Sunday’s Post reported the latest degradation to befall Gotham: an open-air sex market along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
After a night-time visit, Mayor Eric Adams vowed a crackdown on what hookers dub the “Market of Sweethearts,” but it hasn’t happened yet and he’ll be fighting the progressives the whole way.
Locals are furious at the scores of scantily clad streetwalkers brazenly soliciting male passersby on sidewalks teeming with kids, shoppers and legitimate shopkeepers.
Brothels are posting ads on YouTube and even recruiting kids to pass out flyers.
“The police do nothing — nothing!” fumed Anna Garcia, a clerk in a cellphone store.
The cops won’t bother because the politicians demand a permissive approach. Lawmakers water down the laws; prosecutors won’t prosecute.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez stopped prosecuting persons arrested for sex work in 2020; then-Manhattan DA Cy Vance joined in the next year.
Queens DA Melinda Katz wants to target sex trafficking, which is fine enough but won’t protect the neighborhood’s quality of life.
The Legislature repealed the state law against loitering for the purpose of prostitution in 2021; now Queens state Sen. Jessica Ramos has bills to decriminalize prostitution and even legalize the sex trade.
Queens City Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán is pushing to legalize sex work and ban landlord discrimination against hookers (sorry, other tenants!) plus have taxpayers fund a “sex-worker opportunity program.”
And Gov. Kathy Hochul just announced two state-funded programs to provide free health care for “sex workers.”
Whether it’s rampant shoplifting that’s turned drugstores into war zones, dangerous madmen roaming the streets and subways or metastasizing open-air brothels, New York electeds keep enabling the forces of disorder.
Voters who want to stop their neighborhoods from going down the toilet need to send radicals like Cabán and Ramos packing so the other pols finally get the message.