Scandals Strip Club Takes NYC to Court

It's getting so you can't make a sleazy living in this town anymore: Scandals strip club in Long Island City (conveniently located at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge, no cover before 8 p.m.!) is taking the city to court to fight zoning changes forcing the establishment out of the neighborhood. According to court papers obtained by the tabloids, the lawsuit accuses the city of relentlessly shrinking the 21 districts where strip clubs can legally operate.

These "special districts" include residences where "adult businesses" can't operate within 500 feet. Scandals' lawyer Joan Toro says the club has already been forced to move twice, and now they're being run out of Long Island City on a pole, er rail. "This would absolutely shutter them," Toro warns the Daily News, "If people want to get lap dances, they should be able to get lap dances." Isn't this is what our nation's Founding Gentlemen fought for?

But an attorney for the city claims the zoning laws were found to be constitutional 10 years ago by the Court of Appeals, and he's "confident that this latest challenge has no more merit than the cases previously rejected by the state's highest court."

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By John Del Signore in News on March 17, 2010 12:55 PM

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Wza

City should just create a red light district.

40oz.killa

have you ever been to k-town on 32nd ave?

Cannibal

I mean, its called Scandals.

longacre

Rudy Giuliani has a question: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/914

P.S.: Remember the days before YouTube when Flash animations were the coolest thing?

Tower18

Those zoning laws should apply to NEW strip clubs, but if they create a "special district" that infringes on where a strip club ALREADY EXISTS, forcing them to move, that's messed up. They should be grandfathered in.

That's like building your house next to an airport, that has been there 50 years before you, and then complaining about the noise.

Jen S

That neighborhood (if you could call it that) has been transformed from a creepy intersection to almost livable. Sorry Scandals, maybe try around Citi Field?

virgilstarkwell

$400? i would've thought twenty bucks and a bottle of popov's.

can't one easily get the whole thing for $400 or less?

JenChungsBaby

That's what the rest of us said. For $400 outside the club he could have had an hour of whatever he wanted. But this guy was shlubby and fat, and the girl was superhot. He basically paid to rent the Presidential Suite for seven minutes. He even had to borrow the cash, going around to people in the party to scrounge the money. Pretty sad.

lmd

...and thus unemployment skyrocketed amongst Ambers, Crystals, Chastities and Savannahs.

wonderchimp5

you've obviously never been to scandals. It's more like Svetlanas, Viktoriyas, and Anyas

JenChungsBaby

I was there once for a bachelor party around five years ago and let me tell you, if you like it when hot chicks in g-strings grind themselves hard on your private parts then Scandals is an excellent place to get a lap dance. I would like to file an amicus brief in this case in support of the club.

Just an FYI -- one guy we were with paid $400 for a hummer in the back room from one of the eastern European ladies who work there. So if they were getting shut down for prostitution, then I'd have to agree with the City on this.

lmd

Nyet, have not been.

Kojak

"If people want to get lap dances, they should be able to get lap dances."

Such bravery in the face of sheer prudes. Fight the good fight Joan. You have my support