A popular YouTube channel is now offering virtual tours of the notorious “Market of Sweethearts” in Queens — where rampant open-air prostitution persists despite an exposé by The Post and promises by the mayor.
Meanwhile, a group of angry moms will lead a protest march against the skin merchants on Sunday.
The stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Corona was featured twice over the last month on “The NYC Walking Show,” a channel that offers first-person tours of iconic Big Apple neighborhoods and attractions such as Yankee Stadium and Times Square.
The 32-minute clip first posted on Aug. 20 features scantily-clad women soliciting outside storefronts and massage parlors, and has already amassed more than 636,000 views.
A second video was posted Saturday showing the seedy stretch at night.
“It just shocked me what’s happening in the broad daylight,” said Sifat Razwan, the YouTuber behind the channel. “It’s even more severe than in the day.”
“On the other hand it very really eye-opening that this is what actually happens outside all those glamorous parts of New York,” added Razwan, 24, of Jamaica, Queens.
Local moms are mobilizing to push the city to shut down the brothels — which have, except one, all continued to operate since The Post’s July 29 cover story.
“We are going to keep fighting because we are very worried about what children face now,” said Guadalupe Aguirre Gomez, the coordinator of Community of Young Values and Principles who will be among those leading the march that begins Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. at the post office at 37th Avenue and 78th Street in Jackson Heights and ends at Corona Plaza.
“Queens is known as the prostitution county,” she said.
Mayor Eric Adams said days after the Post expose that he toured the area and was “putting in place an operation to deal with the sex workers.”
But in the month following that statement, just one brothel was shut down by the Queens District Attorney’s Office compared to six in two months before.
“In the last three or so months I’ve heard [about prostitution] more than I ever have,” said Queens Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol. “In the 20 years I have been doing this, prostitution was never this big of a factor.”