Incomers are drawn to Walthamstow by increasing numbers of good restaurants and bars and the thriving local market, as well arts events like the weekend-long Walthamstow Garden Party.
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Peckham —
If one thing epitomizes the new Peckham it's Frank's Campari Bar, a hugely popular summer-only venue on the open top floor of a looming 1960s multistory parking lot.
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Playing a parking lot —
The parking lot has also hosted cultural events, like a series of performances by the Multi-Story Orchestra.
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Leyton and Leytonstone —
This is arguably fashionable London in its more mature, thoughtful form -- fewer crowded pubs featuring difficult indie bands, more bakeries and people thinking about schools and commuting routes.
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Olympic overhaul —
Now Leyton High Road, the shopping street, has been regenerated, a project begun to coincide with the 2012 Olympics, based in nearly Stratford
Both Deptford and New Cross have big pockets of significant social deprivation, and are bounded by thundering main roads, but are nonetheless forging reputations as destinations of choice for young arty types
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Brixton —
Brixton epitomizes the fast-changing face of London, in all its good and bad points. Long a hugely deprived center of the London's African-Caribbean community, its witnessed major changes in the past 20 years as the established population has been joined by newcomers, many priced out of more posh nearby areas.
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Brixton Market —
A moribund indoor market specializing in Caribbean food and obscure reggae records was transformed, and is now packed with exotic cafes and restaurants.
