A state senator is calling for the closure of a notorious Queens strip club after five women were arrested on prostitution charges, the Daily News has learned.
Sen. Mike Gianaris said the Show Palace on 21st St. near 43rd Ave. in Long Island City has become a public nuisance.
Following an undercover operation, the NYPD Vice Squad raided the club last Friday, netting the five arrests of women who allegedly agreed to have sex for cash.
The five woman allegedly agreed to have sex with an undercover officer for prices ranging from $150 to $500, records show.
“This place has been a thorn in the community’s side for years,” Gianaris (D-Queens) said Thursday.
Gianaris said he is writing a letter to the Queens district attorney’s office and the NYPD asking that the club be forced to close under the nuisance abatement law.
The club was twice denied a liquor license by the State Liquor Authority. It opted to go all nude and set its age limit at 18, rather than 21.
“We successfully got the SLA to deny them a liquor license, and they decided to be spiteful,” Gianaris said.
“People who want to drink end up drinking in the street, and that spills out into the community.”
In December 2015, Show Palace was temporarily shut down by the NYPD under the nuisance abatement law after an investigation determined marijuana and cocaine were being sold there.
There had been a drug arrest the previous February, and a week before it was shut down, there was a shooting outside the business.
The club is owned by the same group which owns the Sin City strip club in the South Bronx.
That club is currently closed; the SLA voted to revoke its liquor license in May over a range of violations. In 2016, nine strippers and bouncers were arrested for dealing drugs out of Sin City.
