He gives a pluck about crime prevention!
Mayor Adams stopped to get his eyebrows “threaded” Friday while on a tour of a notorious Queens street he aimed to show had been “cleaned up” of rampant prostitution and illegal merchants.
“I look even better looking than I did when I walked in,” Adams said, while glimpsing in a mirror at Manat beauty salon in Jackson Heights.
Hizzoner was doing a walk-through of the once-crime-infested stretch known as the “Market of Sweethearts” on Roosevelt Avenue, between 95th and 103rd streets, when he popped into the salon for the hair-raising makeover.
The notoriously swagger-filled pol reclined in a chair as a worker performed the trendy procedure — which involves removing unwanted hair with a twisted thread— then moisturized his eyebrows, video shows.
Asked when he last had his brows 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 back,” he added.
Prostitution in the area first began raising, well, 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 middle school teacher who lives near Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights.
“The summer was very depressing. There were 20 prostitutes on one block. And unfortunately, that does bring in crime because it was bringing in 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 the streets with my kids. It felt very unsafe,” Lugo said.
But a recent police crackdown in the area yielded 891 arrests during a roughly two-month period, 118 of which were prostitution-related, according to the mayor’s office.
In October, Gov. Kathy Hochul also deployed state troopers to help take control of the sleazy strip, which then had “more brothels than bodegas.”
“They’ve definitely done a great job. As you can see, there’s not one prostitute in sight,” Lugo said during the tour Friday.
Adams vowed to “stay vigilant” about reducing crime in the neighborhood.
“We’ve made a lot of inroads here,” Adams said. “The people told me, when I came here at 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. in in the morning, they said that they wanted this area cleaned up and we’re doing that.
“We’re going to remain vigilant,” he said. “We’re going to stay on top of this because what I saw today was a stark difference from what I saw the first time I walked along Roosevelt Avenue.”
During the walk-through, Adams paid $4 to spruce up is eyebrows and left a good tip, a salon worker told The Post.
