A former red-light district and industrial area, King’s Cross used to be somewhere tourists — and locals — would happily bypass. But no longer. Since the Eurostar was diverted away from Waterloo to St ...

I remember the first time I consciously went to King’s Cross, on the northeastern edge of central London, and by “consciously,” I mean in the first sweaty bloom of swaggering adolescence, up for life ...

Among the postindustrial-chic buildings and stylish restaurants and shops: Victorian splendor, verdant hide-outs and the long-ago haunts of writers and musicians. By Mark Vanhoenacker When I was young ...