STATEN ISLAND -- A bill that would legalize prostitution in New York will not be getting the green light from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

With the 2019 legislative session quickly coming to an end, Cuomo said Monday he had yet to review legislation that would allow for paid sex between consenting adults, a bill that opponents say would protect against human trafficking, coercion, and sexual abuse of minors.

“I have not read the bill. And I don't believe at this stage in the session you can pick up that bill, educate yourself on the issue, and have reasonable conversation,” Cuomo said Monday on WAMC radio. “That will go down on one of those controversial items list. Guns, reproductive health, et cetera. You can put right up there legalizing prostitution. I don't think people are going to do that on 48-hour notice.”

The bills have only been introduced to the legislature, which is scheduled to wrap up its session June 19.

In an op-ed published by the New York Daily News in February, the bill’s sponsors Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Queens), said undocumented Asian women working in dubious massage parlors are some of the people most at-risk by the underground nature of the sex trade.

Staten Island too has had its own issues with massage parlors.

The shops front as legitimate massage parlors, but provide sex services inside. Previous reports done by the Advance cited multiple criminal complaints and suggestive advertising on a site called BackPage.com as evidence.

Federal authorities seized and shutdown that website, but impersonators have popped up in its place. The NYPD has repeatedly cracked down on the parlors, but they have continued to pop up in new locations.

In March, Assemblyman Michael Reilly (R-South Shore), who worked as a police officer, said in the years he spent enforcing prostitution offenses during the 1990s put him in direct opposition to the senators’ proposal.

According to the city’s open data portal, Staten Island has seen just six arrests related to prostitution this year as of May 16. Three of the arrests came January 5, two came February 9 at the same location, and one came February 10, according to that data.

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