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Why hasn’t LIQ run any stories about the republican candidate for the district?

Can you really find a waterfront studio in one of the towers in Queenswest/Hunter Point for $1800?

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Van Bramer is at the Vernon-Jackson subway stop all the time.

Engaging in hypocritical sexually deviant behaviour…
What do you think he was doing?! He was introducing himself to residents, passing out information about himself and answering questions.

Being homosexual and wanting to keep a possibly sleezy strip club owner from opening a business are two incredibly different things. That’s not hypocracy.

As far as the studio advertised, after you factor in the 1 month free its a lot less than $1800. Too bad the rest of the neighborhood just views the “tower people” as wealthy elitest that don’t belong in the neighborhood.

I think LIQ is pro-democrat. The coverage is not fair or balanced.

#6 and #10…you’re joking right? if not, please leave the neighborhood. we don’t like narrow-minded/ religious zealot / racist/ homophobic people like you here.

Hi, I’m #6 here. I was not aiming for a homophobic comment. I meant that calling a strip club “sleazy” is just as subjective as it used to be to call gayness ’sleazy’. What’s sleazy sexual practice? People go to strip clubs all the time. Tons of people are gay. Everyone wants to do what they want to do, but then restrict others. Why should Van Bramer, or anyone else for that matter stand in the way of people legally patronizing a legal strip club?

I wholeheartedly support the strip club owner even though I don’t ever go to them. I don’t think that anyone has a right to decide what is sleazy behavior is. Or deny a liquor license just because they don’t want them there. What if it was a gay club instead of a strip club? I wonder then what would happen.

6/15, you should have quit while you were ahead. Now you sound even more stupid.

How dare you! Your comments equating a gay man with sexual deviancy are beyond the pale.

I see no contradiction whatsoever, regardless on Jimmy’s personal sexual orientation, to oppose a business that profits from the objectification of women, not to mention its negative influences on neighborhood character.

You can justify your enjoyment of these disgusting places as much as you like. But Jimmy and most other people don’t have to, and thank goodness for that

That’s just your opinion 17 that it’s sleazy. It’s LEGAL! If our gov’t is so great, then why would they legalize “sleazy” behavior, and outlaw gay marriage? The issue you really have is with your government’s priorities. Of which Van Bramer is a part of now, and that’s why I said he was hypocritical in the first place. There is no such thing as deviant sexual behavior. It’s all subjective. It’s just what is mainstream vs what’s not. Decades ago, most people in the US agreed that being gay was deviant. Now that’s not the case as much. Even further back, we believed in systemic racism. Interracial dating was so sleazy at one point, that people were killed for doing it. Strip clubs are harmless. If you object to the objectification of women, just don’t go, and treat the women in your life like gold. If all men did that, no one would go to strip clubs.

RIP City Dog Lounge. Where is their second location?

#5, do NOT get Direct TV-it sucks. Every time it rains, it stops working. It’s the owrst service I’ve ever had.

City Dog Lounge has been going out of business for months. They have had no inventory and kept lying about how they changed distributors. I don’t understand how they could go under… the number of pets in LIC has only increased by a million. And they were the only pet store. So bizarre. Must have been badly managed.

That’s true! I was thinking it was just the bad economy, but you guys are right. If anything should have succeeded in that spot, it was a pet store.

Their prices were high and they had too much organic or allergy free pet food there. How about just regular bags of Iams or something simple like that.

But they were always friendly and helpful to me! Maybe their landlord jacked up their rent too high?!? That seems to be common around Hunters Point these days, but I’m just taking a guess. I have no idea, really.

Really # 30? Are you sure about that?

http://www.google.com/search?q=strip+clubs+in+manhattan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The strip club is not under the ramps. It’s the first thing you see coming off the upper roadway toward LIC. My take is that looks are important to community and business development. Like it or not if we are trying to attract the financial sector, the high tech sector, more cultural institutions, etc. it gives an unappealing greeting to Queens (I think for most people). I don’t question the business owner’s right to conduct a legal business – even if it’s not my cup of tea.

Regarding Jimmy, he is by no means the machine candidate. He was definitely not their chosen candidate. I suspect he would be equally opposed to a gay strip club for the exact same reasons.

The little strip club on Vernon has a very low profile. It does not cause congestion at an already dangerous intersection, and it does not attract a crowd from all over the City – something that could possibly have an adverse affect on the surrounding neighborhoods.

Thank you, 33. I find it disturbing that strip clubs have gained a veneer of acceptability among people who ought to know better. Call them upscale, call them what you like. The fact is they are places that prey on our worst natures and only encourage sleaze and trouble. As a developing neighborhood, we should fight back at any attempts to create a new porn zone in NYC. As anyone who lived through the dark days of NYC knows, nothing good can emerge from these horrible businesses and there is no reason they should be a new one in LIC.

Yup totally #36.

And Cityscapes and Scandals are right next to the QB and they don’t give a bad impression of Queens?

I just feel sorry for all the inadequacy that males must feel that they can’t find a real relationship. What a waste on $. Real sex far exceeds groping, ogling and getting so worked up that your release is a toilet.

Then why bother being in a relationship? Just so you can have your laundry done? I don’t think it’s all married men. Why pay for not getting laid? What is the point? That’s what I don’t understand? It’s not a morality thing…I just don’t get how a strip club gets your rocks off? What is the big attraction of paying to get all worked up?

I have a large group of married men friends. All of us are easygoing and not uptight at all. But except for the occasional bachelor party, none of us has ever gone to strip clubs, and most of us are happily married to women we love and trust. That’s the world I live in, buddy. If you don’t have that, well, that’s too bad.

As another married male who knows several others I agree with 43. I’ve never been to a bachelor party and from what I’ve heard of them I have no regrets. Whatever works for you, that’s your deal but it does not represent anywhere near 50% of the males I know.