A long commercial strip in New York City’s Queens neighborhood has become such a hotbed of open prostitution that when police raided a brothel there last week, the same cathouse was open for business again within 24 hours, a surprise Fox reports. News is shown through digital video.
Fox News Digital visits the cobbled strip of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens – part of which includes Democratic Squad members Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez District – to report on law-breaking behavior in the area and was conducting an interview outside a nearby brothel when an alleged sex worker and her client walked out of the building.
The building, which was a former beauty salon, appears closed due to metal shutter doors covering the storefront, but a temporary door has been cut out of it. Two CCTV cameras have been installed above.
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An alleged sex worker exits a brothel, left, A sex worker sends messages in AOC’s district. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
The woman, wearing tight gym shorts and a black top, briefly glances at the Fox News digital camera and then sprints down Roosevelt Avenue, righting herself with her young client before following him.
The woman in the video was later seen allegedly soliciting sex with other women around the corner from the Case Street brothel. It is understood that the alleged sex workers pick up clients on a busy street and then take them to the brothel around the corner, which leads into a residential neighbourhood.
NYPD It was confirmed that three arrests were made during a raid on the building on 18 September. It is not clear why it was not shut down immediately.
The woman second from the left was allegedly seen soliciting sex with other sex workers around the corner from the Case Street brothel. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
The Queens District Attorney’s Office tells Fox News Digital it is in the process of shutting down the brothel and says it understands the NYPD is separately seeking a “parallel nuisance abatement order against the establishment.”
Ramses Frias, a local resident turned activist who was being interviewed after the pair moved out, said he was not surprised that the building had reopened, noting that alleged sex workers were operating day and night. Advertise their bodies in the open at all hours. With some side effects.
,There is rampant prostitution going on in this area, especially on this corner,” Frias said. “This block itself, it’s gotten out of control and the lawlessness continues. This (raid) was conducted yesterday and as you can see, it seems it is still going on.”
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Known among locals as the “Avenue of the Sweethearts”, residents say the prostitution conditions remind them of Bangkok’s red-light district streets. Additionally, illegal vendors also cook hot food on sidewalks or sell used clothing in “third world” situations.
On one block along Roosevelt Avenue, Fox News digital cameras recorded a line of at least 19 alleged sex workers lining the sidewalk. Around the corner, there were at least seven more people, and on the next block a woman was seen soliciting sex for $60.
Frias says alleged prostitutes and their pimps continue to violate the law despite little influence, while many elected leaders do nothing to stop the lawlessness.
is prostitution Illegal in New York.
In January, the NYPD raided six establishments in the area allegedly engaged in prostitution, which were issued orders to close.
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The raid was widely publicized and caused a lot of uproar. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and local Democratic City Council member Francisco Moya were in attendance. However, the Queens District Attorney’s Office confirmed that no arrests were made, saying it was done strictly to serve nuisance abatement court closure orders, over which the NYPD has jurisdiction.
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curtis sliwaThe Guardian Angels founder and Republican mayoral candidate called it a “sham raid” and said no arrests were made.
“They didn’t arrest johns, prostitutes, madams; they never went after landlords, and they were back in business the next day,” said Sliwa, who joined Fox News Digital and Frias on a walking tour of the area. . “It would never be tolerated in Manhattan. They tolerate it because it… is a poor and impoverished area in the eyes of many New Yorkers, but that doesn’t give you any reason to allow it to exist. ”
The alleged prostitutes live on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
