Expressing Quote by Labrinth

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

— Zawe Ashton

A lot of the people that I spoke to, we are all stars in Hackney, and when it is our time to shine, it…

— Jay Blades

I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.

— Zawe Ashton

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so…

— Andrew Rannells

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

— Zoe Kravitz

I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then you're a…

— Jay Blades

Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London

— Meg Hillier

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

— Anthony Weiner

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

— Dante Basco

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in…

— Danny Brown

Well let me take to to the neck of the woods. In my hood, uptown. Show you wat we livin like.

— Birdman