Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Writing on the Wall for Fairline
Today's planning applications list shows an application for the use of this triple shop premises as A3 (Restaurant). So it seems that what the owner told me a few weeks back may not have been the whole truth.
I'm told that the application is being submitted by an operator who is already running a restaurant elsewhere in North London. The plans are for it to be another Turkish / Kurdish operation.
The traders I've spoken to seem split on whether another Turkish restaurant is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Shame, I like Fairline and do quite a bit of shopping there. If there's demand for another Turkish restaurant then so be it. I'd rather have a full and busy Turkish than a struggling Gordon Blue restaurant just to appease the CEW.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Er, pardon my stupidity, but who is or are "the CEW"?
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Oh, thanks, you mean, people living on the Ladder or the Gardens or, God help us, even humble folk like me in Woodlands Park, who want the 'hood to be as trendy as dear old Crouchie, with concomitant property values? Is a "Gordon Blue" restaurant like a cross between a "cordon bleu" restaurant and a "Gordon Ramsey" restaurant? We certainly don't want those, because they'd bring entirely the wrong kind of person into the area....
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Gordon Blue is just commoners speak for cordon bleu.
I only noticed the other say at the snippet at the top of HOL front page:
"The online home of all things Harringay (you may say Harringay Green Lanes) with a good mix of Hornsey and Crouch End"Why not Woodlands Park, St Annes Road, South Tottenham? Very west Haringey-centric?
Sorry to go off topic!
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Permalink Reply by Liza on
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Agree birdy. Think it used even to say west green there. Lots of woodlands park and st Ann's is in harringay anyway, so maybe that's why. But I've been wondering why west green got dropped off . It's much nearer harringay than crouch end is.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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All I can say Christopher is that I have done my best informally to get to the bottom of these stories of protection rackets on Green Lanes. Whilst the story I get is not universal, most people in a position to know tell me that there is nothing of this sort any more. Donations are requested for the sale of Kurdish newspapers, but from what I can gather these are genuine donations - perhaps with some social obligation, but nothing more than you'd feel if the vicar asked for donations for the church roof.
So, I've asked a lot of questions and that's what I've found out. I haven't done or sought to do any investigative reporting on the issue and I could have been misled, but my sense is that I have a good enough measure of it - but, ultimately who knows.
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Hah! The church roof! As we all know, the Roman Catholic Church is the biggest protection racket in the history of mankind. Did you read that the Pope is now selling indulgences in return for following him on Twitter? That reduces your time in Purgatory, I think.
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Permalink Reply by LSquared on
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Reading the Pope's tweets sounds like purgatory to me anyway
Maybe it's like being remanded in custody - if you get convicted and sentenced they knock off the time you've already done
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Pope Francis has just asked me to let you know, Christopher, that with over 2 billion followers he has no need yet to sell indulgences. He claims only 2,717,096 on Twitter so that sensitive souls like Fry may not be jealous. He suspects a certain anti-Argie sentiment in your post and assures you he has no immediate interest in Fairline.
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Amazing, in just 11 years, the likes of this have vanished?
http://m.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/17/drugsandalcohol.ukcrime1
Must be that the heroin and protection trade is scared witless by the rise in house prices and influx of CEWs, to coin Birdy's acronym ;)
Yea, right! I seem to remember Green Lanes being virtually untouched by the riots a few years back. Shop keepers armed with "clubs, bats and choppers"; more like a benefit to unaware locals of the protection rackets I would surmise!
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