This blog was started in 2008 when our alley, the Oudezijds Armsteeg, was a big garbage mountain mess. In 2012, we started the street gardens (geveltuinen), and an art gallery in the alley, with the help of the Gemeente Amsterdam. And now, our street is totally different. We decided to keep this blog for “historic” reference. To learn more about our rubbish struggles, please read about the Street corner history. We started another “positive” blog, http://www.oudezijdsarmsteeg.nl; unfortunately it has not been updated in a long while

Unhappily, in 2022, we are having a HUGE problem with hardcore drug dealers. So this website has been restarted. The writing is mostly in English (or a a form of Dunglish).