Take the F Train

Did you say Ukrainians?

I'm booking my flight this afternoon.

Good to have you back.

"I tried to persuade a hot blonde Columbian to go home with me."

Maybe she thought you wanted to bring her back to Detroit?

Did you run RickyBoy's The System? Invented and perfected in NYC.

Looks like the country is on the verge of an economic boom.

Things may start getting harder extraswise now. Not like around 2000 but the easiest of times may also be come to an end some day,

Everything in NYC is expensive. Wether it in a SC, or just out in the city, if you want to do anything it is going to cost you a lot more than just about anywhere else in the country. Strip clubs are especially expensive, and because of the history they have had, are scrutinized and monitored VERY closely. From my observations that I have made though, clubs in surrounding areas are the beneficiaries of this. You can go just an hour or so out of the city into New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Connecticut, or even upstate New York and your dollar will usually a lot further and usually you can get away with a lot more ( of coarse, it varies from club to club).

That's a very accurate summary of NYC clubs. I don't like them because they are all low mileage and very high cost, a lethal combination. Also I dont like the Russian and Eastern European girls. They look good but are arrogant and I've found a disproportionate number who were ROBs. I do very rarely find an American girl worth spending money on in NYC, but not often. Usually I just go to flash dancers and tip at the stage.

Of course in Detroit some of the dancers look like they are part of a "herd of sheep". LOL.

Jack, great to have you back. Quick question-Did anybody confuse you for Woody Allen?

Teetotaler? I had never heard that term before and had to look it up. jack and farmerart are always expanding my vocab! :)

I've never clubbed in NY, but I'm not surprised one bit that the dancers are extremely attractive. NY also has a vast variety of ethnicities, so no matter what type of dancer you like, I'm sure they've got it.

You should have SCed in the Bronx

P.S. Nice to have you back – thought something had happened to you after your long TUSCL absence

BTW – Columbia is an Ivy League school – Colombia is the one w/ the hot Colombians (no ‘u’). (unless you meant a hot blond from Columbia Univ :))

Manhattan clubs are designed to take large sums of cash off of high rollers and tourists. Fun can most definitely be had in the CRs, but it will cost you a fortune and you are SOL if you take the wrong girl back. A $600 room becomes a $1,000 room by the time you are done tipping everyone who has their hands out, including the dancer for whatever services she performed, the CR manager and even the waitress. It is a racket.

I rarely club anymore in Manhattan.

@motorhead: Cheetah and Sapphire in Manhattan, or Gallaghers in Long Island City, among other clubs, will offer you all the Eastern European girls you could ever want, including Ukrainian girls. I will tell you that the bonds of sisterhood among Eastern European strippers who are here are stronger than whatever divides the people back in the Ukraine. I was sitting with a Ukrainian stripper a couple of months ago and she spent some time talking about friends who are in the Ukrainian military and have been involved in this mess, but it wasn't impacting her (and other Ukrainian girls who she knew) relationship with the Russian girls. They still all live in the same areas and travel to the clubs in the same vans.

So Manhattan is too tough a nut even for RickyBoy's The System to crack? That is saying something!

^^^ Au contraire monsieur Troll. Manhattan is very crack-able. The problem is the price tag on the nutcracker.

Clubbing in NYC is unlike clubbing anywhere else. In Manhattan, there are only 16 clubs in a place with millions of residents, business travelers, commuters who work in the city, and tourists, many of whom have high incomes. Jacklash nailed the pricing issues - the economics of these clubs are distorted as compared to clubs almost anywhere else, including the income expectations of club dancers.

So, in other words, too tough a nut for The System to crack. Really were out of your league and just a poser all those years, weren't you, RickyBoy!

Go to Gallaghers during the day- in Long Island City! Cheap beer specials, free buffet or lunch, $20 LDS!!!! and VIP. Never go anywhere else in NY.

NYC used to have great clubs many many years ago. Then mayor Giuliani got into office, and was determined to clean up NYC. So as part of his campaign, the SC were also included. They have been bad since then. High $ for low mileage. Not worth it, so even thought I get into NYC a bunch, I no longer waste my money on NYC clubs.

Yeah, NYC is somewhere between suck-tastic and suck-tacular. The entire northest, with a few exceptions, is pretty useless in terms of strip clubs if you want mileage and value. I give Guiliani a lot of credit for his general NYC cleanup, but with strip clubs thats just going too far

I have yet to be in a New Jersey club that is worth the cover. They are mostly low low contact, expensive bikini clubs. If anyone can direct me to a good high mileage club in Paterson NJ I would go check it out.

“… Do any native born Americans strip in NYC …”

“… NYC used to have great clubs many many years ago. Then mayor Giuliani got into office, and was determined to clean up NYC. So as part of his campaign, the SC were also included. They have been bad since then. High $ for low mileage. Not worth it, so even thought I get into NYC a bunch, I no longer waste my money on NYC clubs …”

Perhaps the 2nd statement answers the 1st – custies in the know, know to avoid NYC – so perhaps dancers in the know, know NYC is not worth it and thus only foreign dancers with not many options are the ones that take these dancing jobs?

"In Detroit, $1000 would get me 3 strippers and a herd of sheep."

In fairness, three strippers and a herd of sheep are all that's left in Detroit. OK, all that's left that isn't owned by Mike Ilitch or GM.

This is the FUCK train?

You can't get a DUI in Manhattan; the drinks are too expensive, as you said! LOL Great article; tks for posting it.