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After reunification former "East" district Friedrichshain moved back to the center together with next-door "West" district Kreuzberg. The old working class residential area suddenly ranked among Berlin's best locations: Trendy shops, art galleries and hip bars opened up.
To Friedrichshain, you walk from Alexanderplatz via Karl-Marx-Allee, past monumental, uniform apartment blocks built back in the 1950s, when the alley's name changed from Grosse Frankfurter Strasse to Stalin-Allee. The blocks were supposed to offer inexpensive, comfortable living space to working class people. Karl-Marx-Allee today is classified as historical monument ...