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Its main shopping street, Green Lanes, is a vibrant and cosmopolitan high street. Some shops have a long established presence, like Disney's furniture store, which has traded there since 1913. Others reflect the more transitional nature of Green Lanes and in 2007 included a scattered cluster of Kurdish & Turkish bakeries, grocers, cafes and restaurants. There are several pubs including the Grade II listed and Pevsner noted Salisbury. Part of the 1980 film The Long Good Friday and the 1992 biopic of Charlie Chaplin. were shot there.
A little further south on the opposite side of the road is the Garden Ladder bar. Towards the southern end stands the well-preserved, Victoriana-laden Beaconsfield public house. Opposite is the new Arena Shopping Park with shops including Sainsbury's supermarket, Homebase store and one of Britain's first "drive-thru" McDonald's restaurants.
A large section of the eastern side of Green Lanes is called Grand Parade. With the exception of the gaps introduced by the residential roads running eastwards, the Grand Parade runs almost uninterrupted, for nearly half a kilometre from just north of Harringay Green Lanes railway station to St Ann's Road.
Whilst the main road feels definitely cosmopolitan, the population of the surrounding streets is somewhat more homogeneous (See Demographics section.). The streets to the west of Green Lanes are known as 'Harringay Park' or the 'Harringay Ladder' (due to their similarity to a ladder when seen on a map). The streets to the east behind Grand Parade are known as 'Harringay Gardens'.
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