Residents, merchants fume as prostitutes continue to openly sell themselves

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Residents, merchants fume as prostitutes continue to openly sell themselves in NYC’s seedy red-light district

By Jared Downing and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
July 30, 2023

Angry residents and workers Sunday decried the hordes of hookers brazenly peddling themselves on a Queens street, where it was business as usual the day after The Post exposed the rampant illegal trade.

“The police do nothing — nothing!” fumed Anna Garcia, 42, who works at a cell-phone store along the seedy stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Corona dubbed the “Market of Sweethearts” by the prostitutes.

“Drugs, prostitution, alcohol — it’s terrible,” she said of the flagrant “underground” red-light district taking over the neighborhood filled with families with children.

Residents in the sex-plagued section said the scantily clad streetwalkers even proposition children — and yet cops spend more time hassling street vendors than the prostitutes who have flooded the once-peaceful block.

“I have younger kids,” said mom of six Maria Valle, 40. “One is 14, one is 8, and one is 5. And these girls, they try to pull them in and sell them their services. Even the kids! They’re really forceful about it.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/30/residents-shops-fume-over-nycs-seedy-market-of-sweethearts-red-light-district/