Prostitution rings increasingly enlist landlords to provide apartments for use as brothels
With the rise of gentrification throughout the city, promoters of prostitution have increasingly turned to landlords as accomplices. For a fee, the landlords provide apartments where prostitutes ply their trade.
The New York Times provided the example of a four-story building in Park Slope, where strange men constantly visited two apartments where neighbors believed prostitutes entered. In September, police broke up a large prostitution ring allegedly headed by retired NYPD Detective Ludwig Paz that used apartments in this and several other buildings.
Isaac A. Schwartz, who owned the Park Slope building as well as several others where the ring’s prostitutes worked, was charged with enterprise corruption and conspiracy but has pleaded not guilty, according to the Times.
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