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<div class="neighbouring_postcodes_grid"> || [[Locale Hornsey|Hornsey]] || [[Locale Wood Green|Wood Green]] || Noel Park || || [[Locale Crouch End|Crouch End]] || Harringay || West Green || || [[Locale Stroud Green|Stroud Green]] || [[Locale Finsbury Park|Finsbury Park]] || [[Locale South Tottenham|South Tottenham]] || </div> Harringay is an area of North London, within the London Borough of Haringey. It's centred on a fairly long and busy stretch of a street called Green Lanes. As this [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114664306441918231955.000001135d2f4be1a5fb1 Google map] shows, its shape, a bit like Italy, resembles a boot. The "foot" of the boot, to the south, is occupied by Finsbury Park, with [[Finsbury Park Station]] at the "toe" and [[Manor House Station]] at the "heel". The northern point of the area is roughly [[Turnpike Lane Station]], where Green Lanes becomes Wood Green High Road for a half mile or so. Harringay is neither as universally wealthy as [[Locale Crouch End|Crouch End]] just to its west, nor does it face the problems of [[Locale South Tottenham|South Tottenham]] to its east. It's almost a border town between the two very different halves of Haringey; but it's not at all edgy, it's vibrant and perhaps a little unsure of its own identity. Think of Harringay if you don't live there and it's almost certain that you'll think Green Lanes. But behind the hustle and bustle, most of Harringay is made up of residential streets of Victorian terraced houses. The streets leading off to the west are highly rectilinear and bisected by an alleyway called Harringay Passage; they're known as the Harringay Ladder (see [http://web.archive.org/web/20110224031520/http://blog.urbanomic.com/tome/archives/2005/09/colour_suppleme.html this obsessive blog post] on the subject, with many photos). Green Lanes itself is along the lines of a local high street. Deserted by the likes of Woolworths and Joe Soap's Fruit & Veg in the 1960s, it was first peppered with Greek and Greek-Cypriot shops. Today it has a definite Kurdish/Turkish flavour to it with a number of Turkish and Kurdish ocakbasi (barbecue/grill) restaurants/cafes as well as various grocery shops and pound shops. Yet, strangely, relatively few people living in Harringay are either Turkish or Kurdish themselves. The spelling of Harringay and the reason for the difference from the spelling of the Borough of Haringey has long perplexed locals and non-locals alike. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harringay The Wikipedia article on the history of Harringay] gives a detailed explanation. See also: * [http://www.harringayonline.com/ harringayonline.com] (mainly aimed at local residents) * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harringay Wikipedia entry] Auto-generated list of things in Harringay (@MAP_LINK [[Locale Harringay|view them on a map]]): @INDEX_LIST [[Locale Harringay]]
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