He gives kudos to crime prevention!
Mayor Adams stopped to raise eyebrows on Friday as he sought to show that it had been ‘cleaned’ of rampant prostitution and illegal traders during a tour of a notorious Queens Street.
“I look even better than when I walked in,” Adams said, looking in a mirror at Manat Beauty Salon in Jackson Heights.
Hizzoner was in the middle of a stroll through the once crime-ridden stretch known as the “Market of Sweethearts” on Roosevelt Avenue, between 95th and 103rd streets, when he stepped into the salon for the hair-raising makeover.
The notoriously dashing pol leaned back in a chair as a worker performed the trendy procedure – which involves removing unwanted hair with a twisted thread – and then moisturized his eyebrows, video shows.
When asked when the last time he had his eyebrows waxed, Adams said, “I usually do it myself.”
“I only do mine because if you mess them up it takes weeks for them to grow again,” he added.
Prostitution in the area first started raising eyebrows among neighbors during the pandemic, when there was an explosion of sex workers and their johns.
“All these prostitutes showed up out of nowhere,” said Massiel Lugo, 32, a high school teacher who lives near Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights.
“The summer was very depressing. There were twenty prostitutes in one block. And unfortunately that brings crime because it involves a lot of men who don’t even live in the area,” said Lugo, who works at Leonardo Da Vinci Intermediate School.
“I couldn’t even walk down the street with my children. It felt very unsafe,” Lugo said.
But a recent police crackdown in the area resulted in 891 arrests in a roughly two-month period, 118 of which were related to prostitution, according to the mayor’s office.
In October, Governor Kathy Hochul also deployed state troopers to help take control of the sloppy strip, which then had “more brothels than bodegas.”
“They absolutely did a great job. As you can see, there is not a single prostitute to be seen,” Lugo said during the tour on Friday.
Adams vowed to “remain vigilant” about reducing crime in the area.
“We’ve made a lot of progress here,” Adams said. “People told me that when I came here at 1am and 2am in the morning, they said they wanted this area cleaned up and we are doing that.
“We will remain vigilant,” he said. “We’re going to stay tuned here because what I saw today was a big difference from what I saw the first time I walked down Roosevelt Avenue.”
During the walk-through, Adams paid $4 to get his eyebrows done and left a good tip, a salon employee told The Post.
