Update September 2023: Maandagavond 4 september zat een kleine delegatie van het bestuur van de Vrienden aan tafel met burgemeester Halsema en vier ambtenaren. Met ons nog vertegenwoordigers van de Prinses Irenebuurt, het Amstelpark en de Mirandabuurt. Onderwerp van...
Park in the press
Plans for the RAI
We are just as surprised as you are, about this article in the Parool: apartments on the RAI grounds and expansion of the park? It would be justice indeed: our Vereniging was founded 40 years ago to protect the park against extension of the RAI. We will keep an eye on...
Interview AT5 about Japanese Knotweed brigade
The unique Japanese Knotweed brigade of volunteers in the Beatrixpark featured in a programma on the Amsterdam Television Network AT5. "Isn't this a lost battle?" "Noooo! We simply have to persevere." Of course we hope the municipality will start doing more in the...
Research experience greeness
One of our members sent us an interesting article published in Elsevier Science. It deals with the relation between the amount of greenery in somebody's surroundings and his/her psychological well-being. The east side of the Beatrixpark is given as an example....