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Magna Plaza Even if you don't want to buy anything, you should still take the escalator to the fourth-floor gallery of the fine Magna Plaza shopping arcade and stroll through the many shops. Stamps are no longer sold behind the neo-Gothic fa?ade of the former Central Post Office, it is now home to expensive men's fashions, chic accessories, gifts and unusual stationery.

For Maurits Van Brunschot, the breaking point came nearly 21 years after he first settled amid the cobblestone alleyways of De Wallen, Amsterdam's red-light district. Van Brunschot began taking his infant daughter to day care. The neighborhood's public nursery was squeezed between two brothels, where nearly naked women in the windows beckon adult passersby. "Can you imagine this is what she sees every day?" says Van Brunschot, a food-company executive.