The Market of Sweethearts has nothing on Brooklyn’s seedy Penn Track. East New York’s notorious open-air sex market has seen an explosion of scantily-clad prostitutes in the area near Pennsylvania Avenue, prompting a local pol to plead for cops to crack down as parents are forced to shield their children’s eyes and residents wake up to used condoms scattered across their condo parking lots.
“We need the same attention the police department is paying to Roosevelt Avenue, to bring it out to East New York . . . to help address the issue,” City Councilman Chris Banks told The Post.
The Post encountered nearly a dozen skimpily-dressed hookers Wednesday night, standing beside parked city Sanitation and semi-trailer trucks along Georgia and Malta Avenues, bringing sleazy drivers to a stop and even jamming up traffic as they chatted up potential johns.
“You’d like to hang out?” one prostitute, who wore black platform boots and a tiny skirt exposing most of her derriere, asked a Post reporter.
After offering sex for $120 or oral for $85, she advised, “I know a spot we can go,” before being turned down.
Another woman on the block promised a good time in the backseat of the scribe’s Chevy Malibu for $140.
“You don’t have tinted windows? We’re going to have to fishbowl it,” cooed the sex worker, who wore thigh-high boots along with a red-and-black leather jacket.
Longtime locals bemoaned brazen prostitutes hawking sex in broad daylight, less than four blocks from PS 306.
Through Oct. 27, police have made 18 prostitution-related arrests along the Penn Track, including 12 for patronizing prostitutes, compared to 19 during the same period in 2023, with 16 johns being busted. During this time period in 2022, just four arrests were made in the area, all for prostitution.
Migrant women staying in nearby shelters are believed to be fueling the prostitution surge at Penn Track, historically the domain of young black sex workers, Banks and a women’s advocate said.
