Pretty Funny Take, Though
San Francisco Bay Guardian : Best of the Bay 2006 : Neighborhoods
It's the end of the day, and like so many other noble laborers in the city, I'm sipping an icy cold Sierra on the back deck of Dago Mary's Restaurant. From here it's possible to see the sunset reflecting off the faces of distant downtown buildings and miles of opaque, indescribably blue ocean and sky that look so pure I feel like I've died and gone home to down east Maine.It also happens to be only a few hundred yards down the hill from my own humble abode. In fact, I had lunch there yesterday. Fairly basic for two, fried calamari, a crab louis, and the catch of the day (halibut) for sixty bucks with tip. Ouch!Except that I'm about 100 yards from a Superfund site. Dago Mary's is perched between the city's 1,400 Bayview acres slated for redevelopment and the Navy's cleanup operations on Parcel B, one of six Hunters Point Naval Shipyard sites that will also go municipal someday. From here, there's a bird's-eye view of the mounds of "clean" and "dirty" earth - the old adage "a little dirt never hurt" comes to mind as dust swirls in the evening breeze and little particles land in my beer foam.
The SFBG calls this locale "Third Street," but what they're really talking is Bayview-Hunters Point Shipyard, my hood. They say it's one of the six "Best of the Bay" neighborhoods. I like my nabe, but "best?" Let's get a Safeway in there first, okay?