London Video Tour: The East End

In this video tour, New York Habitat (www.nyhabitat.com) explores London's developing East End!
On the tour, David Hill will stop by some of the most popular and iconic neighborhoods and streets in London’s East End, including Shoreditch, Hoxton, Spitalfields, and the Spitalfields market. All of these neighborhoods comprise the greater East End, and overlap with equally popular Hackney. Find out more about Hackney in our blog (www.nyhabitat....! Home to artists, rebels, and young professionals, there truly is a place for everyone in this diverse, eclectic neighborhood. Once a shipping and industrial center, recent decades of prosperity have transformed London’s East End into one of the best-kept secrets in town!
Find this dynamic neighborhood between Bishopsgate in the west and the River Lea in the east, as well as the River Thames to the south and Regent’s Canal to the north. You can find our other London apartments here (www.nyhabitat.....
Shoreditch
Once a working class neighborhood, this section of town has blossomed in recent decades into a hip and trendy spot for young professionals. Yet architectural elements still linger from Shoreditch’s days as a dockyard, silk center, and furniture hub. You can see some examples of this in our long-term rentals in London (www.nyhabitat..... In fact, Shoreditch has been a home to artists for centuries, and was the location of the first playhouse built in England. The popup shops of Boxpark Shoreditch are especially famous, so be sure to check them out.
Hoxton
Synonymous with theaters and music halls, the neighborhood of Hoxton is known by locals as a great alternative to the theater districts in the West End. Its roots in the area are ancient, as even the Romans once traversed Ermine Street. Today it’s known for its loft conversions and fabulous entertainment hotspots. It’s a great place to look into if you’re thinking of renting an apartment in London. (www.nyhabitat....)
Brick Lane
Stretching from Swanfield Street to Whitechapel High Street, Brick Lane is famous for its Bangladeshi cuisine and avant-garde art. Local curry houses are famous for their spicy and delicious fare, while the streets serve as a showcase for professional and student art.
Spitalfields
Made famous as Jack the Ripper’s hunting ground, Spitalfields has evolved from a hotbed of crime to a thriving and diverse community of locals. Spitalfields market is a great place to pick up inexpensive vintage goods while St. Catharine’s docks have been recently transformed into a modern marina and crisp housing development. It's a great place to find a short-term vacation rental apartment. (www.nyhabitat....) You certainly can’t beat the view, since the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London are but steps away.
We hope you've enjoyed this tour of London's East End neighborhood! Don't forget to check out our blog for more information about the area: www.nyhabitat....
Did we miss any of your favorite spots? Let us know in the comments below!

[@NewYorkHabitat]

Take a video tour of one of the best kept secret areas of #London ; the #EastEnd ! Learn more from our blog article: bit.ly/1spI3Mv

[@millerswell]

The REAL "East End" of London actually extends a lot further east than is suggested in the video ... and covers the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering - although whether the last three boroughs can really classed as part of East London or as part of Essex has always been a bit unclear, as they don't have London "E" postal codes!

[@lovepeace4065]

Spot on and the real east end has to be Stepney and Jamaica Street for me. Born and bred there 🙏🙏

[@NubianPrince85]

Exactly was going to say

[@Chingfordassociates]

I like Bethnal Green because I grew up there. Going to the Approach Tavern and have a walk around Victoria Park is nice. There aren’t many of the old pubs left but the Marquis of Cornwallis is still there. Kelly’s pie and mash and Pelliccis cafe are local institutions. Globe town is good and it has some very impressive buildings built by the East End Dwelling Company. Columbia Road Flower Market is good on a Sunday morning. If I was a visitor to London with a short period of time to see stuff I wouldn’t bother with the east end. But if you were here for a longer period of time then I’d recommend it.

[@robj8201]

NOT my east end....West Ham born and bred....only memories now....and he didn't mention the regular stabbings and shootings...that'll pull the punters in....😡

[@Maelli535]

RIP, childhood culture, memories and friends. Driven out by the likes of Shamima Begum - such "worthwhile" people.

[@Jeanie438]

I was also born in Hackney. came to AUST with parents in 1948. I'm now 85 yrs. lost all family ..lived in shrubland road all I have are memories. .. Jeanie. T.

[@tracyforbes8616]

A hipster view of the east end conveniently missing off the majority of the area which is grim social housing estates in an area dogged with poverty and crime.

[@stevenkaye7958]

East End R I P

[@brokenbritain1930]

Steven Kaye innit 😭

[@_______unknown_______]

I mean u can go Essex

[@LivingWalks]

How enjoyable and informative. We make hires gopro walk through's of contemporary London on youtube and it's great for us to see other peoples. London is pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.

[@NewYorkHabitat]

Thank you for your interest and subscription! We would love to check out your videos as well!

[@jamesbyrne9312]

Great video, lots of nice suggestions, I moved to east end during COVID but now want to explore it more.

