Prostitutes Returning to Flatbush Avenue?

Last year I was at O'Connor's when I overheard an old-timer talking about how Flatbush Avenue near Eighth Avenue, by the Montauk Club, used to me a major gathering place for prostitutes. It's difficult to imagine that such a highly visible, relatively upper-class location could once have been run down enough to attract that element, but it was, and not too long ago, either.

Well I'm not sure what to make of this, but a reader sent this comment into Brownstoner the other day:

Shortly after midnight on Thursday, I spotted a very sad new development on Flatbush and Dean, across from the totally deserted arena skeleton: A young pimp working with two teenage hookers. He was dressed in all white and the girls were doing their best to vamp when he got a car to stop and check them out.…It’s definitely because that whole area is deserted while every body waits for the supposed arena crowd spillover payday to open businesses there that this kind of activity could take place. It is funny because the Flatbush Avenue renovation has been heralded by the pols as the necessary upgrade of the gateway to the new, improved Brooklyn. So in addition to an arena and some planters you now get street hookers and pimps hustling.

If this is true (and it wasn't some sort of undercover sting), it's a sad development indeed.

Comments

[dean flatbush the 5th]

okay, this is creepy but not unexpected. The part of Flatbush between Dean and Pacific has some shady store fronts )emphasis on the fronts} over there. the block with the computer place, the empty boot camp fitness and such? theer is a hairdresser on that block. never see anyone in there. pass by on the weekend nights and the place has a velvet curtain on the front and a line going inside. damned undergound club! but to be on topic, there is some other weird stuff there. a few years ago there was a guy who always sat in front of that place who was too slick to be there. and one time i passed and he said " come on in, get a nice massage!" holey! that place is probably a prostitution front! look at all those businesses on that block. any of them seem remotely legit? seiously, investigate that