Author: Rasmus Kjær

I moved to Nørrebro from Vesterbro eight years ago because I could not afford Vesterbro anymore and Nørrebro was still affordable. This is a sentence I am aware is funny if you know what Nørrebro costs now. Nørrebro is the neighbourhood that has been Copenhagen’s “up and coming” area for about twenty-five years, a designation…

My parents ran a printing shop on Istedgade. They opened it in 1989 when the street was something the city wanted to look away from — sex workers, heroin, cheap hotels, the specific poverty of a neighbourhood that functions as a city’s pressure valve. They closed it in 2019 when the rent made it impossible….