Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
In Praise of the Flower Market: The One Sunday Ritual Shoreditch Hasn’t Ruined
Amid the churn and the cool and the relentless transformation, Columbia Road on a Sunday morning remains, against all odds, simply lovely I have spent…
The Shoreditch Paradox: How a Neighbourhood Becomes Cool by Pretending It Doesn’t Care
An anatomy of the most self-conscious square mile in Britain, where authenticity is the most carefully manufactured product of all I write about Shoreditch for…
The Last of the Old East End: What Gentrification Erases When It Polishes a Place
Behind the cereal cafes and the cocktail bars, an older neighbourhood is quietly vanishing, and someone should write down what was here Writing about Shoreditch…
Death by Pop-Up: The Shoreditch Economy and Its Permanent State of Impermanence
In a neighbourhood where nothing stays open long enough to develop a regular customer, the churn itself has become the business model Covering Shoreditch for…
The Tech Bros Have Landed: When the Startups Discovered the Warehouses
The arrival of the technology industry has remade Shoreditch a second time, and the relationship between the coders and the creatives is its own quiet…
The Best Street in Shoreditch Is the One You Have Not Found Yet
On the pleasure of the unscripted walk, the side street that opens into something unexpected, and the city as a practice of attention Bohiney Magazine…
The Shoreditch Art Scene Got Priced Out And The Scaffolding Is Still Up
On murals, studios, and the quiet disappearance of the thing that made everyone want to move here Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat — Cyndi…
Columbia Road on a Sunday: Thirty Minutes of Beauty Worth the Hour of Crowds
On the flower market, the shouting vendors, and the particular pleasure of buying something living from a person who grew it Bohiney Magazine and The…
The Shoreditch House Question: Neighbourhood or Expensive Enclave?
On members clubs, who they include, who they exclude, and the complicated role they play in a neighbourhood that built its identity on openness Bohiney…
Brick Lane Sunday: What the Market Reveals About a Street That Contains Everything
On the bagels, the curry houses, the vintage shops, and the long history of a road that has absorbed every wave of arrival Bohiney Magazine…
