This week, The Standard polled readers about a mystery neighborhood at the center of San Francisco. Situated on Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue, this no-man’s-land is where Hayes Valley, Civic Center, Mid-Market, SoMa, the Mission, and the Lower Haight converge. Some people call it the Hub or, following a recent push from real estate reps, Lower Hayes.
We asked what the neighborhood should be called, and more than 400 readers answered. Spoiler alert: There was no clear winner. Of the options given, 21% of respondents said they call this cleaver-shaped section of town Mid-Market, while 18% went with Lower Hayes. With just under 3% each, the Mission and the Lower Haight were the least popular choices.
The most popular option was “something else,” which netted almost 100 responses — some of them quite clever. Many referenced the neighborhood’s roughly triangular shape, like Otis Triangle, the Slice, the Tangle in the Angle, and TriBeMa, short for “Triangle Below Market.”…