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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Sean Bell’s Fiancée Considering Run For City Council Seat

The paper quoting a report from the political newspaper and website Politico said that Nicole Paultre Bell was considering the pursuit of the Queens City Council seat that became open when Councilman Thomas White died last Friday.
Paultre Bell lives in Far Rockaway with her 2 children, but not in White’s former district.
She must accumulate signatures on a nominating petition before the November 2 election, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.
Sources said advisers were meeting with Paultre Bell Friday to discuss the possibility of running, Papa reported.
Bell, who was 23, died in a hail of 50 bullets on November 25, 2006, around the corner from a Queens topless bar where he had just had a bachelor party and where undercover police were investigating complaints of prostitution.  Bell was to marry his fiancée later that day.

See the full article from “CBS New York”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Should Real Housewives Star Danielle Staub Join the Cast of the Jersey Shore?

The infamous MTV show the Jersey Shore was brought up by Andy Cohen during part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. While other members of the cast seemed to agree that this other infamous New Jersey based show shed a bad light to the Garden State, Danielle seemed fine with it.  And with her behavior on her current show, perhaps she would fair better by running with the young and tougher crowd. She could be a den mother of sorts. Danielle could teach the girls some moves of the stripper pole and spend her days flirting with all the boys, especially the Situation. She would deem them all Danielle Mafia worthy. And she could pass on all her wacky wisdom in a way that only those over the top reality stars could appreciate and apply.

See the full article from “Babble (blog)”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Ground Zero mosque: The facts

First, the facts: The organization that will own and operate the “Islamic Cultural Center,” first known as Cordoba House, has not as yet been formed. Although it is claimed by many that both Christians and Jews serve on the board of directors, the reality is that the corporation, which is planned to be tax-exempt under IRS rule 501(c)3, does not yet exist. The man alleged to be the main planner, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, will be one of only 22 planned board members, according to developer Sharif el-Gamal who purchased the land (with an existing building that will be demolished) for Cordoba House with cash. Sharif el-Gamal, who is 37 years old and just a few years ago was waiting tables at a restaurant in New York City, refuses to reveal who furnished the cash to buy the construction site. He has been arrested numerous times on assault charges as well as soliciting for prostitution. El-Gamal is also delinquent on payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars of property tax on the building to be replaced by the Ground Zero mega-mosque.

See the full article from “WND.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Filling the House: Cherry Jones Stars in Mrs. Warren’s Profession on Broadway …

In 1902, in his “Author’s Apology” about the play, Shaw wrote, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession.
“…Play Mrs. Warren’s Profession to an audience of clerical members of the Christian Social Union and of women well experienced in Rescue, Temperance, and Girls’ Club work, and no moral panic will arise; every man and woman present will know that as long as poverty makes virtue hideous and the spare pocket-money of rich bachelordom makes vice dazzling, their daily hand-to-hand fight against prostitution with prayer and persuasion, shelters and scanty alms, will be a losing one.”

See the full article from “Playbill.com”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Victory Mosque Removal

Instead, I urge you to consider turning the site into a center for interfaith encounter. Build the mosque—but do so together with a church and a synagogue and a center for common reflection for all three faiths and for those with no faith. Do this, Imam Feisal, not to surrender to your critics but to honor their pain, and, in the process, to honor Islam.
In the abstract, such a center would be a wonderful idea. Is it “better” (from the standpoint of interfaith healing? From the a general social utility view?) than the current blueprints? It’s hard to say, though I suspect that, under whatever standard that labels such a center superior to Park 51, that same center would be a “better” usage for nearly any parcel of land publicly or privately developed in New York City (those strip clubs spring immediately to mind). And I maintain that, if the purpose of the community center is to serve the Muslim community in Southern Manhattan, it kind of misses the point to relocate the center to

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Mosque Is Already There

It is my understanding that a mosque currently exists and has been at its location, four blocks from ground zero, before there was a World Trade Center, which now is trying to build an Islamic center for the mosque, not a new mosque.
I have been to a few Islamic centers that were similar to fellowship halls that usually are next to or near churches. The new Islamic center will house a gym and a large kitchen where they hope to give culinary training to people from the neighborhood. I do not know how many of you have been to this part of New York, but in proximity to the proposed location and even closer to ground zero, as I recall, there is an Irish pub, a McDonalds, a Burger King, the New York Dolls Gentlemens Club, the Pussycat Lounge and many sidewalk street vendors.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Former Prosecutor and Regulator Sees Office as the ‘Great Leveler’

In 1999, Mr. Dinallo was hired by Mr. Spitzer to run the attorney general’s investor protection bureau.
Mr. Dinallo said the biggest accomplishment of his years as a public servant remains the 4 1/2 years he worked with Mr. Spitzer. Mr. Spitzer brought cases against Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citigroup and other investment houses for faulty analyses, conflicts of interest and other financial irregularities in an era when Mr. Dinallo said federal regulators were “asleep at the switch.” The financial giants paid $1.4 billion in settlements.
“I think my work on Wall Street cases and my reinvigoration of the Martin Act helped transform that office into the powerhouse you see today,” Mr. Dinallo said.
He said Mr. Spitzer, whose 15 months as governor ended in a prostitution scandal in 2008, was a “terrific” attorney general.

See the full article from “New York Law Journal”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Police shut down house of prostitution; neighbors shocked

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Police shut down house of prostitution; neighbors shocked
A man empties the trunk of his car following a two-week vacation. Next door, a couple work on their garden and across the street a statue of the Blessed Mother sits on a front lawn. It’s suburbia on Commonwealth Avenue in Massapequa—except for the house of prostitution around the corner.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Theater Listings: Sept. 3 — 9

… Trust’ Paul Weitz’s slender comedy about domination and worthlessness — as literally embodied in sadomasochism — feels like a series of New Yorker cartoons that never quite leave the drawing board. But there’s smooth and gutsy acting from Zach Braff, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster and Ari Graynor, directed by Peter DuBois (2:00). Second Stage, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton , (212) 246-4422, 2st.com. (Brantley)20100902
‘Viagara Falls’
In this ill-advised geriatric comedy, Lou Cutell and Bernie Kopell play widowers in their 70s who invite a prostitute over for what they hope will be a night of sex, aided by Viagra. The jokes are generally pale and obvious, the crassness level is high, and no one looks comfortable, especially not Teresa Ganzel, who has the thankless job of playing the prostitute (1:30).

See the full article from “New York Times”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Daily News Gleefully Confronts Pol Over Sin City $$

Adam Clayton Powell IV, who is trying to unseat embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, was caught taking thousands of dollars of campaign donations from the owner of Bronx strip club Sin City. The Daily News confronted and browbeat Powell into promising to return the money yesterday, telling him about owner Konstantine (Gus) Drakopoulos, who pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2002 and was recently slapped with a racial and sexual harassment suit by dancers at his club.
“Wow,” Powell repeated six times, “I don’t want to hear any more. Jesus Christ, that’s quite a resume…I’m going to return the money. I want no part of anybody like that.” Drakopoulos claims he gave Powell five $1,000 donations this spring, though Powell says there were only three checks, which he said he returned Wednesday. The News sounded even more excited than that time the “bumbling New York Post reporter was busted”.

See the full article from “Gothamist”

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