[@NewYorkHabitat]

Thank you James. We hope you are enjoying living in London's East End and that you will discover lots of great places while exploring the area!

[@jamesbyrne9312]

@@NewYorkHabitat Me too, thanks a lot.

[@steve3716]

East end died long ago. All muslim now.. not like back in the 70.s when I used to live there.

[@Firusdhf]

They threw out the cockneys

[@brokenbritain1930]

Technically the east end has moved to Newham and East Ham, barking, Dagenham u kno the areas that aren’t gentrified and boring. I beg bring back tower hamlets it used to be rough and that, no one used to fuck with the ppl from tower hamlets now all that’s gone I’m honestly embarrassed to call it home

[@brownyeyes83]

God bless london

[@Maelli535]

God save London, God restore London!

[@paulwoodley4024]

Since when has hoxton been in the east end .

[@tabassamkayani]

It’s the River Lea (as in ‘Lee’) not pronounced ‘Leah’!

[@bobwoodgate3836]

I lived in Poplar and was sure I was an Eastender 😎

[@Laura55sere]

I came from Poplar, moved out 45 years ago ( to Essex) this doesn’t depict the Eastend where my friend still lives 98% Bangladesh, Pakistan’s

[@dalm8413]

Teviot use to be ok until the 90s

[@brythonicman3267]

The demise of the East End is a complete tradgedy. A whole rich culture with real characters on every street lost forever. What a sad state of affairs from a Yorkshireman.

[@Tippy257]

It’s not a tragedy they have all moved to Essex and live in big houses , I know because I’ve seen them and they are loaded.

[@brythonicman3267]

@@Tippy257 So the 1.9 million who live in Essex all have big houses, what a ridiculous statement! The demise of any culture is a tragedy. The Cockney's were always enterprising, if they hadn't been forcibly relocated, they would be as well off in modern times.

[@Tippy257]

@@brythonicman3267 ok maybe not all of them. When I was growing up the East End was a dump, and looking at old pics it looks like it has always been a dump. The cockneys are probably not missing the actual place , just the people they knew and the camaraderie they had in their poverty. It’s always sad when a close knit community feel they have lost their culture, language and way of life, I can relate to that. But I really do believe as a community they have evolved ( to some extent) and moved on to something better ( mostly in Essex).

[@Jean42ette]

@@Tippy257 you don't feel poor with good people around, you do feel poor when people you knew move away and the new people are changing the face of your History.

[@toni4729]

It rather amuses me how he called the east end a group of villiages in the nineteeth century. All the building he building he was showing around were older than that. Even the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel was built in 1770 or something. And that was no group of boxes.

[@fasthracing]

He's American

[@samdavid22]

Thanks

[@sjphuntley]

That's not the East End I grew up in, if you're coming to London a think this is the East End prepare yourself for a shock.

[@fasthracing]

Its mostly a shit hole nowadays though with gentrified areas were trendy Hipsters and media types have driven property prices. I doubt you will hear a London let alone a Cockney accent there any more as true Londoner's moved out years ago.

[@filipgrunseich8670]

Hi David.

[@garyknight3979]

The river lee ah ill av a cuppa a tee ah

[@SophiaMystery2]

Do EastEnders record in east end since 2017?

[@NewYorkHabitat]

As far as we know, EastEnders has been recorded at BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, since its inception, even if a new set was more recently built there.

[@ryananthony4840]

You didn't take us by the "knocking shop" at 22 Acacia Avenue...... :-/

[@turnfordguitars]

It's just an advertisement! Pretty poor really. Can't even pronounce the river lea properly!!!

[@george385]

East London goes way further out - as far as Dagenham, then its referred to as "Greater London" and then Essex.

[@brokenbritain1930]

george385 Yh but once u get to Newham it’s all cool and crime ridden and knives and that

[@brainsmith3931]

Most londoners have flocked to Essex for the past 30 years.

[@crazysaffy568]

Jeez if thats the best of the east end, I'd hate to see the shlt parts. I wonder were those 'hotspots' you weren't able to get in because you were were white non muslim lol? hotspots = 'no go areas'

[@deanmadnut2614]

A lot of people think hoxton is north london because it's in between islington and shoreditch

[@akms4979]

dean madnut it's N1 cause it's north!!! N=north god!

[@deanmadnut2614]

Akms. Hoxton is in the London borough of hackney and hackney is north east london but that borough is still class as east end. But yeah I agree hoxton is more of north london than east london

[@akms4979]

dean madnut sorry if I sounded rude

[@abrilmata222]

Tonya comeback it doesn’t look bad

[@ronmosely8355]

that looks friggin creepy! If you think someone would want a vacation rental in that dump, you gotta be nuts!

[@Renata_bi]

Tommy i'm lookin for u

[@abrilmata222]

I was looking for someone from tcoptp

[@bernie2108]

All an ex East-enders needs, (me), is some damn yank telling me about it FFS!

