(FamilyConservationPAC.com) – A crime-ridden section of Jackson Heights, where prostitutes openly solicit and bold shoplifters wreak havoc, has deteriorated further since The Post exposed the issue nearly five months ago.
Roosevelt Avenue near 91st Street in Queens, which has been plagued by an illegal open-air migrant market and dozens of sidewalk sex workers, now reportedly has twice as many sex workers pacing the block, according to locals.
Locals reported that thieves have become so bold that they now threaten to seek revenge on merchants if caught.
Seedy NYC street overrun with hookers and thieves gets even worse — with prostitutes doubling in 2 months https://t.co/VSmQRwgw5x pic.twitter.com/aHmeSFfGUi
— New York Post (@nypost) September 1, 2024
“It’s getting worse,” said Jesus Diaz, manager of Bravo Supermarket on Roosevelt Avenue. “It used to be when we catch them stealing, they’re saying, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, please, I’ll never do it again.’
“Now, they’re getting angry. They’re trying to punch you, telling you, “You’re going to have a problem,’ telling you, ‘We’re coming back and you’re going to have some real trouble,’” Diaz said.
“You call and tell the cops that you caught them stealing and that you’re holding them waiting for them, and the cops, they don’t even want to come; they don’t want to arrest these people,” he added.
Meanwhile, the “Market of Sweethearts” that has flourished on the block has doubled.
“Too many beautiful ladies standing outside my door,” a jewelry store owner in the neighborhood said. “I just asked them not to stand directly in front and block the door. What can I do?”
“Too much ladies in front of my door. This is not like before. Before it was very clean here.”
She added, “There is the brothel across the street and then the brothel behind us here. Everyone knows.”
The Post reported on the problematic block in April when residents and storeowners alike complained about migrants ripping off their stores and then hawking the hot goods on the sidewalks outside.
Stolen goods, ranging from power tools to mouthwash, are available at a discount—and the retailers cannot do anything about it, so they gripe.
Meanwhile, sex workers cruise the block, approaching potential customers as they stroll by and hopping into make-shift brothels inside local apartments when they land a john.
Merchants were fuming when The Post returned for a second look in July.
“The police do nothing — nothing!” a worker at a nearby cellphone store said then. “Drugs, prostitution, alcohol — it’s terrible.”
They were still up in arms on Sunday.
“People don’t want to come to the pharmacy because of the sidewalks here,” Mi Pharmacia pharmacist Jenny Leal said, pointing to the more than 50 illegal vendors set up along the block.
“The cops come, do sweeps. Two weeks ago, two Sundays ago, the police came and cleaned them out, and no people were here the last Sunday. But look, today, all the people come,” she said.
“The number of prostitutes have doubled in the last two months,” Leal added. “They’re starting to act like they are part of the community now. We see them every day.”
Roosevelt Avenue in NYC has turned into a red-light district stretching thirty blocks, where kids pass by brothels daily on their way to school. pic.twitter.com/3NtyF2RC5p
— upside down world (@upside_dow2032) August 27, 2024
Is this what liberals want to turn their cities into?
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