The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Zeedijk
This one street holds the whole arc: medieval flood defense, sailors' quarter, drug ground zero, now Chinatown. I walk it slowly and read every decade.
The original sea dike that held back the IJ, and the sailors' street for centuries. In the 1980s it was the city's heroin frontline; it clawed its way back.
— Femke, The Historian
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