Sin City: The Bronx strip club where pretty much anything goes — for the right price

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Inside Sin City: The Bronx strip club where anything goes, by the NY Daily News

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They call it the Sin City Cabaret and this strip club lives up to its name.

Located on the other Park Ave., in an industrial corner of the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, abutting a taxi cab lot ringed in concertina wire, the Major Deegan Expressway and the Harlem River, Sin City often draws a glittering clientele.

Giants wide-receiver Odell Beckham, rappers 50 Cent and Drake and former Knick Amare Stoudemire have all partied amid Sin City's topless, G-string clad dancers. In November, a $25,000 diamond ring reportedly flew from Beckham’s finger while he was on the dance floor, never to be seen again.

In 2012, a dispute at the club between the entourages of Drake and Chris Brown later erupted into a brawl at a downtown dance spot that included shattered champagne bottles and tossed martini glasses.

Meanwhile, former club employees say the joint often draws gang members and other troublemakers intent on settling beefs and brawling.

Konstantine (Gus) Drakopoulos, who describes himself as the club’s “Bossman,” is a convicted white-collar felon.

He has employed an ex-con who did 10 years for manslaughter as a kind of intermediary with gang members to keep the peace, according to records and sources.

Drakopoulos also had a retired NYPD inspector on the payroll.

Even though it has been plagued by drug sales, gang activity, shootings, fights and allegations of prostitution, Sin City seems beyond the reach of cops, the State Liquor Authority, and local politicians. Community leaders see the fleshpot as coated in Teflon.

And with good reason.

Despite high-profile drug arrests at the club in June, the SLA renewed Sin City’s license as it slogs on in its review, now in its eighth month.

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"Nightly revenue for the club itself ranges from around $13,000 on a typical Tuesday to close to $60,000 on a Saturday night, according to internal records obtained by The News. Annually, the figures suggest that Sin City takes in roughly $11 million - not including what the dancers and waitresses make."

“Guards got about $110 a night, so it’s not worth getting into a situation over weed,” he said. “You have like 600 people in there and 15 bouncers, and five of them are at the door. That’s just not enough to control a crowd that size.”
 

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Drakopoulos, who refers to himself as a “nightlife impresario, entrepreneur and aviation pilot,” has done well. Last year he bought a 5,000-square-foot five-bedroom mansion for $850,000 in Peconic on Long Island’s North Fork. The house had been advertised as a “gentleman’s estate home.”

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Ill never understand how dudes clown "tricks" and make fun of guys that pay for dates, but hype up strippers/strip club culture and are willing to throw money at a strip club

Whats the difference between a John and someone throwing money at a strip club? Nothing really:yeshrug:
 

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Although Drakopoulos often pals around with black celebrities at Sin City, a lawsuit indicates and former employees say he has repeatedly made racist remarks.

In 2014, dancers Kieara Gaskin, Tenia Stuckey and Denise Miller sued Sin City, alleging that Drakopoulos used the n-word and said things like, “We don’t want the ghetto element you attract.”

They claimed Drakopoulos and manager Kevin Wells called African-Americans “b-----s, hos and sluts,” according to the suit.

The dancers also alleged that women with darker skin were generally not hired, and if they were hired, they would be relegated to less lucrative day shifts, when Drakopoulos was not there.

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Ill never understand how dudes clown "tricks" and make fun of guys that pay for dates, but hype up strippers/strip club culture and are willing to throw money at a strip club

Whats the difference between a John and someone throwing money at a strip club? Nothing really:yeshrug:

THANK YOU !!!! :blessed:
 

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