Flushing Leader Martha Flores-Vazquez Leads Motorcade Against Prostitution on 40th Road

The goal here is to eliminate the prostitution, particularly on 40th Road because it's a business community and it's spilling over into bigger problems like the children being affected by the prostitution in front of their playground, the Long Island Railroad. People are congregating there and they're drinking, they're hanging out with the prostitutes. They're sort of like making it look like a bad community to visit. and we have a lot of people that come to Flushing just for part of their tourism guide so we don't want that here we definitely don't want that. We shut down the garage today so it shows that is that and uh but we want it to be shut down permanently so what we said today here is that there's a 10-day notice because we're going to take a lot more action after After 10 days. 10 days past, it's sort of like you've gotten a 10-day notice to evict you from the community on 40th Road, 41st Avenue. We don't want this here anymore. We are affected by it, the community is affected by it, the business community is affected by it, and it's just not a nice thing to come to Flushing because we have good food, we have good neighborhoods, and then they come and this is what they find. That's not who we are. That's not who we are, so we want to represent the best quality of life to the community and to the public that comes here to visit us. It has persisted time and time again because they have not taken a stance to go forward with giving services. As a remedy for those who are human trafficking others. They have not given a remedy to the women that are being exploited. And they don't have a way out. They feel that they don't have a way out, but they have a way out. And they need to know that their way out is by joining forces with us, walking away from it, and then we can protect them. Those exploiters that are out there, it is not fair to the community. It is not fair to women that they're exploiting and it has to come to an end. It has to stop. So it's gone on for a long time because there are also elected officials that are pro prostitution, that are pro legalizing prostitution. And legalized prostitution is not the remedy. It's not the answer to the problem. The answer to the problem is to put an end to it. To go after those who are exploiting the women and to give women the treatment and the services that they need. The specific actions are to also engage now the Attorney General. As I understand, there might be a program in the Attorney General's office. We've already reached out to the DA's office. The DA's office was here today. They were here the last time and the time before. So we know that Melinda Katz's office is with us. We also know that Grace Meng is also someone that is watching what's going on and Because she has an open ear to everyone. So basically, we're hoping that we're having Grace Meng as an open ear. With engaging the Attorney General because we already have the support of the DA's office. And with the community coming together and other non for profits and other leaders are coming together. And they're saying we stand with you because we are stronger together. That's roughly about it. Okay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .