Antwerp Sinksenfoor Moved to Spoor Oost Ten Years Ago After a Legal Battle and Riots with the Police: “The Complainants Were Proven Right, but Look How Well Things Are Going Now”

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It was preceded by a legal battle, and there were even street riots: ten years ago, the lights of the Sinksenfoor at Spoor Oost came on for the first time. That move, from Antwerp South to the abandoned marshalling yard in Borgerhout, was also the start of a lot of hard work to put an Antwerp monument back on the map. But look: it worked.