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Nam Kee restaurant on Amsterdam’s Zeedijk, where researchers say additional housing could be built above the single existing floor amid the city’s housing shortage.
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Researchers spot hundreds of rooftop spaces for housing in Amsterdam’s historic center
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Initial design for a new 'Erotic Center' in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam seeks public input on mayor’s controversial Erotic Center plans
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An artist's rendering of Amsterdam's proposed Erotic Center
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Amsterdam mayor rebukes criticism that erotic center at the RAI will be bad for business
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The Red Light District in Amsterdam at night
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Amsterdam planning to extend early closing times for Red Light District to 2027
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Amsterdam's skyline at sunset
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Parts of Amsterdam designated safety risk areas prior to Ajax match against Galatasary
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Crowded Leidsestraat in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam to ban hotels from jamming in sleeping pods to reduce city center overtourism
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Femke Halsema
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Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema secures City Council nomination for second term
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Sign at the NDSM-Werf protesting against the Erotic Center, stating “Do your fucking in De Wallen” in Dutch. March 2023.
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Amsterdam-Noord residents relieved as NDSM excluded from Erotic Center plans
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An artist's rendering of Amsterdam's proposed Erotic Center
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Amsterdam chooses Europaboulevard for controversial Erotic Center location
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Posters against the proposed Erotic Center in Amsterdam. July 2023.
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Amsterdam residents to demonstrate against proposed erotic center in Noord
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Bumpy bricks trial on the Bethaniënstraat in the Red Light District in Amsterdam to stop drug dealers in Amsterdam. 6 December 2024.
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Locals skeptical about Amsterdam's bumpy stones trial to deter Red Light drug dealers
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The sign outside a police station near Leidseplein in Amsterdam. 30 April 2023
Crime
Suspect held over Amsterdam stabbing that left woman lying in a pool of blood
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Photo of Hugo Broers used for the front cover of the book "Hugo Penoze"
CrimeCulture
Reformed Amsterdam gangster, Hugo Broers, discusses his life in the Red Light District
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The streets of the Red Light District in Amsterdam packed with tourists on a Thursday night in July 2017
Crime
Amsterdam cops arrest 55 in Red Light District case targeting street drug dealers
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Signs on Mercatorplein in Amsterdam about bans against using cannabis and alcohol
Politics
Last weekend to legally smoke cannabis outside in the Red Light District
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An artist's rendering of Amsterdam's proposed Erotic Center
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NDSM wharf "absolutely not" suitable for erotic center, says Amsterdam-Noord council
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An artist's rendering of Amsterdam's proposed Erotic Center
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Amsterdam erotic center to be built near RAI or NDSM Wharf; Red Light window closures unknown
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Police in Amsterdam monitor Napoli supporters before their Champions League match against Ajax. 4 October 2022
Sports
Amsterdam designates security risk areas tonight as Ajax takes on Berlin; PSV at Seville
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Touring Museum Plus Bus in Amsterdam, 30 March 2022
Business
Amsterdam to ban some tour buses from city center from 2024
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A heavy police presence around Dam Square in Amsterdam before the Champions League semi-final, 8 May 2019
CrimeSports
Amsterdam implementing stop-and-frisk at Ajax-Rangers Champions League match today
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Amsterdam Red Light District
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Amsterdam may close Red Light District bars at 2 a.m., windows at 3 a.m. on weekends
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Initial design for a new 'Erotic Center' in Amsterdam
PoliticsBusiness
Halsema presents detailed plan for a new 'Sex Hotel' in Amsterdam
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Masks
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Police ends anti-masks demonstration in Rotterdam
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Red Light District, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jam-packed Red Light District giving residents new angst