[@Xiber1]

interesting video

[@toni4729]

I'd like to know how you can leave Bow out of the East End. That's daft. A typical bloke from the wrong side of the pond.

[@Maelli535]

Bow. Whitechapel. Stratford. Plaistow. Etc.

[@toni4729]

@@Maelli535 Bethnal Green, Stepney.

[@Maelli535]

@@toni4729 Not to mention Wapping and Shadwell, Poplar, Millwall, Limehouse and, indeed, even though saaf a de wa-er, Bermondsey !

[@toni4729]

@@Maelli535 Wow! You've woken me up now. It's been 50 years sinse I was in East London, in Britain in fact. Thanks.

[@Maelli535]

@@toni4729 For me it's only 40 years since I left UK, although I have dropped in now and and again, even for a couple of matches at good old Upton Park (not a Millwall fan, are you?)!

[@dsparker6706]

you needed to go into Tower hamlets and you'll see the real east end ., this is just the gentrificated area .

[@offtv50Hz]

5 years in London ,never been at brick lane :D

[@booth2710]

26 years in London and NO intention of going anywhere near Brick Lane ..

[@toni4729]

@@booth2710 You don't know what you're missing. If only for the experience. Only sorry the Jews have moved out.

[@booth2710]

@@toni4729 what experience ? Just another london ghetto

[@toni4729]

@@booth2710 How about the smell of curry. Have you no sence of adventure. If I could get there I would go.

[@FinlayEvans]

@@booth2710 Brick Lane is brilliant! Friendly people, brilliant Bangladeshi food and plenty of fun things to do :))

[@clarkkent4595]

Some cottage maybe

[@karate4348]

nothing wrong with the poor or the 'working class'... they are a far cry from the shopaholic buy a life moderns.

[@clarkkent4595]

Cruise the canal there

[@ljc6535]

We come under the East end ...and we are Dagenham ...not a place to do a tour on now days to be honest ..avoid most streets and concentrate on the few green areas we have ..we used to be Essex and I still like to say Essex as that's what we were originally known as.

[@NewYorkHabitat]

It is difficult indeed nowadays to know where the East End and Essex begin, there are many different opinions. That is typical of boundaries that are pushed due the extension of large cities as is the case with Greater London

[@nonsung1]

Shoreditch and Hoxton are not in East London Hoxton is in North London and Shoreditch is EC1 City Brick Lane and St Katherine's Dock are East London I should know because I was born in East London

[@roxysimmons]

Yep - I lived in Lower Clapton.

[@michaelcarlos8686]

This is generally what is considered traditional east end. We all know West Ham or Stratford are east London .

[@IronDiva]

What district do I go to if I want acid thrown in my face? Why does he leave it out?

[@FinlayEvans]

most acid attacks happen within people’s own home and are not random encounters associated with any part of london :))

[@michielblijboom853]

No mentioning of Green Street, Forest Gate, Barking AKA the real East End.

[@MrZohan8]

Bow Boys / Queen Vic / Blind Beggar / Hackney Dredds / the list can go on. Green Street? Barking? Check your nappy you regg. AND if you don't know WTF a reg is then you ain't an East Ender; innnit!!

[@tonybates7870]

That's not the East End, that's east of the East End!

[@Jean42ette]

This is a very limited view to entice the unsuspecting and ignoring the horrors that are now in London as a whole and the East End especially.

[@DanTaurusAtheist56]

You missed canning tan

[@13thpeakcitycg71]

Daniel Welch town*

[@czogg99]

with all the banks, insurance companies and corporations leaving because of BREXIT, most of these properties will become affordable again.

[@nobody-wj2bo]

"far cry" why the hell does he keep repeating that word? its annoying!

[@MrTomomahony]

loose the music

[@jaybennaugustine4815]

This guy obviously doesn't know a lot about London other than its tourism attractions. He mentioned hackney in this video *HACKNEY* But anyway since he sounds new to the UK judging by his accent,I might give him some knowledge about London, hackney is not a tourist attraction unless you wanna see some flats, it is full of crime and gangs Jamaican immigrants who are in gangs and knife crime🔪💀and a bit of gun crime🔫 . Seriously who would wanna go to the west end

[@Djpaul-lo1px]

Have you seen the prices of houses / apartments in hackney / dalston lately? It’s really not the same as it was in the 80’s. Your observations are 30 years out of date.

[@sassycat6487]

Hackney is super expensive. I have stayed there a bunch visiting a friend and I was shocked at how expensive the apartments were. Some were nearly a million $ and even more.

[@brokenbritain1930]

Jaybenn Augustine hackney is deffo a tourist destination, no longer the Rough area that it used to be ur livin in the past fam, as long as ur a civil ur fine in hackney. That murder mentality has moved to Newham and all that

[@keithmilburn4866]

Poplar was my region