Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
Why The Shoreditch Tech Migration Has Gone In The Opposite Direction From What The Property Press Predicted
The 2022 forecasts had Shoreditch tech firms decamping to King’s Cross and the new Stratford developments. The actual migration pattern has been substantially different, with…
The Tech Cluster That Ate Old Street and What the Workers Inside It Think About That
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Silicon Roundabout, the Startups That Moved In, and Whether the Neighbourhood and the Industry Have Anything to Say to Each Other The…
The Last Surviving Shoreditch Character: An Oral History in Three Pubs and a Pie Shop
Cyndi Himmelstiere Talks to the People Who Were Here Before the Exposed Brick and Asks What They Actually Think About What Happened The people who…
Shoreditch Has Eaten Itself and the Meal Was Surprisingly Expensive
Cyndi Himmelstiere on What Happened to the Most Interesting Square Mile in London and Whether Anything Interesting Replaced It I moved to Shoreditch in 2009…
The Shoreditch Mural That Lasted Three Weeks Before Being Painted Over by a Luxury Development’s PR Team
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Street Art, Permission Culture, and the Specific Relationship Between Property Development and Artistic Expression There was a mural on the hoarding outside…
Brick Lane on a Sunday: A Love Letter With Reservations
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the Market That Is Both Genuinely Great and Genuinely Complicated and Why Both Things Are True at Once Brick Lane on a…
On the Mural at the End of Hoxton Square, and the Strange Local Politics of a Wall That Will Not Be Painted Over
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the survival of one piece of street art across fifteen years of relentless redecoration, the building owner who refuses to remove it,…
On the Old Spitalfields Market, and the Quiet Question of Whether the Rebuild Has Made It Better or Just More Expensive
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the substantial transformation of the East End market, the trade-offs of regeneration, and the small lessons of what has and has not…
On the Quiet Migration of the Tech Bros from Old Street to King’s Cross, and What Shoreditch Has Become Since They Left
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the changing demographic of the Old Street roundabout, the substantial corporate gravity of the King’s Cross redevelopment, and what is, in the…
The Brick Lane Bagel Wars Continue, and the Twenty-Four-Hour Salt Beef Question Remains, As Ever, Unsettled
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the rivalry that defines Shoreditch midnight, the geography of the bagel queue, and what it means that one of them is now,…
