Some Queens residents call for policing as sex work gets more visible on Roosevelt Avenue
Residents in Corona, Queens are growing frustrated that sex workers solicit passersby on Roosevelt Avenue despite a recent police crackdown.
“Once we shut one down, it’s so easy to open another location literally next door,” NYPD Capt. Stanislav Levitsky said. “It’s not a big loss for whoever’s running the operation. Just a temporary setback.” Police then serve these closing orders, as they did alongside Mayor Eric Adams earlier this year. But the legal process takes several months, Levitsky said.
“If we spent less money on the NYPD and more on helping people be able to eat and have a safe place to live, there probably would be less sex work happening,” she said. While some Queens residents said they empathized with migrant sex workers, others like Lourdes Osorio have a zero-tolerance policy.
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