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Oct 25, 2007

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new%20york%20strip%20clubs.jpgThe Big Apple may no longer be on the avant garde when it comes to the sex industry, but there's still plenty of action to be found on our streets. The same corporate dollars that supposedly "cleaned up" Manhattan often find their way to the cleavages and thongstraps of the city's go-go dancers. Today's stripper aficionado doesn't necessarily want to pay for sex like the Times Square prowlers of old. They just want to exercise their God-given right to pay exorbitant sums to have average-looking women grind in their laps until they mess their pants, bless their little hearts. Here are some of the spots you should go to watch the action, after you've already visited the Penthouse Executive Club for their fine cuisine. Follow-up fieldwork shall commence as demand and self-loathing dictate.

1

Private Eyes

320 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036

Private Eyes

This is everything a guy could want in a strip club. There are strippers aplenty, and they almost all look hot enough to "act" on low rent reality shows. Sadly, that's actually saying something! But be warned, the main room is so small that you run the risk of rubbing knees with your fellow man during lap dances. [link]

2

Sin City

2520 Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

Sin City

When you board the bus to Sin City that stops outside of Yankee Stadium, you'll quickly realize that you're on your way to a gentlemen's club where the featured aromas are latex and bodily fluids. As you arrive, you'll even more quickly realize that you're in the Bronx when the massive bouncers frisk and whisk you through a metal detector. Inside, a miniscule staff of below average looking ladies "works" the showroom. [link]

3

Flashdancers

1674 Broadway, New York, NY 10019

Flashdancers

One of the most well-known strip joint in New York, but the notoriety has more to do with their almost ubiquitous taxi-top advertising than anything else. This Midtown topless lounge is a tiny tourist trap packed with questionable wares. [link]

4

Cheetah's

252 W 43rd St

Cheetah's

New York, NY 10036]The "Tycoon Restaurant" inside Cheetah's actually serves good sushi; the chef supposedly comes straight from one of the Blue Ribbon restaurants. The Blue Ribbon menu may have more variety than Cheetah's, but here can you slurp your sashimi off a naked body. [link]

5

Scores East Side

333 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022

Scores East Side

The strip club of choice for high rollers noted for their taste in loose women, like Howard Stern and George Clooney. Scandals over alleged customer bilking and mistreatment of staff have done little to tarnish Scores' image as the premiere place to see the most beautiful and accommodating strippers in the city. As you likely guessed, there's also a Scores West Side. [link]

6

Gallagher's 2000

43-19 37th St, Long Island City, NY 11101

Gallagher's 2000

Far from the spotlight in Manhattan, Gallagher's is the best spot to catch the stars of your favorite adult DVDs. It's also reputably the best place to see nothing but girls who look like they could be porn stars. [link]

7

Pussycat Lounge

96 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10006

Pussycat Lounge

Wall Streeters fuel most of the stripping action in the rest of the five boroughs, so it's bizarre that this lounge in the center of the Financial District is as bad as it is. Rather than hedge fundies foaming at the mouth (and often crotch) in secret VIP rooms, you'll see a few bored dancers on a stage behind the bar in front of customers bewildered at having found a topless bar where no touching whatsoever is allowed. Supposedly there are cool parties on the upstairs floors, but who wants drinks and music when there are breasts being plopped on heads in Midtown? [link]

Comments

This list is far too sparse. What about Paradise lounge on 33rd? Or the former Carousel (I have no idea what the new name is) over on Barrow (or Clarkson, or whatever) and West Side Highway. And how does this list exclude Brooklyn's Sweet Cherry, lovingly known by the boroughbreds as "The Dirty Who're"

Cheetah's. Because the quality of the sushi should be the primary factor in choosing a tiddy bar. Wouldn't want anyplace smelling too fishy.

@riskybusiness: surely you didn't think that we'd be dispensing of a topic as weighty as this in only one post. don't think I've heard of the sweet cherry though i'll have to swing by.

Oh Sweet Cherry, it's in the 50's I think, in Brooklyn, close to the water/2nd Ave...I pondered seeing if I could get some work there, but then remembered my boyfriend said he'd leave me if I joined the sex trade. Oh bother.

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