Queens neighbors beg NYC to shut down suspected brothel operating across from science museum

This is not the biology lesson parents want for their kids.Some angry Queens residents are calling on the city to padlock a suspected brothel brazenly operating across the street from the family-friendly New York Hall of Science museum.The spot — operating from a family home on 111th Street in Corona – even advertised on TikTok a year ago and is blocks away from a notorious drag known as the “Market of Sweethearts” where prostitutes prowl and illegal vendors sell merchandise on the street.“Sometimes the customers are urinating and threatening some of the local residents,” said Carlos Zapata, a 63-year-old resident who lives blocks away.“That’s why a lot of residents didn’t come today because they fear reprisals,” he added at a news conference calling attention to the alleged sleaze.“They even leave their condoms here on the street.

I have grandchildren.What happens when my grandchildren come out to play? I need to pick it up every day, the plastic liquor bottles and the tequila bottles.”The NYPD and state police are cracking down on the lawlessness at the nearby “Market of Sweethearts” along Roosevelt Avenue after a push by locals and reports in The Post — but this brothel a bit off the beaten path is flourishing and neighbors are fed up.“We have no place for this type of foolishness.

Enough is enough,” said Corona native Jonathan Carson.“I see men of all races and types all day and night going in and out … There’s no other building having people coming in and out like that.”Carson said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz should “stop seeing sex workers as victims and prosecute them as criminals” and added that sex trafficking is a federal crime.The brothel is just blocks from PS 28 and PS 14, said Maria Giraldo, 48, who lives around the corner from the brothel.“Please shut this place down,” Giraldo said.“There are kids and mothers walking through here to drop off their kids and the kids see people comin...