I live in a 30m² one-room apartment in Kreuzberg's Großbeerenstrasse, close to Mehringdamm station on the U6 line from Alt-Tegel to Alt-Mariendorf.
I also live near the Bergmannstrasse, which has a lot of delightful little international restaurants (more later) and Yorckstrasse, which has an awesome cinema:
Kreuzberg is Berlin's most famous working class immigrant district, and some say it has the third-largest Turkish immigrant population in the world.
Strictly speaking, though, Kreuzberg is divided into two districts: S036 and SW61. The first is home to radicals and immigrants, and the second is more bourgeouis. I'm still not sure which one I live in.
Although apparently every May 1st, my street looks like this:
(spiegel.de)
We shall see...
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