Inside Sin City: The Bronx strip club where anything goes, by the NY Daily News
(long article)
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.
(read more at the site)
(long article)
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.
(read more at the site)