Tiong Bahru Estate is a housing estate at 56 Eng Hoon St, Tiong Bahru, Singapore. It holds a 4.3 Google rating from 16 reviews.
Tiong Bahru is one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates, known for its low-rise 1930s apartment blocks in an Art Deco and streamlined style, and it has become a popular neighbourhood for cafes, bookshops and bakeries as well as long-time residents. A good housing estate is judged on connections to transport, shops, markets and green spaces, and on how well the buildings are kept. Anyone considering a home here should visit at different times of day to judge noise from the cafes and the weekend crowds, and look at how well the blocks are connected by walkways and how accessible they are, since older low-rise blocks may have no lifts. Visitors are drawn by the wet market and food centre, the heritage architecture and the cafes, and weekend brunch hours are the busiest, while weekday mornings are calmer. Visitors should respect the fact that people live here, keeping noise low and following signage in shared areas. Tiong Bahru MRT station is within walking distance.
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