In the West, only new.

Image change in the district: Around the Zurich red light street miles long and in the former industrial district sprießt young creative life in the old walls. Whether gallery, restaurant or dance club - Züri West sets the trends.

 

Zurich is too rich. Zurich is smart and sweet and nice, Zurich is a Streber. Zurich is the parade ground, its foundation is pure gold. Zurich is Pelzmänteln with old ladies and small dogs in the "Sprüngli" spitzlippig Luxemburgerli nibble. But Zurich is also different, is drugs and prostitution and violence and occupation of houses and sub-culture and nightlife.

This other history of the town can be from one nodal point of telling: the taxi stand at the long-Strasse 94, a small square in the middle of the sin Babel. Until a few months ago stood as taxi drivers around and fighting with the intoxicated, the intoxicated with the sluts, the sluts with the police, the Kurds with the Turkish mafia mafia and all together, then a tree, place the newly paved, three benches and set up a drinking fountain. During the day, now sitting as the alcoholics, eating kebab students and employees of nearby offices, bask in the midday break.

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The neighborhood is currently undergoing an image change, the positive characteristics of the business location Langstrasse district "in should be brought to the fore, must of course also on the safety and cleanliness to work, says the club Langstrasse marketing. Disneylandisierung, say others. Currently there is a mile in the state of a peculiar blend of milieu staff and folk scene, prostitution and partying, drug addicts and fun addicts, criminals and Afterwork-Wilden. Weird, but unique.

From Cabaret to the party institution

It is half past one clock morning, a Saturday. The police car moves slowly, almost silently through the long road that somehow haiähnlich. He travels on the bus lane, but the consistently verbotenerweise of cyclists used. They leisurely way from the sidewalk, knowing that the police in this part of the city have more important things to do.

When a group of shady looking characters, the cars are. Four officers get out and grab a man, pressing him against a wall. Three young girls in leggings under mini skirts, one with a small Louis Vuitton bag, which is really quite sure, because you may be connected to the expensive haircuts and subtle Ballerinas indicate that the offspring of girls Züriberg are super rich, and go großäugig some distance to the scene over, only a few steps later, they begin to chatter excitedly.

Directly across from the place of arrest, at the place at the taxi stand, breathe the Bar "Longstreet" angeschickerte Feierwütige off and on again, with each opening of the door schwappen an eclectic music and drunken Gejohle in the night. A few years ago was the "Longstreet" a cabaret, then came two of the Zurich Habitués party scene and made it to what now is an institution.

The takeover was so soft that even the beginning of the older regulars cabarets in balloon silk blousons confused by the new guests expressed a perfectly intended effect, as the operators say, because they want a "good mix" of. In interviews, they carefully before adopting the environment that they are not planning to make it sell. Also sluts are still welcome in the new "Long Street, just a purchase, they should not. Meanwhile, they do not anymore.

Latina women in the Piranha Bar

The Puff-send of the interior was thus maintained, red velvet dominates the restaurant, the booths of the upper floor is still the small stage with a pole, newly came from a sky light bulbs. In the ecstasy of the night screwed Yves Spink, one of the leaders of the "Long Street," and liked what they give away at short notice beloved. He is a clown, a crazy genius, a walking legend drugs-silly, a Durchgeknallte, an unpredictable event junkie, now a peaceful citizen, as he says like, others say "Zurich Boris Yeltsin" (constantly wavered on, but everything under control), one who knew so many is that they all know they never can.

His partner Koni is a veteran outdoor disco and restaurant entrepreneur. And a pioneer in the District: 1993 Club, he opened the "firm", in the gymnasium at the place of a school break just at the edge of the environment? He was considered Spinner verschrien. Twenty steps away and a few years later came the "Central" bar on again a few steps away, today its café-bar "Sport".

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And then Clear marched boldly into the midst of the hurricane eye, for "Longstreet". His latest baby is the "People's House Restaurant", exactly in the middle between initial and final endpoint, between "firm" and "Longstreet." Vis-à-vis the Helvetiaplatz with the large building where formerly there was the social welfare, with its syringe vending machines and the junkies in the wells and wash the feet where there is always a bit after the urine smell and where you prefer to use ATM gloves and served quickly makes.

A door next to the Long Street, also adjacent to the location, the flickers bright yellow plastic palm of the "Piranha Bar, Latina women are uninterested, but maddening at the entrance, from inside comes Bummbummsalsa. Men's watch. Go inside. Between the ports of Long Street "and" Piranha Bar "are a Würstchenbude and the entrance to an office building: The creative work. An architect's office, a hip advertising agency, a famous graphic studio, a marketing and event company.

Schoggiland peak in the 24-hour bakery

A translation agency was among the first in the house than on the top floor still "the women lived," as the boss says. "The women" are sluts. Fear, she had never said an employee of the first hour, "the police is always present here." Now and then there's fights, even shootings, but you get used to it. About a dead drug addict to get off in order to come into the office, as a few years ago, times happens, but it was pretty shocking.

Meanwhile, there are three clock this Saturday morning, on one of the benches sits a young woman and cries, her friends comforting rub her back and make calls. Ein etwa Dreißigjähriger mit Schirmmütze ruft im Suff euphorisch einen Namen: Claudia, Claudia, immer wieder, seine Kumpels versuchen ihn amüsiert und halbherzig zu beruhigen, bugsieren ihn weg.

Before the "Happy Beck" cavort people. The "Happy Beck" is probably the most significant innovation in the recent past, has perhaps the most changed. The bakery at the weekend has opened 24 hours and is the contact point for all those in celebration of the need to strengthen or for breakfast the next morning, which usually has actually already begun. Inside, then, do the popular Chocolate Summit and other snacks on the counter, waiting outside Junkies with hollow hands and count on generous alcoholic. And rightly so.