Archive for January 26, 2012

Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Return of Young Jeezy

… m at a studio on the west side of Manhattan, where Young Jeezy is scheduled to shoot a music video. It’s dead quiet: White guys in streetwear are walking softly around editing suites; a flat-screen is noiselessly flashing the DVD menu page for Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Then Jeezy rolls in. He sets himself up in a fluorescent-lit conference room, where an on-call barber has been waiting. And while Jeezy’s draped in a “BET Hip Hop Awards 2011″ barber cape, a swirl of activity — a circle of publicists, stylists, and cronies — forms. Along with a string of other reps, Def Jam senior VP Shawn “Pecas” Costner is trying to talk Jeezy into attending a party later that night. Apparently, there is some high-level exec whose ass has to be kissed. Jeezy brushes this off, and rattles off an amusing story about a particularly hood strip club in Detroit in which he partied last night. The punchline: “So I quit drinking again. This morning.” Ne …

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Notorious Brooklyn Navy Yard Dive Replaced by Dunkin’ Donuts and Subway

J.J.’s Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, a century-long tenant (famous dubbed “the scariest bar in Brooklyn” by the Times) at the corner of Flushing Avenue and Washington Street across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the main entrance to Steiner Studios until it was closed and promptly gutted in the fall of 2010, will soon be reborn as the newest locations of chain “restaurants” Dunkin’ Donuts and Subway.
Mehrdad Shariati, whose family bought the building for $2 million in June 2010, tells the Brooklyn Paper:
It’s now going to be beautiful and fancy and nice. [...] The bar is gone but I’m trying to bring the best retail and restaurants.
In addition to those purveyors of donuts and foot-longs, other possible tenants for the glassy, ground-floor retail space include “IHOP or high-end eateries a la “Times Square.’”
Navy Yard watchman of 24 years Jean Alcidas, a former patron of the dive bar and strip joint, welcomes the new food options. “J.J.’s had a lot of pretty, half-naked females, and it was fun. [..] But Dunkin’ Donuts is better for me than a strip club.”

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Manhattan Escorts: Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

In a New York Times column that begins with the horrifying story of “Baby Face,” a 13-year-old runaway forced into prostitution by a pimp who advertised her on Backpage.com, Nicholas Kristof assails Village Voice Media, which owns the classified ad site, for profiting from such crimes. He quotes Brooklyn prosecutor Lauren Hersh, who says “Backpage is a great vehicle for pimps trying to sell girls,” and sums up the situation this way: “When Baby Face ran away from her pimp and desperately knocked on that apartment door in Brooklyn, she was also in effect pounding on the door of the executive suites of Backpage and Village Voice Media. Those executives should listen to her pleas.”

As Daniel Fisher points out at Forbes, the reality of sex marketing is more complicated than Kristof admits. While Craigslist no longer has an “adult services” section, for example, thinly veiled sex-for-money ads have migrated to the “personals” section, where they are harder to monitor. “Want to find more professionals quick?” Fisher writes. “S …

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Manhattan Escorts: How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls

How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls

On Backpage, the pimps claim adult ages for the girls they market, but Hersh scoffs. “I see 19,” she said, “and I immediately think 13.”
“I’m not seeing a lot of cases where there’s not coercion,” she added. “The average age where a girl is forced into prostitution is 12 to 14. And most of these 16- or 17 year-olds are being run by pretty vicious pimps.”

When Baby Face ran away from her pimp and desperately knocked on that apartment door in Brooklyn, she was also in effect pounding on the door of the executive suites of Backpage and Village Voice Media. Those executives should listen to her pleas.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on January 26, 2012, on page A31 of the New York edition with the headline: How Pimps Use the Web To Sell Girls.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: From strip bar to strip mall — Navy Yard pub to become Dunkin’ Donuts, Subway

… J.J’s had a lot of pretty, half-naked females, and it was fun,” said Alcidas. “But Dunkin Donuts is better for me than a strip club.”

