AOC, Grace Meng tapped to do more as open-air prostitution, rampant criminality returns to NYC's 'Market of Sweethearts'

QUEENS, N.Y. – The red lights are back flashing along a notorious prostitution strip in New York City represented by progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Grace Meng.

Along the crammed, grimy sidewalks of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens , sex workers are once again openly soliciting clients while vendors grill meats and hawk suspected stolen or counterfeit goods – despite police waging a months-long crackdown to stop the chaos.

It’s become a way of life – and a years-long blight – for residents in the migrant-dense neighborhood who say they have grown tired of calling on Ocasio-Cortez and Meng to act and liken conditions to a “ Red Light district ” or a third-world flea market.

Others have nicknamed the strip the “Avenue of the Sweethearts,” given its reputation f