Et oui car dans San Francisco, chaque quartier est un véritable village , alors on vous fait découvrir le notre ; tout est assez transparent ici , alors vous allez savoir la couleur de peau de nos voisins , pour qui ils votent, ce qu'ils font dans la vie, combien nous sommes à vivre dans le quartier, et pour ceux qui liront jusqu'au bout et entre les lignes , des infos encore plus confidentielles ( même si je n'ai pas tout mis)...
Et c'est donc l'une des communautés à laquelle appartenons maintenant car contrairement à ce qu'on croit en France , les américains sont beaucoup moins individualistes que ce que nous pensons, et ils vivent beaucoup en communauté mais avec une notion differente de celle que nous pouvons connaître en France (mais nous ferons à l'occasion d'un futur message un descriptif de la notion de communauté : une des différences majeure entre les sociétés américaine et française ( Sorry la suite en anglais dans le texte ):
Noe Valley is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California. Its borders are generally considered to be roughly 21st Street to the north, 30th Street to the south, Dolores Street to the east, and Grand View Avenue to the west. These borders are understood to be somewhat flexible, particularly by real estate agents. The Castro (Eureka Valley) is directly to Noe Valley's north, although the border is not well defined and can stretch into Noe Valley, and The Mission is to its east. The southern part of Church Street has been referred to as "Pierre Valley" to distinguish it from surrounding areas, but the origin of this name is uncertain.
Like many other San Francisco neighborhoods, Noe Valley started out as a working-class neighborhood for employees and their families in San Francisco's once-thriving blue-collar economy. Also like other San Francisco neighborhoods, Noe Valley has since undergone successive waves of gentrification and is now considered an upscale, yuppie area. It is home to many urban professionals, particularly young couples with young children.
[edit] History
The neighborhood is named after José de Jesús Noé, the last Mexican alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena (present day San Francisco).
Noe Valley was primarily built up at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in the years just after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. As a result, the neighborhood contains many examples of the "classic" Victorian and Edwardian residential architecture for which San Francisco is famous. Noe Valley being a working-class neighborhood, houses were built in rows, with some of the efficient, low-cost row houses being more ornate than others, depending on the owner's taste and finances. Today, Noe Valley has the highest concentration of row houses in San Francisco,[citation needed] with streets having three to four and sometimes as many as a dozen on the same side of the same street. However, few facades in such rows of houses remain unchanged since their creation in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Many Noe Valley streets were laid out and named by John Meirs Horner, who named Elizabeth Street after his wife and Jersey Street after the state where he was born. Most of Noe Valley is still called Horner's Addition for tax purposes by the city assessor's office.
One notable Noe Valley landmark is St. Paul's Catholic Church, featured in the movie Sister Act.
Une vue qui date de 1903 à l'angle de notre rue ...
Geography
24th and Castro
A purple house at 21st and Douglass Sts.The topographic layout is actually two main valleys. One flows from the Clipper/22nd/Grandview area down 24th/Jersey to Church, and the other flows from the 27th/Diamond/30th area down Day to Church where it meets the first valley; the conjoined valleys then both exit the Noe Valley district. This makes the hilly area relatively dry, and the soil stable regarding earthquake liquefaction. Most houses up the hills sit directly on bed rock as can be seen at Douglass Park (bare red rock - radiolarian chert). Traffic flow is limited - one main North access through Castro Street to Eureka Valley, one main West access up Clipper Street toward the former Twin Peaks toll plaza and West of the city, several East access to Mission through 24th, Cesar Chavez and other numbered streets, and the main North-South Church Street access used by the J Church Muni Light Rail.
The neighborhood is primarily residential, although there are two bustling commercial strips. The first along Church Street, between 24th Street and 30th Street and the other along 24th Street, between Church Street and Castro Street.
Des vieilles photos de deux quartiers qui nous entourent : au nord Castro, =====> <==== à l'est Mission
Demographics
In November 2000, the Noe Valley Voice reported the following statistics for the neighborhood, citing a 1999 poll of registered voters by David Binder Research, a prominent local polling agency. [2] [3]
European American: 80%
Age 30-49: 53%
Female: 51%
Sexually straight: 71%
Rent housing (vs. own): 52%
College graduate: 78%
Democrat: 72%
Republican: 11%
Religious affiliation: 63%
Not religious: 38%
