Train station are tresholds - or passages - people come and go, continuously, they move between different worlds.
Keleti (Eastern train station) and its sourroundings is one of the dark and sometimes surrealistic places of Budapest. It is a place where you can change money with Arabs - if you wanna do that .... and it is not cosidered to be safe around here. There used to be a great fleah market just behind the station, which was supposed to be closed down last year. It was so funny, as at the antrance of the market a huge sign said: "it is forbidden to out your goods on the ground" - and just behind the sign you saw ca. 50 meter long various used staff - packed naturally on the ground. At the entrance, right next to the sign, there were policemena and women keeping the feel of security... in the market you may be able to buy back your stoled bike, or bike-seats, but like on any other flea-market, you could get all kinds of shit. I was there last year, ehen they were about to close it, and many vendors had put up papers saying - we will be selling our stuff a corner aways from here, and they also tried to protest against the clsoure of the market.
Its a multi-cultural place, and opposite to it is a traditionally Jewish area, e.g. the famous "Nefelejcs street", where the protagonist of Faithlessness by Imre Kertész returns back from Auschwitz, and in the end of that street the Bethlen square synagogue, a former center of undergound Zionism, and the location where Marom has been founded, and organized its first festival, on the 1st December 2001.
Some parts have been renovated and it is eclectic.
At the moment Metro 4 is buing built here. The photo was taken in a dark tunnel, next to a surrealistic butcher shop and some shop where you can order your own grave...there is quite a lot of street art around here lately.
Keleti (Eastern train station) and its sourroundings is one of the dark and sometimes surrealistic places of Budapest. It is a place where you can change money with Arabs - if you wanna do that .... and it is not cosidered to be safe around here. There used to be a great fleah market just behind the station, which was supposed to be closed down last year. It was so funny, as at the antrance of the market a huge sign said: "it is forbidden to out your goods on the ground" - and just behind the sign you saw ca. 50 meter long various used staff - packed naturally on the ground. At the entrance, right next to the sign, there were policemena and women keeping the feel of security... in the market you may be able to buy back your stoled bike, or bike-seats, but like on any other flea-market, you could get all kinds of shit. I was there last year, ehen they were about to close it, and many vendors had put up papers saying - we will be selling our stuff a corner aways from here, and they also tried to protest against the clsoure of the market.
Its a multi-cultural place, and opposite to it is a traditionally Jewish area, e.g. the famous "Nefelejcs street", where the protagonist of Faithlessness by Imre Kertész returns back from Auschwitz, and in the end of that street the Bethlen square synagogue, a former center of undergound Zionism, and the location where Marom has been founded, and organized its first festival, on the 1st December 2001.
Some parts have been renovated and it is eclectic.
At the moment Metro 4 is buing built here. The photo was taken in a dark tunnel, next to a surrealistic butcher shop and some shop where you can order your own grave...there is quite a lot of street art around here lately.
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