Plastered all over the NYC 10:00 news was lead story that Larry Flynt's Hustler club has just opened on Manhattan's west side, near to 4 other clubs including Penthouse Exec Club. Tag lines were "Smut Wars", "Porno Row" etc. They then trotted out the NYC councilwoman from the Chelsea (west side) district, who started laying out her new 'crusade'.
She used the lever of Larry Flynt being a 'smut peddler' to imply that all of these clubs are involved in sleaze and called for increased police patrols in the area. She also played the 'sleaze card' to attack the city administration for allowing these new clubs to open, when they are smack in the middle of redevelopment projects which depend on people being willing to move into swank new apartments directly adjacent to these west side clubs (meant to scare city officials since the city loaned/subsidized the developers using taxpayer's money and will not get their money back if the developments fail).
This is the first public outcry against strip clubs by a city official in Manhattan since the Juliani days, and is NOT a good sign !



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