Posted on 04/19/2025 7:58:13 AM PDT by Libloather
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., privately jets across the nation for her "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, residents in her Queens constituency have been calling on the FBI and the DEA to help them crack down on the illegal sex workers and drug dealers that they say have turned their neighborhood into a festering "gangland."
Last week, local leaders, including a former Democrat state senator, wrote to FBI Director Kash Patel urging him to unleash agents to quell the raging problem along Roosevelt Avenue – a 2-mile commercial strip which has been likened to both a Third World Country and a Red Light district – where scantily-clad women on sidewalks soliciting sex is commonplace.
They also claim the ruthless 18th Street Gang has taken over illegal operations there, filling the void of other gangs like with Tren de Aragua after a massive police operation saw hundreds of people arrested.
That police crackdown, which started in October and was labeled "Operation Restore Roosevelt," saw hundreds of city and state troopers descend on the neighborhood. The NYPD told Fox News Digital that the clampdown has resulted in a 37% year-to-date drop in crime in the Roosevelt Avenue zone with more than 1,800 arrests and more than 15,000 summonses.
Residents and local activists heaped praise on New York City Mayor Eric Adams after he spearheaded the aggressive 90-day police blitz.
But locals say the blitz was short-lived and bars have been turned into makeshift brothels where a dance can easily be negotiated into sex in dingy rooms downstairs. Many of the sex workers are migrants, the leaders said.
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Bars have been turned into makeshift brothels.
What bars did AOC work at asking for a friend.
Is this Roosevelt Ave in Woodside, Queens?
I believe it was the Coffee Shop in Union Square. I used to go there once in a while back in the day.
Roosevelt Ave runs from Long Island City to Flushing. The area in question is from about 82nd street to 103rd street (Mostly Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona).
Where is this exactly in new york?
Wow. I lived in all those areas. Worst was Corona. Jackson Heights was where I was born but did not grow up there. NY really so changed for the worse.
I lived in Corona until 1980. Go to Youtube and enter Roosevelt Avenue in the search area. There’s lots of videos that show what it’s like now.
Saw. Unbelievable. I was there in 75. Maybe we passed each other in the street at some point 😊
Coffee Shop cute name sounds like what Capone named them.
The better course is to move to America. AOC land has resigned from America
We probably rode the 7 train at the same time too.
Yes. I was on that every workday. You must’ve worked in Manhattan, me too.
3rd ave and 54th street. A little place called Malcolm and Hayes. Made plaques and scrolls for the U.N.
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