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Make Shift offers local enterprises new spaces at their latest project, Hackney Bridge

By Advertising Feature | Tuesday 19 May 2020 at 12:01

Open now for applications, Hackney Bridge is the latest project by Make Shift, the team behind Pop Brixton and Peckham Levels

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Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 10:28

Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer

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Hackney gardeners spring into action to bring nature’s tranquillity to the city

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 20 April 2018 at 20:07
Fresh from starring in Gardeners' world, we have some shots of Mike Spezzano's 'exotic Dalston oasis'. Photographs: Mike Spezzano

From a tropical backyard hideaway featured on tonight’s Gardeners’ World to community-run vegetable patches, Hackney residents are showing off their green fingers in the spring sunshine

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London Lane: a beautiful selection of one, two, three & four bedroom homes in the heart of Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 April 2018 at 14:28

Advertising feature: this new set of abodes close to London Fields let you make your home in one of London’s most ideal spots

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Upper 43: a stunning new development of seventeen private 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments in Upper Clapton

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 4 December 2017 at 14:40

Available from February 2018 | Liverpool Street in 13 minutes | all homes with private balcony or terrace

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Wandsworth Sash Windows: redesigning entire properties, not just windows

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 4 September 2017 at 12:03

When calling in the window experts these clients were not expecting the complete transformation of their home

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Basket case: wicker balcony designer ‘speechless’ after award nod

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 7 August 2017 at 12:28
Basket case: a supine look at Barrett’s Grove's eye-catching balconies. Photograph: Tim Soar

‘Fairytale’ building in Stoke Newington nominated for prestigious 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize

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‘I found my East Berlin right here in East London’: Hackney Tours interview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 13:01
“I think anything that brings people together to connect with each other and provokes questions and debate is a good thing”: Simon Cole (far right) with a hardy band of tourists. Photograph: Frank Da Silva

We meet Simon Cole who, as the man behind the ‘alternative experience walks’, knows his Hackney history and the lay of the land locally

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Garden variety: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s plans for their grounds this month

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 10:13
A period of calm: The Geffrye Museum period gardens in summer. Photograph: Mandy Williams

The front and period gardens of Hoxton’s Geffrye Museum will be as busy as ever during next year’s renovation. Ahead of that, we look at what’s happening there this month

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Swift exit: is Hackney Council missing a big opportunity by exiling this most high-flying of birds?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 30 June 2017 at 13:31
Hamish Burnett (far-right) and supporters gathered outside e Star by Hackney Downs pub - which has swift boxes in situ. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Their aerial displays above Hackney’s skies thrill many, but campaigners such as Hamish Burnett are concerned that they will find nowhere to nest in the borough’s increasingly renovated old and new buildings, as he explains in this comment piece

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Broadway Market’s most enigmatic furniture shop: we talk to the shopkeeper/owner of Broadway Retro

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 29 June 2017 at 12:53
Retro-spectacular: this article is peppered with some of the treasures to be found at Broadway Retro. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Broadway Retro has no web presence, no sign and is “mainly shut” – but a look around and a chat with owner and shopkeeper Sarah Bancroft reveals many a reason to visit, and some fascinating insights into the storied market

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HUMAN Life: the Hackney artist who documented her time living in an abandoned school

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 2 June 2017 at 15:39
Home time: Downsview School when it was home of the Guardians. All photographs: Enter HUMAN

Downsview School in Hackney Downs has been demolished. Photographer/producer Enter HUMAN documented her time spent living there

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Young Ideal-ists: Capel Manor student grabs gold in gardening contest

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 10:42
Horticultural flair: the winning gardeners

A student from Capel Manor College has won big in the Ideal Home Show’s Young Gardeners of the Year competition

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Kings Group interview: the borough is the bee’s knees

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 12:34
Karl Knipe. Photograph: Kings Group.

In the second of our features on estate agents in the borough, we talk to co-founder Karl Knipe on buying and renting in a tough market

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