Scandals Strip Club Takes NYC to Court

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Written by: 195 on Mar 17, 2010

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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