List of Sin Cities
Nickname that applies to many cities with vice scenes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sin City is a nickname that may be applied to an urban area (a city or part of) that caters to various vices. These vices may be legal (depending on area) or illegal activities which are tolerated.
Examples of such vices include sex-related services (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shops, etc.), gambling (casinos, betting shops, etc.), or drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc. consumption), and even excessive organized crime and gang activity. If the city is known for prostitution, it is often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sin Cities in the world
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Perspective
Cities or areas that have this reputation include:
Africa
Asia
- Bahrain
- China
- India
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- George Town (nightclubs, strip clubs, drinking, clubbing, parties, massage parlors)[5]
- Philippines
- Angeles City (prostitution, gambling, drinking, clubbing)[5][12]
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Istanbul (strip clubs, prostitution, drinking, brothels, clubbing, massage parlors, cabarets, drugs, scams, organized crime, police corruption)[citation needed]
Europe
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Greece
- Athens (prostitution, drugs, brothels, clubbing, drinking, scams, organized crime, police corruption)[citation needed]
- The Netherlands
- Russia
- Spain
- Malta
- United Kingdom
North America
- Canada
- Montreal became well known as one of North America's "sin cities" with unparalleled nightlife, a reputation it still holds today. In part, its bustling nightlife is attributed to its relatively late "last call" (3 a.m.), a large university population, the drinking age of 18, and the excellent public transportation system combines with other aspects of the Montreal culture to make the city's nightlife unique. The diversity of the clubs in Montreal attests to the popularity of its nightlife, with night clubs, pubs, bars and singing bars ("boîte à chanson"), Latin clubs, African clubs, jazz clubs, lounges, after-hours houses, and strip clubs all attracting different types of customers.
- United States
- Alabama
- California
- Los Angeles[22] and its Hollywood district (bank robberies, porn industry, sex-publishing industries, tabloids, prostitution (Sunset & Vine); also includes police corruption, nightclubs, drugs, drinking, strip clubs, gangs.)[5]
- San Francisco (organized crime, gangs, drugs, and prostitution)[23]
- Florida
- Illinois
- Calumet City (organized crime, illegal alcohol consumption, gambling, prostitution)[24]
- Chicago (organized crime, political and police corruption)[25]
- Kentucky
- Nevada
- Las Vegas (gambling, bookmaking, easy marriage, easy divorce, organized crime, prostitution [however, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas and Clark County], strip clubs, cabarets, clubbing, 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada];[27][5] quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."). In former days it was known also for organized crime and police and political corruption.
- Reno[28] (gambling, drinking, strip clubs, clubbing, easy marriage, easy divorce, prostitution [however, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Washoe County] 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada]).
- New Jersey
- Atlantic City (gambling, bookmaking, organized crime, drinking, prostitution, clubbing, and strip clubs)[5] (Known as the World Famous Playground) (In the old days it was known also for organized crime, police corruption, and political corruption).[29]
- New York
- New York City formerly known for out of control crime, Times Square's sex shops and prostitution and barely hidden drug trade and citywide gangs, including many Mob families and police and political corruption.
- Utica was formerly considered a sin city, and was known as the "Sin City of the East" in the 1930s through 1950s due to widespread corruption, organized crime, and political machines.[30]
South America
Oceania
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Sydney[33]
- Kings Cross – A historically notorious inner-city of Sydney, although this reputation is outdated with the imposition of new lockout laws in February 2014 changing the character of the area dramatically, and arguably eliminating the only "sin city" in Australia.[34] (Prostitution, brothels, gambling (illegal and legal), organized crime, bikie gangs (to an extent), police corruption, drugs, strip clubs, drinking, excessive, drunken and random violence.)[5]
- Sydney[33]
- Queensland
- Gold Coast[35]
- Mount Isa – known for its alcohol[36]
- Northern Territory
- Victoria
Former Sin Cities
Asia
Europe
- Weimar Republic
- Monto, Dublin – (prostitution, crime)
North America
- Canada
- United States
- Alabama
- Phenix City, was notorious during the 1940s and 1950s for being a haven for organized crime, prostitution, and gambling. Many of its customers came from the United States Army training center at Fort Benning, Georgia.[45]
- Florida
- Illinois
- Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s (prostitution, bootlegging, cabarets, speakeasies, illegal gambling, bank robberies, police corruption, political corruption, organized crime, and gang activity)
- Indiana
- Michigan City was considered Sin City in the 1980-1990s, with the proliferation of massage parlors.[47]
- Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag in 1955. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district").[48] Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
- Kentucky
- Covington, Kentucky (brothels, gambling, organized crime)[49]
- Newport, Kentucky (brothels, gambling, organized crime)[49]
- Massachusetts
- Boston, Massachusetts, from the early-1960s to the early-1990s recession years, known for the Scollay Square burlesque district and the Combat Zone adult entertainment district, Suffolk Downs on the Revere city line, notorious housing projects, the largest policy racket in the United States, loan shark offices at Bennington and Brooks streets in the East Boston district, and rowdy Irish pubs aligned along West Broadway and Dorchester streets in the South Boston district.
- Lynn, Massachusetts, during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, known for its famous rhyme, "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin, you never come out the way you go in.
- Louisiana
- New Orleans[50] from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district (prostitution, brothels, gambling, and speakeasies)
- New York
- New York City in the mid to late 19th century and 20th century (prostitution, brothels, illegal gambling, notorious slums, pickpocketing, police corruption, political corruption, drugs, gangs, organized crime), Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990 (prostitution, pornography, go-go bars, sex shops, sex shows, squeegee men, strip clubs, clubbing, drugs, organized crime)
- Utica, in the 1930s through the 1950s for the extent of its corruption and control from political machines, presence of organized crime.[51]
- Texas
- Alabama
Oceania
- Australia
- Western Australia
- Kalgoorlie – once home to many brothels and pubs that opened in the morning[53]
- Western Australia
See also
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Sodom and Gomorrah, the sin cities of the Bible
- Red-light district
- Sin City (film)
- Gotham City
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