A part of the city located at the northern site of the water the IJ which wasn't that favourite over the years. Nowadays it has become a place where companies, artists and inhabitants are keen on living and working..

From the fourteenth century on a small point of this swampy piece of land was a gallows pit where Amsterdammers rowed and picnic near the dead bodies Only from the end of the nineteenth century did this piece of land and water become useful for the city as a business park. Café Wilhelminadok still refers to a huge previous ADM dock which was in progress along the IJ shore from the beginning of the twentieth century. A village named Vogeldorp was especially built for the ADM and Draka dock workers in the twenties. The guide is taking you along this village, a mosque, the oldest city forest of Amsterdam, Tuindorp Nieuwendam and the Purmer Square. There you'll see houses and public buildings designed according to Amsterdam School and Waterland architecture. You will also encounter the newly arisen buildings such as flats and the new film museum Eye at the previous Shell area. .