Brown has lived at 14th and Hudson Sts. Now people are being held up, apartments are getting broken into. There were more police in the area and a lot more of them on foot.
They worked with the neighbors on the Sixth Precinct Community Council. The crackdown that Cornwell spoke of came after years of complaints against loud groups of prostitutes by residents and businesses in and around the Meat Market.
Yet the change happened only on the heels of the growing economic boom in the neighborhood. Still, this is a fact that Cornwell can swallow easily. The streets are now parking lots for the clubs. The people leaving the bars are noisy, but they at least eventually drive home. The development of the Meat Market has really helped diminish the hooker trade. Now I see two or three or four out on the streets instead of 20 or 30 or Where have the transgendered prostitutes gone?
Bob Gormley, district manager of Community Board 2, said that all the development around 14th St. David Poster, president of the Christopher St.
Patrol, a neighborhood anticrime watch organization, agreed that a real problem is being pushed south into the residential Village. There will be groups of five, sometimes Poster agrees there has been a lot of police intervention over the past five years, but says even that attention cannot completely discourage the prostitutes from working the Village.
