...in front of Convenience & Grocery, a 24-hour deli precariously plopped on one corner, a woman paced back and forth. She picked up the pay phone for a minute or two, paced some more, and then exchanged sideways glances with a man who got intimate with the phone booth, as if feeling around for a quarter he had dropped.Hookers' Hangout: Ozone Park is plagued with ‘working girls’
Dee Bhoj watches this scene unfold everyday, though hardly through rose-colored glasses. As a manager at Convenience & Grocery, Bhoj can look out from his perch behind the register through the scratched glass door plastered with lotto and newspaper decals. He sees two or three prostitutes during the day, and said there are nearly a dozen who hang out in front of the store at night.
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Yet another community in Queens vibrant and revitalized under the tender meries of the machine.
Its funny. Walk around Manhattan. Walk around Brooklyn. Compare those places to ten or twenty years ago. A bodega becomes Zabars.
Walk around Queens. A Zabars becomes a bodega....
I love hookers! Thanks for the tip!
I often walk up to Liberty Avenue and 93rd Street (a few blocks from my home) after midnight for cigs or milk and I have never seen any hookers up there...I did my own checking today and asked many of the storekeepers if they've ever seen hookers and not one has...I think this is derelict and irresponsible reporting by the Queens Courier...It seems their reporting doesn't always match their eye-catching front page headlines...it's a shame they feel the need to besmirch a neighborhood for their own purposes...
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