Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
The Vintage Market Traders Are the Last People Who Actually Live Here
Cyndi Himmelstiere on a Sunday tradition surviving mostly on the goodwill of stallholders who commute in from somewhere else entirely I asked twelve stallholders at…
The Cereal Cafe Is Gone But Its Ghost Still Sets the Rent
Cyndi Himmelstiere on how one long-closed novelty shop still shapes what a Shoreditch unit costs to lease The cereal cafe that briefly made this neighbourhood…
Every Startup on This Street Has the Same Exposed Brick and Different Runway
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the co-working aesthetic that unites a dozen companies with wildly different odds of surviving the year I can walk into any of…
Shoreditch Has Run Out of Brick Wall to Photograph
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the great exposed brick shortage of our time I want to open with a genuine confession, which is that I have, on…
The Vintage Market Stall That Outlasted Everyone’s Predictions
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Boxpark’s original neighbour and its refusal to leave Everyone I know who has lived near Brick Lane for more than a decade…
Shoreditch Warehouse Parties Have Gone Fully Corporate and Nobody Says So
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the strange afterlife of underground East London nightlife There was, once, a genuinely underground quality to a Shoreditch warehouse party, the kind…
The Shoreditch Startup That Peaked Before It Launched
Cyndi Himmelstiere on office culture, kombucha taps, and the art of looking busy I was invited, some weeks back, to what I was told was…
Shoreditch’s Last Genuinely Cheap Lunch Is Under Threat
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the caff that refuses to charge Shoreditch prices There is a cafe not far from where I am typing this that still…
What the Google Fine Means for Shoreditch’s Startup Scene
A Shoreditch local’s look at how tech regulation touches the neighbourhood’s creative businesses Brussels handed down an eight hundred and ninety million euro fine against…
What the Bricks Speech Means for Shoreditch Studio Rents
A Shoreditch local’s look at housing policy and its reach into creative workspace costs Burnham’s housing speech focused on residential construction this week, but for…
