On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Corona, blocks away from the colorful bustle of Roosevelt Avenue, about 20 people gathered suddenly in front of what appeared to be a nondescript spa that had opened recently inside a shuttered tax preparation business.

They were there to protest.

“Our community is being destroyed by prostitution,” Restore Roosevelt Avenue Coalition spokesperson Rosa Sanchez said in a speech in front of the building. Situated next to a bakery, the site at 96-15 37 Ave. was largely unadorned aside from a handwritten address and generic spa imagery.

A press release for the rally said the building houses a brothel. Sanchez said that her group fielded complaints about the building from people living in the apartment house across the street. In front of the apartment building,

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