Residents, shops fume as it’s business as usual in NYC’s seedy ‘Market of Sweethearts’ red-light district

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Merchants and residents along a stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Corona said the illicit sex trade continues to thrive around them with cops turning a blind eye — even after an expose by The Po…

on a Queens street, where it was business as usual the day after The Post exposed the rampant illegal trade.

“I have younger kids,” said mom of six Maria Valle, 40. “One is 14, one is 8, and one is 5. And these girls, they try to pull them in and sell them their services. Even the kids! They’re really forceful about it.” In an exclusive report Saturday, The Post revealed that nearly a dozen sleazy brothels have set up shop in the neighborhood, with the illicit sex trade spilling out onto Roosevelt Avenue near Junction Boulevard.

Cops in the NYPD’s 110th and 115th Precincts, which patrol Corona and surrounding neighborhoods, have made only six prostitution arrests this year — and no busts for sex-trafficking.

 

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