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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.

The east side Scores will pick up its crumpled dollar bills and jiggle into history by the end of the year, the Daily News reports. It's not quite clear if this means the entire Scores chain, which includes clubs outside of New York, is going down, but a lawyer for the owners says, "It's over; it is what it is."

Over 70 exotic dancers are joining a lawsuit against Scores. Last year, a former bartender sued the pleasure palace chain, claiming that management wouldn't give workers their fair share of the club's "Diamond Dollars" payment plan. The lawsuit claims club charges customers a 20% fee for every $100 in Diamond Dollars purchased and when workers redeem their Diamond Dollars tips, the club keeps 10%. The NY Post, which calls Scores "the mammary mecca," reports a judge wants both sides to settle. The plaintiff's lawyer said, "These workers made a lot of money for Scores. Now they're just asking for what's rightfully theirs."

A former Scores dancer has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the club alleging all sorts of mistreatment while she worked there back in 2005. In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Ruth Fowler says that the club pressured dancers into having sex with upscale clients as well as managers. Scores has denied accusations that prostitution took place in the club since having its liquor license revoked in March after police found dancers having sex for money on the premises. Among other claims, the NY Daily News reports that Fowler alleges "her audition lasted just 30 seconds while dancers who managers had no intention of hiring were forced to bump and grind for 20 minutes" and that "a manager once smeared a steaming hot steak over her face." Earlier this summer, Fowler published the memoir No Man's Land about her life as a stripper.

Yesterday a federal judge threw out a lawsuit from the famous strip club Scores that accused the state of harassment after revoking its liquor license this past May. The State Liquor Authority ordered that drinks stop being served at both Scores East (which filed the suit) as well as Scores West, the Chelsea location where dancers were allegedly getting paid to do more than just give lap dances. Scores will have to take its case directly to the SLA in order to get its license back. The club, best known for being championed throughout the years by Howard Stern, accuses the city of fabricating prostitution charges in order to take away their first amendment right to have topless dancing.

The Politicker has this hilarious photograph outside the East 60th Street location of strip club Scores touting a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket, as well as John McCain-Michael Bloomberg one. Nice to know that even though manager Harvey Osher and owner Richard Goldring failed to pay $3.1 million in taxes, they still believe in the democratic process. (Osher is serving weekend stints in prison; Goldring is getting probation.)

The city’s food charities are dealing with dire shortages this year, exacerbated by cutbacks in federal food aid. Many places like St. Benedict the Moor Neighborhood Center in the South Bronx are almost barren; according to today’s Times, the center’s pantry used to be stacked up to the ceiling with food but now holds just “a few sacks of potatoes, some cornflakes, juice and peanut butter.” To help fill the void, City Harvest, the non-profit...