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Well, it was a matter of time before hookers have been reclaiming the streets in Hell's Kitchen - also known as "Clinton" especially when it comes to brokers. And what an assignment for reporters and photographers - observing "dozen of the hard-working, high-heeled hookers strutting up and down West 47th and 48th streets between Ninth and 11th avenues." And if you're thinking the Post could have mistaken provocatively dressed women for hookers, how many provocatively dressed women approach cars like in this picture?
There's also a quote in particular that shows how gentrification doesn't like a neighborhood's past:
But baby-carriage-pushing moms en route to a local playground at 8 a.m. say they now see some skin dealers openly working overtime - sometimes until 11 a.m.Right - "asses hanging out" is another way to tell if someone is a hooker. Other neighbors complain that the pimps are problems too, and put them all together and there's shouting and fighting. The police say they are working on the problem, but no word on whether or not the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association or local community board is on the case yet."I walk out of my building in the morning to see these girls with their asses hanging out," said Kimberly Solop, 34, who shares a $3,000-a-month two-bedroom on West 48th with her husband and their 2-year-old son, Simon. "I don't want him growing up looking at that," she said. "It's a lot of money to be paying to have this activity going on."
We once saw ice cream walking around Hell's Kitchen. No joke.
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Frankly, I like the hookers. They provide great services for competitive prices.
Damn straight. I like the logic of those parents: what better place to raise your kids than right next to the Port Authoirty?
Where the hell do these people come from?
You know, it's hard out here for a pimp.
I used to live on W. 47th Street and would find the ladies of the night in broad daylight. I kinda have to say I respected them some for all the hustling they do. I take the hookers over yuppy mom types any day.
I find it funny that the mother who is talking about whores has a last name that if said in a French context would mean whore itself: Solop (salope) haha :)
Listen, I don't blame anybody for not wanting their kids to be around the sex/drug trade. But this:
"I don't want him growing up looking at that," she said. "It's a lot of money to be paying to have this activity going on.""
is absolutely ridiculous. Move to the suburbs, for Christ's sake, if you can't handle the unseemly aspects of living in an urban environment. There's no shame in that - people do it all the time. You have the best museums, restaurants, career opportunities, etc., in New York, but all of that comes at the price of shared space.
Caveat emptor folks -- did you need to buy a clue from Pat Sajak on what the neighborhood was all about?
hookers in your hood? no prob... the city won't bother fixing that. But complaints of loud gay clubs and dealers at other bars, underage drinking? now that requires numerous sting operations and closing down of legitimate businesses!!!
long live the hookers!
I used to live on 47th between 9th and 10th and it never felt like "near the Port Authority" or any of the other crap the know-nothing commentors above have said. My neighbors had kids and it never seemed like a bad place to bring 'em up.
However, there was often a bunch of strange-acting skanky types hanging around the deli on the corner of 10th. I used to go in for Gatorade after a night out, and there was always something funny going on.
Let there be more hookers! They're pretty much minding their own business, but their presence will scare away timid, Midwestern newcomers. This will eventually cause apartment prices to drop. Yes!
Go back to Ohio, Interlard!! How could you not think of the Port Authority when you look down the street and see the 10,000 humongous viaducts that cover 8th-11th ave down from 48th street? You're not next to them, but you're at least a 5 minute walk, or 10 minutes in pimp-walk time.
If you watched Fox 5 you should've heard these people who complained - they had that untainted breathy, New England / Midwest accent and the vacant stare of a thin-blooded and world-inexperienced Vassar grad.
Good times.
I can't tell hookers from MySpace girls anymore
haha
dumb yuppies
btw
i went to vassar
that place was FULL of morons such as said woman
anyhoo
tee-hee-haha
welcome to nyc
suckers!
I saw three hookers last night - two at Jane and 8th Avenue and one at 14th Street and 7th. In case anyone cares.
this brings a tear to my eye, it's like it's 1988 again when I helped my sister move to an Apartment on ninth ave and 48th street.
The more things change, the more they'll stay the same.
I can't wait to hear my nephew ask me in a whisper "is that a hooker?". From the mouths of babes.
Can we bus some down to the LES around Houston and Allen, too?
They need to get a closer look, many of these "ladies" of the evening have a little thing we like to call a Y chromosome, especially by 11th ave.
paying $3K a month and living with hoes. boo hoo, ya dumb yuppie broad.
Kimberly Solop 34 who is paying $3000 a month for a 2 bedroom apartment gets no sympathy from me. Hells Kitchen used to have affordable housing on the West Side. Now the yuppies have messed it up. It is a war against the middle class. Let's have hookers on every corner if it will bring the rents down. Plus Kims' husband might be sneaking out for a midnight interlude on the down low lol!!!