New Gage Motel

"The Figueroa Street corridor has faced serious problems of drug and prostitution for years, and residents have had enough. People living and working along Figueroa Street in South LA say the prostitution problem has gotten out of hand. Residents are frustrated with the young women offering their services as sex workers along a stretch of motels, often in broad daylight. Police and other city leaders say this is part of the decades-long prostitution problem in the area. The LAPD said the areas between 104th and 92nd streets are the hotspots for hundreds of prostitutes, day and night. The Community Coalition group says they are fed up with crime in their neighborhood and want 12 motels along the stretch of Figueroa shut down (between Gage and Century). Los Angeles City Council President Pro Tempore Marqueece Harris-Dawson responded, saying that the city has sent the New Bay Motel a revocation notice, the Palms Motel has been demolished, and the city filed a lawsuit against the New Gage Motel for being a sex-trafficking hub."