By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2024-11-20 17:32:07 | Updated at 2024-11-21 12:54:23
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A view of women believed to be sex workers or prostitutes as they stand in front of storefronts on Roosevelt Avenue between 89th Street to 91st Street in the Corona section of Queens, NY.
Photo/For the New York Post
New York’s traffickers and pimps have gotten so bold they’re running a whorehouse across the street from a kids’ museum — and advertising it on TikTok.
Outraged locals in Corona have been begging the city to shut down the brothel operating in plain sight of the Queens Hall of Science.
They’re right, obviously: The NYPD ought to end this obscenity — yesterday.
That the city tacitly let brothels thrive for so long up and down the Roosevelt Avenue corridor in Queens is monstrous.
But this is a family-centric museum where kids go to learn about planets, dinosaurs and basic chemistry and physics.
And it’s blocked from not one but two elementary schools.
Letting pimps, hookers, and johns — who’ve reportedly been urinating in public and threatening locals — run wild where kids throng is beyond the pale.
In the words of local leader Hiram Monserrate, “Everyone has failed us. Every single elected official — the NYPD, the state, the governor, everyone has failed us.”
Yes, the NYPD again has to clean up a mess made by others: The explosion of such brothels, staffed by sex trafficking, is driven by the Biden border disaster, by New York’s own insane “sanctuary city” rules and by our progressive overlords’ insistence on treating illegal migrants as privileged guests.
But New York’s Finest — coupled with the State Police that Gov. Hochul has sent in to help handle Roosevelt Avenue — need to extend their cleanup operations beyond the “Market of Sweethearts” at the core of the red-light district.
Even if the cops are stuck playing whack-a-mole for now, until Team Trump can get federal enforcement rolling.
That’s the hope: The incoming administration has promised to end the inflows with real border enforcement and to deport the millions here illegally.
And it’s beyond damning of New York’s political class that Queens residents (and sex-trafficking victims!) can’t be sure of lasting relief until the local establishment’s designated devil takes power.
