From WPIX:
NYPD officers arrested 19 people in a prostitution crackdown on various “day spas” and “massage parlors” in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, authorities announced Thursday.
“In this case, there were 19 massage parlors in a relatively small area,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “Now we know that the people of Bay Ridge have back pain, but we don’t think it’s enough to sustain 19 massage parlors.”
The arrests come after a year-long investigation that began after neighbors complained of “suspicious and disruptive activities,” according to the D.A.’s office.
“I hope that these arrests will send a message not only to the communities of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge, but throughout Brooklyn, that I share their concerns regarding these purported “day spas” and “massage therapists” and we will not tolerate illicit operations that exploit women and blight neighborhoods,” said D.A. Hynes.
The bust was the culmination of a joint investigation by the Kings County District Attorney Special Investigations Unit and the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Vice Unit. Using undercover detectives, surveillance and search warrants, the operation revealed “substantial evidence of prostitution” and a string of work-related and zoning law violations.
The arrests included both workers and owners at 12 different establishments.
16 comments:
A "Day Spa" located next to a bodega is just too obviously suspicious. The city needs to investigate this....and Flushing definitely needs a good look. Do community boards have any oversight on this?
This is Floo-shing where the 109th PCT gets paid or laid (or both) to look the other way.
In Bay Ridge the old mob still rules.
What they say goes, or they take care of business themselves (if they're not part of that business).
I Ruv Frushing.
Flushing has a huge prostitution and drug (cocaine) selling issue in a number of massage parlors. Illegal human trafficking and young "girls". C reating adficts who turn to sex and violence and destroy communities/homes. Precinct knows who they are. There must be a way to crackdown on these illegal businesses. We need to yell louder to be heard and let justice prevail.
Damn Flushing makes Jamaica look good.
They are now on Queens Blvd and Grand Ave. Didnt know the chinese had such a need for massage.
Wonder what would happen if people were just allowed to sell whatever services they wanted to sell.
It's funny that sex for money is legal, as long as you film it.
It's funny that sex for money is legal, as long as you film it.
Only if they're both consenting adults. Some of the "girls" in the massage parlors are not adults - and if they were trafficked and being kept against their will, they're not consenting.
Have you ever seen the pictures of the women busted in these places? Most of them look like they haven't been girls for 30 or 40 years.
Again another example of the A...holes from the 109th looking the other way. These massage parlors are making their way from Main Street all the way down Northern to Douglaston....There is no denying it our neighborhood is gone. Why bother complaining nothing is being done, money talks and the rest of us just bitch. Why bother complaining when these politicians don't listen to our complaints, they just pacify us during election year, when elected they go back to satisfy the developers and their pockets.
It is time to write to the Queens district attorney, INS, DEA and let them know who the culprits are. The names of these women, massage parlors, addresses and phone numbers where illegal activity is taking place in Flushing must be provided to the heads of those units. I cared enough to create a movement and know that someday justice will be served.The POWER of one can go a long way!
Only if they're both consenting adults. Some of the "girls" in the massage parlors are not adults - and if they were trafficked and being kept against their will, they're not consenting.
Except that they are, as another commenter pointed out, well into their 30s and 40s.
The problem in downtown Flushing is that the Chinese all mind their own business and look the other way because they all do shady dealings.
In Flushing everything is "cash only" -- you know almost every business down there is shorting the government with their income filings.
And the non-Asians have abandoned Flushing -- it is just too deep in the muck to even start reporting things. The 109th only focuses on serious crime and the plethora of violations in plain sight are ignored. Peter Koo is a pro-business former Republican turned "Democrat" so he says nothing.
For as annoying as Liu and Meng were, they would at least try to address quality of life issues. But now that downtown Flushing is so saturated with Asians there is no constituency that these lawless venues bother.
I don't go near downtown Flushing anymore. I take the train 10 minutes extra from Briarwood rather than be packed into smelly Flushing's 7 train.
My hope is that south Brooklyn doesn't make the mistakes Flushing residents have as their neighborhoods become saturated with Chinese. Flushing is a lost cause.
FYI:
A former councilmanic chief of staff in Flushing, tried to bring the issue of proliferating whore houses to the attention of CB#7 about 20 years ago.
They were told that about 41 brothels were operating under the very noses of the 109th PCT at that time.
CB#7 took no action ...asking where he got those figures.
The COS responded, "From the 109th's own statistics".
"Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown".
Let's stop thinking it is someone else's issue to raise. Here is an example of how it can all end. Enough is enough with the aFlushing brothels.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9177261
Local police have learned from other law enforcement personnel that Flushing is where many victims of human trafficking pass through. See
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_23203997/police-seek-woman-ties-spas
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