Posts by Hackney Citizen
DriveNow: your flexible car club in Hackney – try it out with 30 free minutes
Find out how you can drive a BMW or MINI in London by the minute, hour or day. Only pay when you drive with everything included
Read MoreHackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours
Art gallery director Ingrid Swenson and construction industry giant Kath Moore both receive gongs
Read MoreCurtain (almost) up: Work on new Hackney theatre nears completion
86-year-old Tower Theatre Company set to begin season in September
Read MoreArtworks by brain injury survivors to feature in new Hackney Museum show
‘The Mind’s Eye’, a selection of art from Homerton Hospital, opens next week
Read MoreComic – Closing Down / Coming Soon (a Hackney thinking game)
Our artist Francisco de la Mora puts a local spin on the ‘Where’s Wally?’ genre
Read MoreWoman catches Lyme disease from tick bite at Clissold Park, say residents
Hackney Council says only a small percentage of ticks carry the disease but urges people to check themselves after a park outing
Read MoreLincoln Court residents launch petition against council plans to turn play space into housing
Hackney mayor calls the effort a ‘campaign against council housing during a housing crisis’
Read MoreKollier din-Bangura interview: ‘society is not ready for a black guy to be in a gallery or to own a gallery’
We met with the sculptor and longstanding Dalston cultural entrepreneur, for a discussion covering black enterprise, gentrification and the loss of creative communities
Read MoreThe Lido, Libby Page, book review: perfect poolside prose
Two women with a sixty-year age gap bond together to save their local lido, in this feel-good dip into ‘unexpected pockets of genuine community amidst the urban sprawl’
Read MoreLetter – Heathrow expansion plans a ‘sick joke’
London’s Green Party MEP Jean Lambert on the government’s ‘flight of fancy’
Read MoreTitbits – Short stories, Pipe dreams and local Labour’s fraying seams
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Clean Air: Act!
There will be no Grenfell-type cataclysm to trigger action on air pollution
Read MoreHomeless men evicted from Mare Street tents by council enforcement team
Police called as men are forced out for ‘obstructing the highway’
Read MoreResidents of historic Chocolate Studios up in arms over hotel plans
Businesses housed in former sweet factory also ‘anxious about the future’ amid fears over loss of light
Read MoreCelebration to mark 150 years of the arts in Dalston kicks off this weekend
The area’s long association with creatives began in 1868 with the building of the Reeves and Sons factory
Read MorePicnicking on petals: the history of edible flowers in Hackney
“The time has come to brighten up our food with cheerful blossoms,” says our resident food historian Gillian Riley, who this month looks into Hackney’s role in the development of consumable blooms…
Read MoreDevotion – A Portrait of Loretta, by Franklyn Rodgers: review
The large-scale portraits, which include a commissioned photograph of Doreen Lawrence, recognise the significance of close-knit relationships, such as the one between mother and son
Read MoreRoad closures: Council on ‘shaky ground’ after release of William Patten air quality report, say campaigners
Mayor of London’s audit shows toxic air at the primary school breaches legal limits, but Town Hall says figures are ‘not true’
Read MoreHackney Town Hall’s vaults to open to the public for the first time
Visitors will soon be able to delve into the crypt, which now houses a special exhibition about public life
Read MoreThree ‘community champions’ celebrated at Mayor’s Civic Awards
Retired nurse and two local charity workers honoured in Town Hall ceremony
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