Mayor Eric Adams has blamed the rise in prostitution in Corona, Queens, on the influx of Venezuelan immigrant women struggling to find other work.
The Democrat said Tuesday that “illegal” activity is occurring in the area and that it is just “one example” of how the country’s immigration crisis is affecting the city.
It is unclear whether these Venezuelan immigrants are being sexually trafficked to perform these acts or whether they are soliciting sex of their own free will.
But, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Adams said: “This is what happens when you create an atmosphere that people can’t support themselves: you can’t work, you can’t maintain employment and you have to resort to illegal activities”. to do it”.
“When I talk about the growing impact of how this will affect our city, this is what I mean,” he said. “We are going to create generational problems from the failure of the national government, and this is an example of that.”
Adams added that another of these red light districts has emerged in East New York, Brooklyn, where, he said, prostitution is “open during the day.”
In recent months, sex workers have lined up along Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens. For the New York Post New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed on Tuesday that many of the prostitutes are Venezuelan immigrants. For the New York Post
He then harshly criticized city officials who “believe it is a victimless crime” and are trying to legalize prostitution.
“This is where idealism collides with realism,” he said.
“Some elected officials have told me that women are simply trying to work [and ask]’Why are you trying to hurt them?’”
But, the mayor said, “there are real problems around illegal sex work, not just from STDs to sex trafficking, the involvement of girls in it and violence.
Residents have compared the street to Bangkok’s red light district. New York Post
“So people who don’t understand how serious this is are impeding our progress,” Adams said of city lawmakers pushing for the legalization of prostitution.
He added: “We need a real partnership to prosecute prostitutes, we want to focus on the prostitutes and we want to focus on providing assistance to those sex workers to make sure that they are not forced into this activity, but also look at the law.”
Under New York law, prostitution is considered a Class B misdemeanor and is punishable by up to three months in jail and/or a fine of up to $500.
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Meanwhile, patronizing a prostitute is a Class A misdemeanor and punishable by up to one year in prison and/or a $1,000 fine.
But the law has not yet stopped these Venezuelan immigrants from soliciting men on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, which The Post exclusively revealed in July had become an open-air market for sex dubbed the “Love Market.”
The women could be seen loitering outside pool halls, dentists and massage parlors day and night, and even recruited neighborhood children to hand them their X-rated business cards, concerned mothers told The Post.
He appeared twice in September on “The NYC Walking Show,” a YouTube channel that offers first-person tours of iconic Big Apple neighborhoods and attractions like Yankee Stadium and Times Square.
“I was just shocked by what is happening in broad daylight,” said Sifat Razwan, the YouTuber behind the channel. “It’s even more serious than during the day.”
“Besides [is] “It’s really eye-opening that this is what really happens outside of all those glamorous parts of New York,” added Razwan, 24, from Jamaica, Queens.
Women could be seen loitering outside pool halls, dentists and massage parlors day and night. For the New York Post It is not clear whether these women are being sexually trafficked or if they choose to prostitute themselves to earn money. Seth gottfried
One resident even compared the neighborhood to the Thai capital’s red-light district, which has earned a reputation for having prolific and cheap sex workers.
“But this doesn’t look like New York anymore,” Ramsés Frías told the Post. “It’s like Bangkok, the red light district. “It’s like a market in a Third World country.”
“We don’t want to have to walk through our streets walking through garbage,” Frías added. “We want to walk like New Yorkers, with our heads held high.”
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