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 ...

As part of an ongoing effort to make the city more livable for locals, officials in Amsterdam have unveiled a new proposed location for its famed red light district. The new location will be Europa ...

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 ...

Amsterdam’s long-awaited plans to diminish its red-light district and establish a legal alternative "erotic center" continue to face pushback from sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs. City ...

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 ...

There are going to be less of the infamous neon-lit windows. Tourists visiting Amsterdam will often find themselves—whether accidentally or on purpose—wandering through the De Wallen red light ...

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 ...

Prostitution is legal in designated areas with a license in the capital of the Netherlands. Amsterdam authorities have announced their new scheme to move the notorious Red Light District to a ...

A murdered Dutch prostitute is haunting Amsterdam’s famed Red Light District from beyond the grave — pleading with passers-by for help finding her killer. Bernadett “Betty” Szabó, 19, was a new mother ...

As someone raised on the other side of the world, I’d always been fascinated by Amsterdam’s eccentricities, bolstered by sordid tales of the Dutch capital. From the Red Light District and its window ...

A petition has brought debate to the Parliament in the Netherlands. Amsterdam has long been held as the model for the modern sex industry, with prostitution legalized and rebranded as part of the ...