Lastly, although prostitution is legal in Amsterdam, the city’s famous “Red Light District” might just be moved…if the city’s first female mayor has any say in it. In an interview with Bloomberg Mayor Femke Halsema bemoaned how Amsterdam’s prostitutes are often besieged by drunken tourists, as the current 370 windows of 86 brothels exist right up alongside the rowdy clubs and late-night bars of the area (something that amazed me as well when I visit thge city for the first time a few years ago).
Halsema would like to take the brothels outside of the district, in, what she says, is “an effort to ease congestion and revive the historic central zones.”