Hackney calling

That's actually quite funny that it is, Joe. C'mon.

Oh hai btw.

Hehehe, I know... Hiya!

They missed New Cross, Deptford & Brockley mind. It's fucking chock full of hipsters.

Ah, the Goldsmithsonians? Dunno what it's like now, but when I was there in't mid-90s, it was quite possibly the perfect storm of quite rough, cheap, edgy etc, all the things 'kin students love. Loads of huge properties which were dirt cheap if you got a group of mates together to rent out (I remember one massive 8-bed town house near Greenwich going for £600 a month all in). Loads of cheap offies and kebab shops. Several pubs and clubs which woon't have survived without 'kin students.

Brockley though, as I remember, was strangely bereft of pubs. I mean, there weren't any. None. Weird.

I remember going to a house part around 2005 in either Brockley or Camberwell, and all the rooms were massive, and the host bragging that they were only paying £200 a month all in per room. Pretty awesome, the consensus was, Living south of the river can go >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hackney FTW.

Hackney > everywhere else :)

proof: its got its own forum!!

http://www.yeahhackney.com/

(which could maybe do with a Microcosm-tech-makeover)

Blow-ins >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I remember going to a house part around 2005 in either Brockley or Camberwell, and all the rooms were massive, and the host bragging that they were only paying £200 a month all in per room. Pretty awesome, the consensus was, Living south of the river can go >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Massive" isn't the adjective I'd chose after being in your typical art students rented accommodation in Berlin, Prague or Lodz.

hackney is a playful place if you want to play
http://www.hackney.gov.uk/play-streets.htm#.UgAjgxzxYrg

Ah, the Goldsmithsonians? Dunno what it's like now, but when I was there in't mid-90s, it was quite possibly the perfect storm of quite rough, cheap, edgy etc, all the things 'kin students love. Loads of huge properties which were dirt cheap if you got a group of mates together to rent out (I remember one massive 8-bed town house near Greenwich going for £600 a month all in). Loads of cheap offies and kebab shops. Several pubs and clubs which woon't have survived without 'kin students.

Brockley though, as I remember, was strangely bereft of pubs. I mean, there weren't any. None. Weird.

I guess it's because of a combination of the people the houses were built for, and the moral atmosphere around the time they were built: the merchant classes and businessmen of Deptford river-bourne trade and warehousing; the Temperence movement were influential in seeing to it that new streets and whole new areas could be built with covenants that required avoidance of the building of gin palaces or beer rooms. There's a mid-late victorian merchant zone in Hull known as The Avenues that has no pubs too.

Having said all that Tyrwitt road has a large mid Victorian boozer just off Loampit Vale, and Upper Brockley Road too.

lcc.org.uk/articles/hackney-move-by-bike-counter-hits-14-598-by-9am-on-day-four

I am enjoying it so far. I think it's fair to say all 4 of us are, and we were not hackneyans before.
t's all about dalston..

hackney is a playful place if you want to play
http://www.hackney.gov.uk/play-streets.htm#.UgAjgxzxYrg

do enjoy initiatives such as Tudor Road (barrier ensuring its pretty motor traffic free - so an enjoyable cycle route); Goldsmith's Row (street changed to a cycle-way); keep 'em coming!

gonna check out the cycle counter soon..

Hopefully this will be happening to the Cat & Mutton bridge soon...

Hopefully this will be happening to the Cat & Mutton bridge soon...

that's quite a thoroughfare though, no?!

how will the taxis drop off the Broadway Market tourists?!!

Still think Dalston should be bulldozered into the Thames

Still think Dalston should be bulldozered into the Thames

So do the drive to work day people:
http://drivetoworkday.org/2013/10/09/hackney-london-the-worst-place-to-drive/

Hackney Council wins an award for Bike the Borough
This from a Hackney officer:

On Thursday night in Birmingham, Bike Around the Borough won the 2013 Modeshift Award for Best Cycling Initiative. This is terrific recognition for a great event. The awards are decided by vote by the Modeshift members, which include representatives from most Local Authorities in the country, regional transport authorities (TfL and Transport for Greater Manchester) and other sustainable transport organisations such as Sustrans and Living Streets making it sort of like the People's Choice awards for Sustainable Transport.

Bike Around the Borough was especially commended for its strong partnership work between the Council, the Met Police, CTUK and of course, the schools.

Excellent. Children in the schools where we work constantly ask about it and I know everyone involved loves doing it.

Bike Around the Borough is awesome. Now being done by Southwark, too, I think.

A well-deserved award.

http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/9-new-things-hackneys-transport-boss-told-interviewed-cycling/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LondonCyclist+%28London+Cyclist%29

Wow! ^

Well done. The man knows what he is doing.