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A mission for Mamdani: Rescue the trafficked women of ‘the Blade’

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Brutal pimps victimize women constantly in the Penn Track open-air sex market; human trafficking is a daily affair . . . and City Hall’s response is to have its tiny Office of Community Safety talk with the Brooklyn DA’s Office about “approaches that will deliver durable solutions.”

That was the comment Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s people provided for Megan Palin’s Post exposé on “the Blade” blocks of East New York.

It is grim reading indeed.

The NYPD sex-crimes unit and the FBI recently took down one notorious pimp: Omari “Prince” Scott, sentenced to 50 years for a host of crimes last month; two others face serious charges.

But many more remain in the streets around Pennsylvania Avenue, running strings of next-to-naked........

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