, the city was a lot better years ago.

It was cleaner, nicer, prettier. Everybody knew everybody. There weren’t all those annoying young people riding bikes right down the street and wearing jeans everywhere, even to the opera. And the homeless people! They would have all been run out of town. San Francisco was better then. You should have been there.