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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The group is not explicitly anti-tourist, but it does view mass tourism as a problem for local communities, saying ‘when ...

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 ...