Sin City (description)

Sin Cities in the world

[Africa]

• Morocco
• * Marrakesh

  [Asia]

• Azerbaijan
• *Baku
• Bahrain
• * Manama
• China
• *Dongguan
• *Macau
• Israel
• *Tel Aviv
• Lebanon
• *Beirut.
• Philippines
• *Angeles
• Thailand
• *Bangkok
• *Pattaya

  [Europe]

• Cyprus
• *Ayia Napa
• Czech Republic
• *Prague
• The Netherlands
• *Amsterdam
• Russia
• *Moscow
• Spain
• *Ibiza
• United Kingdom
• * Liverpool, England
• *Soho, London, England

  [North America]

• Mexico
• * Tijuana
• United States
• * Alabama
• ** Phenix City
• * California
• **Los Angeles and its Hollywood district
• **San Francisco
• * Florida
• **Miami
• * Illinois
• ** Chicago
• * Kentucky
• **Newport is the first city within North America to be coined the title due to its role in prostitution, gambling, gangs, gunplay, racketeering, and many others.
• * Nevada
• **Las Vegas. In former days it was known also for organized crime and police and political corruption.
• **Reno.
• * New Jersey
• **Atlantic City .
• * 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.

  South America

• Brazil
• *Rio de Janeiro
• Colombia
• *Medellin
• Venezuela
• *Caracas

  [Oceania]

• Australia
• *Kings Cross, New South Wales A historically notorious inner-city of Sydney, although this reputation is outdated with the imposition of new lockout laws in February 2014 changing the character of the area dramatically, and arguably eliminating the only "sin city" in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. , organized crime, bikie gangs
• New Zealand
• *Auckland

  Former Sin Cities

Asia

• China
• *Shanghai 1920s and 1930s.

  Europe

• Weimar Republic
• *Berlin - 1920s and early 1930s
• *Monto, Dublin -

  North America

• Canada
• *Montreal, Quebec, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists fleeing the prohibition laws.
• 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.
• * Florida
• **Miami, during the 1970s and 1980s
• * Illinois
• **Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s
• * Indiana
• **Michigan City was considered Sin City in the 1980-1990s, with the proliferation of massage parlors.
• **Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag in 1955.. Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
• * Kentucky
• **Covington, Kentucky
• **Newport, Kentucky
• * 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. Also, it was more commonly known as the forgotten city.
• **Chelsea, Massachusetts, during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, known as Chelsea on the Rocks.
• **Revere Beach, Massachusetts, and Wonderland Greyhound Park on the former Wonderland amusement park site, from after prohibition to the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, dubbed the gambling capital of New England.
• **Lynn, Massachusetts, during the 1960s, 70s, and 80, known for its famous rhyme, "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin, you never come out the way you go in.
• * Louisiana
• **New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district
• * New York
• **New York City in the mid to late 19th Century and 20th century, Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990
• **Utica, in the 1930s through the 1950s for the extent of its corruption and control from political machines, presence of organized crime.
• * Texas
• **Galveston in the 1920s to 1957