abstract:Hackney Wick is an area straddling the boundary between the London Borough of Hackney and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. It is an inner-city development situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Charing Cross.
The Greenway, which links HackneyWick to Pudding Mill Lane in Stratford, was closed from May and for the duration of the 2012 Games for security reasons.
There is a year-long waiting list for the bikes he constructs at his workshop in HackneyWick, a former industrial area of East London which has been colonised by young artists and craftspeople.