SoVo.com – By Laura Douglas-Brown
The Midtown Ponce Security Alliance’s efforts to improve the neighborhood risk being overshadowed by increasingly vigilante tactics.
The latest salvo in what could be dubbed the ?Midtown Prostitution Wars? might be funny if it weren?t also potentially dangerous, to those on both sides of the contentious debate.
But first, a recap of the battle lines: On one side are some outspoken Midtown residents in the Midtown Ponce Security Alliance, who are understandably fed up with all manner of street crime in their neighborhoods but have focused on what they derisively dub ?transvestitute? sex workers.
On the other side are a handful of transgender and queer activists who want to help the transgender prostitutes find legal employment, rather than simply harass them from one area to another.