Prostitution in NYC’s ‘Market of Sweethearts’ prompts tours, protest

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A popular YouTube channel has begun offering virtual tours through the city’s “Market of Sweethearts” along Roosevelt Avenue, where rampant open-air prostitution persists.

Meanwhile, a group of angry moms will lead a protest march against the skin merchants on Sunday.on “The NYC Walking Show,” a channel that offers first-person tours of iconic Big Apple neighborhoods and attractions such as Yankee Stadium and Times Square.first posted on Aug. 20 features scantily-clad women soliciting outside storefronts and massage parlors, and has already amassed more than 636,000 views.

“On the other hand it very really eye-opening that this is what actually happens outside all those glamorous parts of New York,” added Razwan, 24, of Jamaica, Queens. A group of concerned mothers plan to march through Queens Sunday to urge lawmakers to clean up the neighborhood.Local moms are mobilizing to push the city to shut down the brothels — which have, except one, all continued to operate since The Post’s July 29 cover story.

“We are going to keep fighting because we are very worried about what children face now,” said Guadalupe Aguirre Gomez, the coordinator of Community of Young Values and Principles who will be among those leading the march that begins Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. at the post office at 37th Avenue and 78th Street in Jackson Heights and ends at Corona Plaza.said days after the Post exposeThe NYC Walking Show recently posted two virtual tours walking down Roosevelt Ave — during the day and one at night.

“In the last three or so months I’ve heard [about prostitution] more than I ever have,” said Queens Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol. “In the 20 years I have been doing this, prostitution was never this big of a factor.”

 

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