Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is the Crouchendification of Harringay a good thing?
The new Green Lanes bars and cafes opening between Pemberton Road and Effingham Road are beginning to show a clear trend...
New trendy Polish restaurant about to open next to Yasar Halim
Brouhaha doing great guns next door
Passion Cafe with a great new Chef (old Carpet Shop)
New American style Bar and Burger place on the corner (old Obergine) about to open
The inimitable 'Blend' cafe further up
Jam in a Jar bar, food and music venue - now well established
and probably others I've missed...
Next it'll be a delicatessen and a Waitrose....
No complaints provided we don't replace the Mediterranean buzz of Green Lanes with a scene that aspires to Crouch End (& priced accordingly)!
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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I'm confused, what's wrong with Crouch end exactly ?
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Permalink Reply by RussellV on
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Nothing at all! - it's whether we want Harringay to become like it (or not...)
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For those of us that live in constant fear of our landlord noticing and hiking up our prices and being forced to move out of the area, no. Homeowners may feel differently...
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Permalink Reply by Felicitá on
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^ Completely agree. Rent prices are extortionate now (don't get me started on letting agent "fees") and only creeping higher... Quite worried we will soon be priced out of the area.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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I've been priced out similarly in 3 previous moves within N19, N8 and N4. It's only a matter of time before it happens again.
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I vote for a LIDL, instead of another damned 5-bay "Mediterranean" caravanserai or a Waitrose.
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'I prefer the urban buzz of Green Lanes, whilst others may prefer the quieter village feel of Couch End...! ' - What is crouchendification ?
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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Crouchendification (n): 1 Becoming more precious, self-conscious, trendy, white, and (esp) middle-class; 2 developing into somewhere where people want to be because of how they perceive they will be perceived by others if they live there.
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine on
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Crouchendification - Good definition HarringayBirder. Great new word. Should be in the OED.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Green Lanes-Harringay, the ladder roads, and the roads on the other side like mine, will never be like Crouch End. CE is the way it is exactly because it has poor public transport links, so is increasingly inaccessible by the poor. We are the opposite. However, that said, you are correct that gentrification is no longer creeping up on us, but is approaching at the speed of a bullet train. This is an inevitable process of what is happening generally in London, driven by a stubborn unwillingness of successive governments to build enough genuinely affordable housing, or to reform the private rental market, plus the influence of the "international rich" (read Russian gangsters and dictators from all over the globe) investing money in London property, parking it here as a safe investment, driving up property prices at 10% or more a year. It happened in Crouch End 30 years ago (when we used to joke that CE was full of all the therapists who could no longer afford to live in Hampstead), it's happened in Stoke Newington, it is happening all over what used to be down-and-out, dirt poor Hackney, and now it is spreading even into riot-torn South Tottenham. Haringey Council's corrupt, dictatorial leaders (stand up Klaire Kober and your Kabal, the new KKK) are happy to see this, as driving up property values means more council tax, higher business rates, and more money flowing into the council coffers, so more money in their slush funds for them. They have increased the hold of their loyal flunkies by parachuting in local councillors (who, shame on the electorate) still get elected (you could nominate a corpse in this ward, put a "Labour" label on it, and it would be elected) and driving out anyone who has a shred of regard for ordinary, working people. Welcome to the brave new world of late-stage capitalism in London, folks. I speak as a Labour Party member, and unashamedly "old Labour".
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By the way, the only people who would describe Crouch End as a "village" are people who have never lived in a real village. It is a yuppy ghetto. Come friendly bomb and drop on Crouch End, as Sir John Betjeman said of Slough.
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