Say you're looking to impress your date. Take her somewhere real nice. Somewhere upscale, romantic. Might we suggest the Penthouse Executive Club? Why, it's the third most expensive restaurant in the city, and at least someone is guaranteed to put out. more ›

The city often uses tax breaks as incentives to entice businesses (and the jobs they provide) to stay in town, which is how they were able to keep Jet Blue here. In this way, the tax breaks are like the city's desperate pleas during pillow talk, the equivalent of Mayor Bloomberg cooing breathlessly in the ear of his paramour would-be investors. Taken in that light, it's completely appropriate that several high-end nudie bars have been getting such tax breaks under an obscure property tax exemption. more ›

Big news, gentlemen: Real estate investor Robert Gans, who also owns the Penthouse Executive Club over on the west side, has purchased the Scores West building on 28th Street. The club closed last May after a prostitution bust cost owners their liquor license, and it's currently closed for renovations. The Observer reports that Gans bought it at a discount, paying $9.58 million—half a million dollars less than the previous owners paid. And it's going to be just "grand," at least according to a "club insider" who got all nostalgic on an industry message board: "The owners of Penthouse want to bring back the old glory days of lap dances, bringing back the celebrity draw, the great customer service, drop-dead beautiful girls, and just a rip-roarin' great strip club experience... Additionally there will be a dress code, so again, it keeps out the bums." Ah, the glory days. This is the same Scores where Owen Wilson rode his bike, where Lindsay Lohan pole danced! Why, just think of the history on those poles. more ›