February 9, pm Updated February 9, pm. Hookers were back to their old tricks Saturday in Flushing, just days after cops padlocked an illicit sex den on a block littered with eight brothels. The working girls crossed the street to avoid the heat, setting up shop on the opposite side of 40th Road, where they offered themselves to a Post reporter.
An Asian woman who called herself Sissy led a reporter by the hand to a fifth-floor room at 40th Road, thrust her hips at him, made a motion referencing a sex act and patted her groin. The reporter said he was nervous and left.
Police promise us they are going to close more in the next couple weeks. They padlocked an alleged house of ill repute at 40th Road on Wednesday night. After the NYPD shuttered 13 alleged brothels in the first half of in Flushing, it padlocked just four in the second half of the year. And not one closure involved The Track, despite a surge of community complaints. Advocates who assist the women say pimps in that Red Light district use threats and coercion to keep them from leaving.
Cops have said they planned to reduce arrests of prostitutes after working girl Yang Song jumped to her death in during a police raid on 40th. Read Next. This story has been shared 59, times. This story has been shared 21, times. This story has been shared 15, times. View author archive email the author Get author RSS feed. View author archive Get author RSS feed. Name required. Email required. Comment required. Inside Queens' hidden sex district.
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