Category: News
Boxpark Shoreditch Has Been Saved, Closed, And Saved Again So Many Times I’ve Genuinely Lost Count, And That Says Something About This Neighbourhood
London’s original pop-up mall keeps getting reprieved on short-term leases, and its entire on-again-off-again saga has become its own strange Shoreditch institution A Venue That…
Twenty Years Of Staring Up At Those Graffitied Tube Carriages, And I Can Finally Go Inside One With A Drink In Hand
Village Underground’s famously gawped-at rooftop trains have opened to the public at last, and the wait was somehow worth it The Most Photographed Thing In…
Duck Pin Bowling Has Arrived On Old Street, Because Of Course It Has
Roxy Ball Room’s second London site brings a genuinely unusual sport to Shoreditch’s already crowded competitive socialising scene, and it has to actually earn its…
Hackney’s Fifteen Year Plan For Shoreditch Just Went Out For Consultation, And Most Residents I Spoke To Had No Idea
The Future Shoreditch Area Action Plan will shape this neighbourhood for a generation, quietly A Fifteen Year Blueprint Moving Through Consultation Largely Unnoticed By Cyndi…
Shoreditch Works Hit A Genuine Snag When The Developer Claimed It Could Not Afford Its Own Affordable Housing Quota
Hackney’s independent consultants disagreed, and the decision got pushed back while everyone argued about the maths A Scheme’s Progress Stalls Over A Disputed Spreadsheet By…
Shoreditch Design Week Returns This September With Bacteria Grown Materials And A Genuinely Local Lineup
Over a hundred showrooms and a new cohort called Voices of Shoreditch anchor this year’s programme A Design Festival Leaning Harder Into Its Own Neighbourhood…
The Goodsyard’s Nine Hundred Million Pound Regeneration Sits Right Next To Boxpark, And It Dwarfs Everything Else In The Area
Seven Wembley pitches of derelict railway land are finally getting their long-promised transformation A Derelict Site Finally Living Up To Its Scale By Cyndi Himmelstiere….
Independent Shoreditch Has Quietly Become The Neighbourhood’s Most Useful Business Support Network
A local enterprise built specifically to strengthen small traders deserves more recognition than it gets A Support Network Working Quietly In The Background By Cyndi…
The Common Press Made The Cut For Best Bookshop In Britain, And Shoreditch Should Be Shouting About It
Our own queer intersectional bookseller is going toe to toe with the whole country’s finest indies A Shortlist Shoreditch Genuinely Earned By Cyndi Himmelstiere. The…
Shoreditch Works Just Cleared Committee, And Thirty Five Percent Affordable Housing Deserves A Proper Read
Hackney Council’s decision on the 1.4 hectare scheme will shape this corner of the neighbourhood for decades A Development Big Enough To Actually Matter By…
