New York - Hackney Citizen

‘Secret garden’ for Hoxton Hotel close to final approval

Residents complain of feeling ‘under siege’ from area’s late-night streetscene

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

‘Secret garden’ for Hoxton Hotel close to final approval

Fold, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘A slice of the Big Apple’

A New York-style pizzeria dishing up belly-busting ‘pies’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fold, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘A slice of the Big Apple’

Pretty in Punk: Julia Gorton’s photos of the NYC punk and No Wave scene get an airing in Dalston nightspot

Photographer Julia Gorton was a doyenne of the New York music scene in the late 70s. Some of the images she produced in that period are currently on show at Untitled on Kingsland Road – we went down to check it out

Author: Hackney Citizen

Richard Hell, of The Voidoids and founding member of Television, was one of Gorton's smilier subjects. Photograph: Julia Gort

Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits

A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture

Author: Hackney Citizen

"Nonchalant confidence and pride": Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, L

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

Hackney artist makes Guggenheim YouTube shortlist

999 days: Russell Higgs Urban Barbarian is one of the final 125 selected from 23,000 entries

Author: Hackney Citizen