Dave from Park Slope says: Quote of the year: “Dunkin’ Donuts is better for me than a strip club.”I’m pretty sure that Brooklyn now has all the Subways and Dunkin’ Donuts it needs. And then some.Today, 9:53 amMoses from Park Slope says: “Scantily clad” would not be hyphenated, while “19-century homes” should be.On a larger level, I don’t really get this story. The bar was closed. So Dunkin and Subway aren’t the gentrifiers. Anything is preferable to a shuttered store. The question is, who did the landlord get interest from? Sounds to me like no one wanted the location.Also, it’s funny that no one in the story backs up the reporter’s assertion that the bar was a den of sin. In fact, the only person quoted on the bar itself says that it’s reputation was exaggerated.Today, 10:44 amphoenix says: At least …

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: ICE Agent Honored for Exposing Sex Trafficking

For the past five years Rod Khattabi’s work as a federal agent has taken him through the sewers of child pornography, the degradation of teenage prostitutes and the horrific sexual abuse of Haitian and South African children in humanitarian programs.
Each time, Khattabi has come back with evidence to arrest and convict people like Edgardo Sensi, who with his girlfriend made child pornography of sexual encounters with the woman’s 8-year old daughter in Fairfield County; Corey Davis, of New York; Theodore Briggs, of Norwalk, for running separate prostitution rings involving teenage girls; Douglas Perlitz, who admitted abusing Haitian street boys in a program he designed to feed, educate and clothe them; and Jessie Osmun, a Peace Corps volunteer from Milford, now under arrest for abusing girls as young as 4 in a South African HIV-encampment.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Giants Great Lawrence Taylor: ‘I Had No Discipline’

… Nowadays, you guys are on 24-hours-a-day so everything that happens is actually exploited a little bit more or is blown up a little bit more and more people know about it,” Taylor said. “So now you have to really discipline yourself. For years, I had no discipline. I could do what I wanted to do as far as playing in New York.”
Taylor was sentenced in March to six years’ probation under a deal to plead guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute. In November, he was sued by the teenage girl he admitted having sex with in the case that led to his guilty plea to misdemeanor charges earlier this year.
Taylor said when he pleaded guilty that the girl told him she was 19. His attorney said Taylor “did not intend to patronize a prostitute who was under legal age.”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Nyack-Piermont Patch Time Lapse: 18 Months in 40 Seconds

Nyack-Piermont Patch has been covering the region’s news, culture and sports for about 18 months, reporting on everything from local business and new infrastructure to astonishing protests and prostitution rings.
Above, you’ll find the past 18 months compressed into a neat 42 seconds via sped-up screenshots. It goes by quick, but it’s easy to discern trends. The Tappan Zee Bridge and foul weather—from Hurricane Irene to October 2011’s freak snowstorm—are often above the fold.
National events are worked in, too, but on local levels. You’ll see Osama bin Laden stories, because an Upper Nyack man helped dozens escape to safety from the Twin Towers on 9/11 at the expense of his own life. Gadhafi’s death is highlighted, too—a West Nyack family lost a son when the late Libyan dictator orchestrated the Lockerbie bombing of 1988.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor says he still makes a lot of bad …

Taylor was sentenced in March to six years’ probation under a deal to plead guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute. In November, he was sued by the teenage girl he admitted having sex with in the case that led to his guilty plea to misdemeanor charges earlier this year.
Cristina Fierro filed suit in federal court in New York. She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages to be determined at trial. Fierro was 16 when the crime occurred in May 2010. She made a statement outside his sentencing hearing in March saying he deserved jail time.
The Associated Press does not normally publish the name of accusers in sexual assault cases unless they agree to be named or identify themselves publicly, as Fierro has done.
Taylor said when he pleaded guilty that the girl told him she was 19. His attorney said Taylor ”did not intend to patronize a prostitute who was under legal age.”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: ‘I had no discipline’ Lawrence Taylor speaks about his life with Showtime

Taylor was sentenced in March to six years’ probation under a deal to plead guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute. In November, he was sued by the teenage girl he admitted having sex with in the case that led to his guilty plea to misdemeanor charges earlier this year.
“Nowadays, you guys are on 24-hours-a-day so everything that happens is actually exploited a little bit more or is blown up a little bit more and more people know about it,” Taylor said in remarks released by Showtime. “So now you have to really discipline yourself. For years, I had no discipline. I could do what I wanted to do as far as playing in New York.”

Taylor said when he pleaded guilty that the girl told him she was 19. His attorney said Taylor “did not intend to patronize a prostitute who was under legal age.”

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