A crime-infested stretch of Jackson Heights β where hookers openly ply their trade and brazen shoplifters run amok β has gotten even worse since The Post blew the whistle nearly five months ago.
Roosevelt Avenue near 91st Street in Queens, which has been marred by an illegal open-air migrant market and dozens of sidewalk sex workers, now has twice as many hookers pacing the block, locals say. What can I do? This is not like before. Before it was very clean here. Everyone knows. The Post reported on the problematic block in April , when residents and store owners alike complained about migrants ripping off their stores and hawking the hot goods on the sidewalks outside.
Stolen goods ranging from power tools to mouthwash are available at a discount β with the retailers unable to do anything about it, they griped. Meanwhile, sex workers cruise the block, approaching potential customers as they stroll by and hopping into makeshift brothels inside local apartments when they land a john. In July, when The Post returned for a second look , merchants were fuming. Two weeks ago, two Sundays ago, the police came, cleaned them out and no people were here the last Sunday.
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