{"id":2864,"date":"2010-12-15T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2011-01-08T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T11:38:08","slug":"londons-shoreditch-turns-into-williamsburg-circa-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/londons-shoreditch-turns-into-williamsburg-circa-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"London’s Shoreditch turns into Williamsburg (circa 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Currently\u00a0swarming\u00a0with hipsters,\u00a0estate\u00a0agents, career-seeking graffiti artists, wannabe musicians, website-promoting\u00a0entrepreneurs, record-bag clutching DJs \u00a0and – thankfully – a fair few normal people, is the area of Shoreditch in east London.<\/p>\n

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Disappointingly, the area around Brick Lane has rather unimaginatively turned into a clone of New York’s Lower East Side (circa 2001) and Williamsburg (circa 2005), with the exact same style of graffiti and street artwork, curiously devoid of\u00a0\u00a0any kind of political message.<\/p>\n

It’s not just the graffiti either, with vast tracts of the area seemingly populated by the same single speed-bike pedalling, tight trousered, wacky hairstyled hipsters.<\/p>\n

I can see the appeal – the scene was pretty good in Willamsburg five years ago, after all – but it wasn’t long before the area became completely gentrified, with all the interesting traditional cafes and shops forced out by grossly inflated rents and rich kid rentals.<\/p>\n

I don’t hold out much hope for the traditional businesses in the area here.<\/p>\n

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Some ‘professional’ Eine graffiti can be seen on Ebor Street, W1.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama was presented with a paintin<\/a>g by Eine, Twenty First Century City, as an official gift from the British Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010. \u00a0And you really can’t get much more street than that.<\/p>\n

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The real star of the area is not the trendy bars or high priced fashion shops, but the long serving 24 hour Beigel Bakery on Brick Lane.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope the yups keep their clawing hands off this East End tradition.<\/p>\n

[Loads more photos here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

[Join in with the discussion on our busy boards<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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