Originally named “Street of the Grasshoppers,” Los Angeles’ Figueroa Street has earned a new nickname: “Kiddie Stroll.” 

Figueroa, now “one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States,” is nightly lined with “preteens … hobbling in stilettos and G-strings,” according to The New York Times Magazine. 

The Los Angeles city attorney dubbed Figueroa “Kiddie Stroll” in 2023, reports author Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, “because so many of the girls weren’t even 13.” Locals call the 50-block stretch of Figueroa notorious for prostitution “the Blade.” (RELATED: INGERSOLL: That’s It, Trump Needs To Invade LA)

The prostitution on Figueroa is so pervasive you can go on google streetview and see them standing on the corners in the middle of the day.

Like many awful things in this city, nobody cares. https://t.co/qXczg7aU9e

— Keegan – Smartest Boy Urbanist™️ (@keegan_tweets) October 27, 2025

Nunn spoke to Ana, a 19-year-old prostitute who had begun selling her wares on Figueroa at 13. The Blade was never busier, Ana said, never younger. And never more violent.

“Ana had seen the Blade expand from three main intersections of Figueroa to more than three miles. She had met girls brought in from the East Coast and the Deep South, and there sometimes seemed to be four times as many minors as before — easy to spot by their over-the-top makeup and unsteady gait. The police helicopters Ana used to notice hovering overhead with search lights seemed to become infrequent. Eventually, she said, they disappeared completely.” 

The 77th Street Division had long been plagued by Figueroa’s prostitution problem, according to Nunn. 

“But in recent years, the........

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