Steel City Vice is now @covertnky.com.

New home base, new and expanded content and same historical themes.

I am proud to live in a neighborhood with a corner bar that has a history corner featuring docs/pix describing a century of vice activities that took place there. Featured: a 2001 DEA report documenting a raid there. Named, a bartender named "Linda, LNU" (last name unknown) and oxy dealer Jeff. 🗃️

Of course there was a long-lived gambling club in Covington, Kentucky, called the Press Club. Gambling arrests began in the 1940s and continued under new ownership & a new name (New Press Club) for another 25 years!

No matter how hard city leaders and local residents try, they can't whitewash Covington, Kentucky's, underworld history. linknky.com/culture/2025...

Was crooked attorney Charles Lester (played by actor Wallace Shawn) who represented mobsters on two CBS dramas based on a real-life crooked attorney Charles Lester Jr. who represented mobsters in post-Prohibition Northern Kentucky? 🗃️

Get to know a little bit about how two Northern Kentucky cities with deep mob ties tackle their complicated histories: Newport and Covington. linknky.com/culture/2025...

Pittsburgh's Vice Queens: Bootlegging Bubbies & Roadhouse Madams. A free program April 10, 2025, in the Penn Hills Library's True Crime Week. Registration and program info: pennhills.librarycalendar.com/event/true-c...

Spring is just around the corner. You know what that means? Mob history walking tours! steelcityvice.com/south-side-b...

A new kind of trivia game: guess the mobster by his criminal case card!

We had a lively group of South Siders on last weekend's South Side by the Numbers walking tour. We paused in front of the former Lotus Club for a group photo. 📸 by Laura Hussey via Ashley Cortazzo.

There's lots more than mob history to see & hear on the South Side by the Numbers walking tour.
Learn about life in the South Side during the 20th century where millions of workers had to take second & third jobs to make ends meet in buildings like this one. Tour info link in the comments.

How numbers gambling developed in Pittsburgh's Hill District.
steelcityvice.com/2024/09/03/h...

New fall dates announced: South Side by the Numbers organized crime walking tours. Registration links go live next week for Sept. 28, Sept. 29, and Oct. 19. Join award-winning writer and historian David Rotenstein on a trip through the South Side's vice history. steelcityvice.com/south-side-b...

There is a “Pittsburgh True Crime” panel at this year’s Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books May 11. There will be some familiar names and faces.

events.humanitix.com/pgh-true-crime

Spring means it's walking tour season.

In 1933 bank robber Willie Sutton spent a little time in Braddock, Pa. What made the biggest impression on him during his brief stay? Numbers gambling, of course. wordpress.com/post/steelci...

Historically, newspapermen were immune from getting whacked by contract killers. Historically.

One cold winter morning a Pittsburgh preacher took on vice among his flock. He ended up making headlines around the nation. steelcityvice.com/2023/10/24/t...

Did this Sept. 1939 prizefight change the course of organized crime history in Pittsburgh? Follow @yinzervice.bsky.social on Bluesky for some clues next week.