Hackney Downs - Hackney Citizen (Page 2)

Banner Repeater, Hackney’s train platform art gallery, to celebrate new deal with fundraising party

The former shop at Hackney Downs station has inked an agreement with Arriva and TfL that secures its existence until 2020 at least

Author: Hackney Citizen

Sending a signal: Banner Repeater Art Space at Hackney Downs Station. Photograph: Pink Water/Clunie Reid

Clockwork orange: Councillor’s tangerine purchase thwarted by ‘misunderstanding’ over £1 coin

Sainsbury’s apologises after a shop assistant rejects Cllr Desmond’s legal tender – hours before the currency switchover

Author: Hackney Citizen

Clockwork orange: Councillor’s tangerine purchase thwarted by ‘misunderstanding’ over £1 coin

Letter – Hackney Community Gardeners on the many virtues of Hackney Downs Park

“We know that it is only by working together with the Council and other community groups…that the many exciting ideas generated by nearly two years of consultation can be realised.”

Author: Hackney Citizen

Garden state: Hackney Community Gardeners are proposing to rejuvenate Hackney Downs Park. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Hackney Playbus children’s charity hits £25,000 target for new double-decker

The playground-on-wheels replaces ‘Bugsie’, their previous bus that had to be junked

Author: Hackney Citizen

Wheels on fire: the new crowdfunded Playbus. Photograph: Hackney Playbus

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Home time: Downsview School when it was home of the Guardians. All photographs: Enter HUMAN

Grass roots: the local gardening group with big plans for Hackney Downs

Overgrown bowling green could be jettisoned for a host of new features if Hackney Community Gardeners get their way

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council’s anti-crime chief Caroline Selman joins police on weapons sweep following spate of stabbings

Cracking down on knife crime remains ‘massive priority’, she insists amid alarm about attacks and concern over changes to police use of stop and search

Author: Hackney Citizen

Polls, hellos and goodbyes: My, haven’t the past 12 months flown by!

Is it really nearly January again? Time for a quick recap of the year when Philip Glanville replaced Jules Pipe in Hackney’s top job, Sadiq triumphed and Brexit was the buzzword – in spite of Hackney’s best efforts

Author: Hackney Citizen

Once more unto the polls... In 2016 we voted often

Police officer injured after car he was pursuing was driven into him near Hackney Downs

Incident happened over the weekend but details have only just been revealed by Scotland Yard

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dog dies after eating ‘poisoned’ bread on Hackney Downs

Pet is one of three animals believed to have consumed the food, thought to have been laced with rat poison

Author: Hackney Citizen

A man walking a dog on Hackney Downs today. The council has said people should be vigilant after a string of apparent poisoni

Save Haggerston Park group fights council over community garden “land grab” plan

Hackney Council “unable to provide assurance” that parkland will be reintegrated after use as temporary school site

Author: Hackney Citizen

The disputed depot area of Haggerston Park. Photograph: Josh Loeb

Project inspired by Obama’s favourite ‘cradle to career’ scheme marks first anniversary

A lot has changed on the Pembury Estate in the years since the 2011 riots, writes Tara Joshi

Author: Hackney Citizen

Children taking part in literacy project