Dam square

Barge

Central station

perspective

the new face of Amsterdam

Het ij

The north face of Amsterdam

Homo monument

Such an endless desire for friendship expressed in a simple triangle

Jordaan, street view

Up side down

Jordaan humour

Running for your cheese

doing business on a bike

Applaus voor de burgermeester

Before being a greaet mayor, he was such aan inspiring human being. When it became clear he has still very few time left, some one called a citizen gathering to thank for all he ment for the city, People from all Amsterdam's social classes and diverse ethnical groups attended the event.

Take good care of our city and of each others

Eberhart van der Laan's last message.

Winter

winter view

Winter view at the stedelijk museum

Vintage ladies

Dance Dance

Shop window and reflection

Tram in the night

A street car called désire

Alone in the night

A street car called désire

zeedijk

brown cafe on the zeedijk, one Amsterdam's oldest street

Les tricoteuses

When one sells knitting furniture, the best marketing trick is showing how to knit. This shop survived the gentrification of the BoLo district and might have benefited from it sa knitting is in again.

Shadow

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Passengers

In a multiethnic district ad BoLo, one can see all dress codes, from shorts to burka's

Barella organist

Barella organi arte the sound of Dutch street life

Street life

Dun Yong

A supermarket with an history of love and courage

The imperio is named by Gran pa Dun Yong, one the first generation of Chinese stokers who came to Amsterdam after the First World War. THeywere called 'blue pipes' after the blue pipes on these ships. Dun Yong, whose real name - Tang Yong - was misspelled in the Netherlands at the time, married in 1945 with the Rotterdam Stientje van Gaans. They went to live on the Amsterdam Recht Boomssloot. A year later their son Hengko was born. Dun Yong worked for years as a cook in various Chinese restaurants. In 1959 he caught his eye in a small shop of less than 15 square metres in the former 'Warehouse of Men's and Children's Clothing by Bernard Wöstmann' on the corner of Geldersekade and Stormsteeg.
In 1968, Hengko went to Hong Kong for a few years to learn Cantonese. There he met teacher Wai Ming, born in Shanghai, whom he married. Together they returned to Amsterdam and took over their father's business in 1972. The supermarket on the ground floor has been running all the way up to the Zeedijk since 2002.
credit http://www.winkelstories.com/DunYong00.html (in Dutch)

Amsterdam bouwt!

Zeedijk

ZeeDijk

Warmoesstraat

Haarlemmerdijk