Prostitution, they say, has turned this upper-class community into an open-air brothel, a place where scantily-clad women parade the streets, suspicious-looking men rove the neighborhood in unfamiliar vehicles and condom wrappers litter the sidewalk.
These days, even the children are afraid to play outside.
"I'm always feeling helpless," said Alex Sears, a mother of three young daughters who lives on Southgate Avenue. "It's an illegal activity that everybody knows is going on and nobody is...
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