New York Strip Clubs: Better pay up: Bklyn’s tax delinquents put on parade

Brooklyn is known for many things. Now it’s known for harboring the state’s biggest tax debtor.
Irving Bilzinsky, a proud son of the borough of churches, was named the state tax department’s enemy number one.
Bilzinsky, a resident of Montauk Court in Sheepshead Bay and the former owner of the Scores strip club in Manhattan, owes over $15 million in back taxes between 2007 and 2009, according to a list of New York’s top 250 delinquent tax payers that was made public for the first time last week in a new shame campaign to recoup unpaid taxes.
Bilzinsky and Scores went bankrupt back in 1998. The taxes he owes are his individually, as well as back taxes from his popular flesh flashing joint never paid, officials said. Attempts to reach Bilzinsky were unsuccessful as this paper went to press.

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New York Strip Clubs: Nilaja Sun to Be Honored at soloNOVA Arts Festival

Works included in the festival, which runs May 5-22, will also include Binding, conceived and performed by Jesse Zaritt, directed by Basmat Hazan; Monster, written by Daniel MacIvor, directed by Steve Cook, and performed by Avery Pearson; Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail, written and performed by Erin Markey; Remission, written & directed by Kirk Wood Bromley, performed by Daniel Berkey; Rootless: La No Nostalgia, written and performed by Karina Casiano; The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, created and performed by Tim Watts; The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour, written and performed by W. Kamau Bell, directed by Paul Stein; and Wanted, written and performed by Shontina Vernon, directed by Kamilah Forbes.

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New York Escorts: Call girl Natalia: "The dollars made me hot!"

The man didn’t hesitate and straight away offered the sexy Canadian a job at his escort agency, NY Confidential. The starting pay was $700 – a huge amount of money to her.
It was a tempting offer for the completely broke actress even if she did see herself as an “inexperienced sex bourgeois”.
She nevertheless said yes, but on one condition: “If it gets disgusting, I’m never doing it again.”
But she soon realised that she really had fun in her new job. “It turned me on to sleep with famous men.”
And that soon wasn’t enough for her: “When I came home I switched on a porno and masturbated for hours. If a client cancelled at 2am, I prayed for another booking.”
Natalie was soon the star of the escort agency – in spite of her small boobs. Her customers swarmed onto website TheEroticReview.com to praise her skills.

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New York Strip Clubs: Neighbors claim ’sex toy seller’ turned condo into an extreme party spot: suit

By DAREH GREGORIAN
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3:14 PM, March 10, 2010
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1:27 PM, March 10, 2010
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A Manhattan businessman has transformed his basement Tribeca condo into an “extreme party” spot — complete with “fire massages,” “flame feats” and a “stripper pole,” court papers charge.
In a bid to avoid possible legal liability for the bacchanalian bashes, the owner, James McGown, transferred the deed for the apartment to his six-year-old daughter, Annabelle, his disgusted neighbors claim in papers filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court.
McGown bought the basement unit at 109 Reade St. in 2006, and secretly switched the deed over to his daughter a year later, the suit says.
He then stopped paying condo fees and his mortgage papers, and in November of last year, leased the space to a tenant named Dimitri Dimoulakis, the filing says.

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New York Strip Clubs: Bell’s Dad Wants to See Officers in Shooting Testify

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  — A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday gave the city until May to decide whether they will represent the three NYPD detectives charged in the wrongful death lawsuit of Sean Bell.
The judge rejected the city’s request for a six-month postponement of the civil suit filed nearly three years ago.
 
The case was put on hold while the three officers faced criminal charges and a civil rights investigation.
Juliet Papa reports
Officers Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver were acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting that killed Sean Bell outside a strip club in 2006 while leaving his bachelor party on what would have been his wedding day. 
Bell’s two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were also injured in the shooting.
The detectives are defendants in the federal lawsuit.
City attorneys say departmental action is pending for the officers.
Bell’s father William wants to see the three officers testify. “They got to say what they did,” he said outside the court Wednesday.
Attorney Michael Hardy says the officers will have to confront every issue that happened the night of the deadly shooting.

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New York Strip Clubs: Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud

Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud
NEW YORK
The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.
Martina Duran and Robert Arias were each ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after being charged with larceny, identity theft and other crimes. The pair owned Club Kalua, where Bell’s bachelor party ended in tragedy in 2006.
Undercover detectives investigating reports of prostitution at the club killed the unarmed Bell and wounded two friends in a 50-shot barrage after following them outside. Three officers who claimed they believed the men had a gun were later acquitted of manslaughter.
Prosecutors in the fraud case allege Duran and Arias were part of a $2 million scheme to use stolen identities to buy and sell three properties. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with Duran’s attorney. Her son’s lawyer declined comment.

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New York Strip Clubs: Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup

This week Sam Sifton at the Times upgrades Strip House, the swank Greenwich Village steak house, to two stars. (The paper last reviewed it in 2000.) “William Grimes, in a review for Times that year, wrote that Strip House ‘wasn’t so much a steakhouse as a catalog of hip references to the idea of a steakhouse.’ He awarded the restaurant one star. Now it deserves two,” Sifton declares. “Age has given David Rockwell’s design for the room a kind of gravitas, and with it the restaurant has gained some of the clubby appeal you used to be able to find at places like Gino, on Lexington Avenue, which has a similar layout, or in the bar room at 21. (As at 21, there is great fun to be had in snooping about the place. In addition to portraits of Viennese strippers, torch singers and ancient celebrities on the walls, there is a signed portrait of Thurgood Marshall near the bar.)… And the food is generally marvelous, the steak often superb.”

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New York Strip Clubs: Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud

NEW YORK — The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.

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New York Adult Entertainment: The undoings of a governorship

An Associated Press report announced the same day that a group of black leaders in New York City rallied in support of the governor owning to the fact that he deserves his right to due process and should continue on in office.
Richard Reddy, sociology professor, has been closely following what he refers to as the New York State government’s “legislative and civic train wreck over the past few years.”
As to whether Paterson should resign, Reddy said, “There are some very serious charges being made about the Governor’s conduct, but, of course, technically in our legal system, you are innocent until found guilty.”
Paterson served as former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s lieutenant governor. He replaced Spitzer in the middle of his term in 2008. Involvement in a prostitution ring led Spitzer to resign and all but disappeared from the political scene.

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New York Adult Entertainment: NY Archbishop Dolan hits scandal-scarred Capitol

NY Archbishop Dolan hits scandal-scarred Capitol
(AP) ALBANY, N.Y. – New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan made his first trip to Albany on Tuesday and said the scandalous turmoil gripping the Capitol now, as it was two years ago, shows that government isn’t the savior.
It’s the first visit to Albany by a New York archbishop in 24 months, almost to the day when Dolan’s predecessor, Cardinal Edward Egan, was to meet with then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer. That meeting was canceled when Spitzer was named in a prostitution investigation that soon forced his resignation.
Now Gov. David Paterson faces two scandals that threaten his job.
“Somebody asked me yesterday, ‘What do you say to your people who seem dissatisfied, or scandalized by the political problems in the state of New York?’” Dolan recounted. “And I said maybe it’s teaching us-what we would feel is the fundamental issue in life-that government is not our savior. Government is not the messiah. Only God is. And so we should put our ultimate trust in God alone, and everyone else, we cut some slack.”

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