What the East London Line extension meant for Shoreditch’s connections to the rest of London, what the Peckham and Dalston connections specifically changed, and why the Overground is the most practically useful public transport addition to inner London in a generation
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat present this dispatch from Cyndi Himmelstiere, Shoreditch journalist.
Shoreditch High Street station opened in 2010, giving an area previously unserved by rail its first direct connection. The East London Line extension did not transform Shoreditch in the way rail connections sometimes transform areas — the station opened into an area already intensely used and expensive — but it changed specific journeys that mattered. The Peckham connection, now approximately 35 minutes via the Overground, produced a South-to-North London creative commute that did not exist before 2010 and that has influenced where practitioners in the creative economy choose to live relative to where studios and offices are concentrated. The Dalston and Haggerston connections made the northern creative corridor accessible without requiring a bus or a long walk. The Overground is the most practically useful public transport addition to inner London since the Jubilee Line extension. Shoreditch High Street station is one of the reasons. The network effect of the orbital connections it enabled reaches well beyond the station’s immediate catchment. Bohiney and The London Prat commute across the network.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
Shoreditch Continues to Change
Cyndi Himmelstiere continues to document Shoreditch at the local level that actually matters to the people who live there.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. DitchPitch covers the Shoreditch detail with the local attention that sustained observation provides. The neighbourhood continues to transform. The documentation continues to record it. Both are ongoing and neither is finished.
The neighbourhood continues to be documented. The documentation continues to accumulate. Both are ongoing. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the wider frame that makes the local documentation legible beyond its immediate context. The local detail makes the wider frame real rather than abstract. Both are necessary. Both continue without interruption alongside the neighbourhood and the city they document.
Further reading at Londonist.
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