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Prostitution in NYC’s ‘Market of Sweethearts’ prompts virtual tours and protests from concerned moms: ‘Really eye-opening’
ByJacob Geanous
Published Sep. 9, 2023, 8:42 a.m. ET
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Meanwhile, a group of angry moms will lead a protest march against the skin merchants on Sunday.
The stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Corona was featured twice over the last month on “The NYC Walking Show,” a channel that offers first-person tours of iconic Big Apple neighborhoods and attractions such as Yankee Stadium and Times Square.
The 32-minute clip first posted on Aug. 20 features scantily-clad women soliciting outside storefronts and massage parlors, and has already amassed more than 636,000 views.
A second video was posted Saturday showing the seedy stretch at night.
“It just shocked me what’s happening in the broad daylight,” said Sifat Razwan, the YouTuber behind the channel. “It’s even more severe than in the day.”
“On the other hand it very really eye-opening that this is what actually happens outside all those glamorous parts of New York,” added Razwan, 24, of Jamaica, Queens.
Local moms are mobilizing to push the city to shut down the brothels — which have, except one, all continued to operate since The Post’s July 29 cover story.
“We are going to keep fighting because we are very worried about what children face now,” said Guadalupe Aguirre Gomez, the coordinator of Community of Young Values and Principles who will be among those leading the march that begins Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. at the post office at 37th Avenue and 78th Street in Jackson Heights and ends at Corona Plaza.
“Queens is known as the prostitution county,” she said.
Mayor Eric Adams said days after the Post expose that he toured the area and was “putting in place an operation to deal with the sex workers.”
But in the month following that statement, just one brothel was shut down by the Queens District Attorney’s Office compared to six in two months before.
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“In the last three or so months I’ve heard [about prostitution] more than I ever have,” said Queens Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol. “In the 20 years I have been doing this, prostitution was never this big of a factor.”
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Published Feb. 10, 2024, 8:27 a.m. ET
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On Jan. 26, the NYPD boasted it had shuttered in one week a dozen massage parlors that were allegedly housing backroom bordellos along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue, a notorious red-light district exposed in a series of exclusive Post reports.
The next day, at least a dozen skin merchants stood outside different storefronts to lure clients, according to a 27-minute YouTube clip with the caption “Still Here!”
This week, The Post again toured Roosevelt Avenue, where one bold sex worker wearing a furry white jacket and pink dress whispered in a reporter’s ear: “F—k f—k, one hundred dollars.”
Later that evening, several X-rated coworkers were out in the 34-degree cold luring customers even as cops manned a mobile command center 200 feet away.
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“[Police] stop them on Monday, and then they start again on Wednesday,” said one 45-year-old clothing store manager, who declined to give his name for fear of retaliation.
“The police officers here, they have to … keep constantly doing their job [addressing prostitution]. It cannot only be one time.”
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Bold sex workers propositioned a Post reporter just 200 feet from an NYPD mobile command center.J.C. Rice
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Jackson Heights locals fretted that police’s recent brothel raids have done little to quell the illicit sex trade in the community.youtube NYC Backstage
Sarah Gil, 21, a server at La Pequeña Colombia restaurant, fretted that the ongoing influx of migrants to the Big Apple is challenging to the city’s mission to clean up the sex strip.
“I’m going to have faith [in the city’s efforts], but a lot of immigrants are coming here, especially from Venezuela,” Gil said, echoing Mayor Adams’ comments from November on the source of the area’s surge in sex work.
“There’s always gonna be prostitution on Roosevelt Avenue.”
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Democratic Councilman Francisco Moya, whose district includes Jackson Heights and Corona, claimed that a long-term plan was underway to address the illicit sex trade in his district.
“What we’re doing here is truly creating the beginning of a real crackdown on these establishments,” Moya said, insisting that police and the feds had “multiple ongoing investigations” into the brothels, but declined to provide further details.
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Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Queens) said law enforcement was conducting investigations into other brothels in the area.youtube NYC Backstage
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An NYPD spokesperson said that the dozen storefronts shuttered during last month’s raids were still subject to court-ordered closures.J.C. Rice
“Those that operate these types of establishments, beware. We’re coming to close you down.”
An NYPD spokesperson said that the dozen storefronts shuttered during last month’s raids were still subject to court-ordered closures, and anyone who entered them would be arrested and prosecuted.
They added that police are investigating other illicit brothels throughout the Roosevelt Avenue area and looking to shut them down them via the city’s nuisance abatement law “as soon as possible.”
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NYC’s ‘Market of Sweethearts’ back in business — with one sex worker trying to woo Post reporter after NYPD raided a dozen brothels
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Published Feb. 10, 2024, 8:27 a.m. ET
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On Jan. 26, the NYPD boasted it had shuttered in one week a dozen massage parlors that were allegedly housing backroom bordellos along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue, a notorious red-light district exposed in a series of exclusive Post reports.
The next day, at least a dozen skin merchants stood outside different storefronts to lure clients, according to a 27-minute YouTube clip with the caption “Still Here!”
This week, The Post again toured Roosevelt Avenue, where one bold sex worker wearing a furry white jacket and pink dress whispered in a reporter’s ear: “F—k f—k, one hundred dollars.”
Later that evening, several X-rated coworkers were out in the 34-degree cold luring customers even as cops manned a mobile command center 200 feet away.
00:05
04:04
“[Police] stop them on Monday, and then they start again on Wednesday,” said one 45-year-old clothing store manager, who declined to give his name for fear of retaliation.
“The police officers here, they have to … keep constantly doing their job [addressing prostitution]. It cannot only be one time.”
4Bold sex workers propositioned a Post reporter just 200 feet from an NYPD mobile command center.J.C. Rice
4Jackson Heights locals fretted that police’s recent brothel raids have done little to quell the illicit sex trade in the community.youtube NYC Backstage
Sarah Gil, 21, a server at La Pequeña Colombia restaurant, fretted that the ongoing influx of migrants to the Big Apple is challenging to the city’s mission to clean up the sex strip.
“I’m going to have faith [in the city’s efforts], but a lot of immigrants are coming here, especially from Venezuela,” Gil said, echoing Mayor Adams’ comments from November on the source of the area’s surge in sex work.
“There’s always gonna be prostitution on Roosevelt Avenue.”
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Democratic Councilman Francisco Moya, whose district includes Jackson Heights and Corona, claimed that a long-term plan was underway to address the illicit sex trade in his district.
“What we’re doing here is truly creating the beginning of a real crackdown on these establishments,” Moya said, insisting that police and the feds had “multiple ongoing investigations” into the brothels, but declined to provide further details.
4Councilman Francisco Moya (D-Queens) said law enforcement was conducting investigations into other brothels in the area.youtube NYC Backstage
4An NYPD spokesperson said that the dozen storefronts shuttered during last month’s raids were still subject to court-ordered closures.J.C. Rice
“Those that operate these types of establishments, beware. We’re coming to close you down.”
An NYPD spokesperson said that the dozen storefronts shuttered during last month’s raids were still subject to court-ordered closures, and anyone who entered them would be arrested and prosecuted.
They added that police are investigating other illicit brothels throughout the Roosevelt Avenue area and looking to shut them down them via the city’s nuisance abatement law “as soon as possible.”
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