Pros­ti­tu­tion Is Boom­ing In Mamdani’s New York City

New York City May­or Zohran Mam­dani admires for­mer May­or Bill de Blasio’s soft stance on pros­ti­tu­tion, and the city is now feel­ing the con­se­quences.
Pros­ti­tu­tion-relat­ed arrests along Queens’ noto­ri­ous Roo­sevelt Avenue have fall­en sharply, and local lead­ers say the sex trade there is flour­ish­ing. A 40-year-old Man­hat­tan man iden­ti­fied only as John told the New York Post he glad­ly rides the sub­way out to the stretch known as the “Mar­ket of Sweet­hearts” because prices are low and police, in his telling, can do lit­tle to stop it. Along the cor­ri­dor, sex work­ers report­ed­ly solic­it passers­by open­ly. New York repealed its law pro­hibit­ing loi­ter­ing …