QUEENS, N.Y. — A well-known local brothel near two schools in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's red-light district has been shut down by the NYPD after months of advocacy by local leaders who say the ...
NEW YORK – Local leaders in New York City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district have again called on FBI Director Kash Patel to finally crush what they call the festering scourge of ruthless ...
Moving the window brothels out of the Red Light District would be a big step in discouraging party behavior in Amsterdam. Amsterdam city officials are trying to push tourists away from the city center ...
It is 11 a.m. on a weekday in late June in Amsterdam’s De Wallen district, and a clean-up operation is underway. Street sweeping machines are collecting trash that hints at a raucous time the night ...
Protesters marched along the notorious “Market of Sweethearts” in Queens Sunday, lamenting the prostitution plagued neighborhood looks like Bangkok’s infamous red light district — and “doesn’t feel ...
It’s the latest in a long line of efforts to tame the neighborhood. It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the ...
In a meeting hall in the south of the city, hundreds of angry locals who do not want a “mega brothel” on their doorstep found themselves on the same side as sex workers who want to stay in their red ...
A new era kicked off in Amsterdam’s Red Light District on Thursday, with a ban on smoking cannabis on the streets officially taking effect. The ban is part of a city-wide effort, pushed by Mayor Femke ...
The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residents, but sex workers oppose measures recently put in place. Now the city is looking to set up legal prostitution elsewhere. By Claire Moses ...