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The nearby Simon-Dach-Straße; below right Frankfurter Tor (north tower).
"Mix Williamsburg with the Lower East Side, add a Teutonic accent and you've got the increasingly hip Berlin neighborhood Friedrichshain. It is home to both students and slackers, as a cracking night life has sprung up in the shadow of the Ostbahnhof, the main train station in the former East Berlin." — The New York Times, 12 Dec. 2004
 "Architecturally speaking, Friedrichshain is an intriguing mixture of concrete socialist high-rises, monumental Stalin-era mammoths (along Karl-Marx-Allee) and stylish, late-nineteenth-century town houses. The area around Simon-Dach-Straße is heaving with alternative bars, cafes and clubs and is a popular spot with students." — D. Allen, travel.yahoo.com
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