Landlords in NYC’s red-light district losing fight to evict brothels as alleged madams turn to courtsBy Jacob Geanous
August 5, 2023
It’s a family affair.
A pair of business-savvy sisters — allegedly running a prostitution ring along the “Market of Sweethearts” in Corona, Queens exposed by The Post last week — is using the court system against landlords trying to boot their brothels, opening one as quickly as another is shut down, according to court records.
Fengye Wu and her sister Feng Xia Wu have sued at least three landlords in Queens Supreme and Civil Courts after the landlords tried to kick the seedy bordellos out of their buildings.
The landlords were drained of thousands in legal fees while fighting in court, and they ultimately lost — one brothel was allowed to keep operating, and the other building was forced to shut down completely.
Inchul Chang, whose family owns a three-floor property off Roosevelt Avenue near Junction Boulevard, told The Post he could not have predicted the problems he was inviting into his building when Feng Xia Wu, 53, moved in in February — and can’t get rid of her or do anything stop the flow of apparent prostitutes and johns in and out of his building.
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/landlords-in-nycs-red-light-district-losing-fight-to-evict-brothels-as-alleged-madams-turn-to-courts/