‘Stokey’, with their bars, coffee shops and restaurants, stores and independent galleries, was appointed one of the best places to live in London in 2025 by The Sunday Times.
This document is customary to find if people who live and work there. Most did, but one or two had doubts.
Regina Davis, 40, and her daughter Isabella, 14, buy at Whole Foods Market.
Regina, three years old, who moved to the area in 2007, said: “He has become so modern!”
But she can understand why: “There are so many artistic places that you cannot find anywhere else,” he says. “Art galleries, coffee shops, many independent boutiques and a concentration of beautiful streets.”
She said people are “very friendly,” and added: “If you need help, you can make your neighbor pass even if you don’t know them.”
Isabella said: “He is really cozy here and several.
“Sometimes, when the weather is sunny, it really stands out. There are always celebrations. It has a good community, good neighbors’ receipts, it is really pleasant.”
School worker Charlotte Earl said “loves” the area: “There are many coffees, bars and restaurants, but we don’t have the hustle and bustle of other areas in London. He feels like a community.”
Midge Ryail and his friend Tom Kemp had come down from Newcastle to visit their friends.
Midge, a theater director, said: “I love it here. Here are many options: what to eat, what to do, a lot in the past doors. It’s great.”
But she still said that Newcastle was better, and added: “I can’t leave registration and caress it.”
Tom said they had spent the day before in Clissold Park. He said: “It’s very relaxing. When I live in London, near the city, you can feel trapped, but here it has its own identity, it is really pleasant.”
The father of two Barney Mitchell, who works as a builder, was not so interested. He said: “If you are rich, it is a good place to live and if you are not rich, it is a place *** place to live due to housing prices, the lack of housing actions, an unregulated real estate market.
“It’s like a small bubble, like many other places in London.”
He stolen that the area had many independent stores “that people value but find more and more extent”, that there are “a couple of beautiful parks”, and we did not go to Hackney swamps, near where he lives.
But he praised Shakespeare’s adventure courtyard “where the children are going to play, they run risks and will be autonomous.”
He added: “Stoke Newington has a great inheritance and musical culture. One of the best pubs is the Shakespeare, it has a free juke box with real ox music.”
The owner of Camia Cafe, Leyla Aslan, said: “Stoke Newington is a good place to live, but she is a bit overvalued.
“It’s good but it’s changing quickly. The last 16 years I have housed here people are changing, people are moving and since Covid has become really visible.”
The real estate agent Michael Naik, who prepares to celebrate his 40th anniversary in Church Street in May, has seen how the area has changed.
He said: “In 1985, selling three -bedroom properties in the back of my office for £ 43,000. Now they are £ 1.3 million for the same house.
“People sell their property and moved to Edmonton, where they buy a house for £ 500k with £ 700k to spend.”
Carrie and Laura were walking their dog in the cemetery of Abney Park Garden, a Woodland Memorial Park and a nature reserve.
Carrie said: “One of the great things is precisely this cemetery.
“Haringey’s advice had a proposal to prohibit the dogs of the Leads, but was not successful.
“If you turn again, I will leave Stoke Newington.”
Stoke Newington certainly meets Laura’s boxes. She said: “Food, green and weird. If you add cinema and bookstore, we have finished.”
Tim, father of three, who was walking his dog Labrador Brown Lucy, agreed that the dog walk.
He said: “It would be bleak if she had to be in the lead. The freedom that has to run twice a day, otherwise, would run over overweight and mental health problems.”
Tim said he
He said that Stoke Newington is safe, has good restaurants and schools, there are two bakeries, “an independent, a gails”, a tailor to fix zippers, a locksmith, fantastic corner stores and a fire station and a police station “in the Toorstep”.
He added: “You have everything you need at the foot of a few minutes. It is an urban town.
“The way people rub each other is one of the strengths of the area.
“Schools are mixed, inclusive and very successful.”
