![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to the owners at the time of the opening, The Keep became somewhat of a local epicenter for the “Operation Losing Proposition,” the goal of which is to lock up johns as they solicit sex from undercover police officers. ![]() “They never approach any of my customers,” she said. Owner Stephanie Castillo, a native New Yorker who has been living in Bushwick for a decade, told Bushwick Daily that The Keep has generally “a fine relationship with the girls.” She added that she doesn’t think that their presence affects her business negatively. Since October 2014, a bar and antique store called The Keep has been operating on Cypress Avenue as well.īesides drinks and small plates, The Keep offers psychic readings and live music catering to the eclectic tastes of the changing demographic of Bushwick and Ridgewood. Most of the businesses on the block are old-timers such as Sze’s Garden, a modest Chinese restaurant a deli a pizza parlor or a laundromat. Today, the corner of Cypress and Starr is surrounded by a strange combination of two- to three-story apartment buildings, several small businesses as well as industrial warehouses such as Apollo, which sells windows and metal studs. Even as gentrification of the area rapidly progresses, prostitution as a symptom of the “bad old times” continues. (All photos by Katarina Hybenova)įor more than three decades now, the corner of Cypress Avenue and Starr Street has been known as one of the old-school New York prostitution hotbeds. ![]()
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