Scores New York

Scores is a strip club in Manhattan, New York City, and was one of several gentlemen's clubs which changed the face of adult entertainment in that city during the early 1990s and had gained wider notoriety and popularity mostly due to frequent mention by Howard Stern. Today Scores has changed ownership and total management of the night club company. On January 27, 2009, the Company entered into a licensing agreement with I.M. Operating LLC (IMO) for the use of the Scores brand name.

Scores was New York's "first major gentlemen's club" when it opened in the early 1990s. "'It had a gorgeous interior, high-end food and drinks, and of course stunningly beautiful women in sexy gowns. Prior to that, live adult entertainment in New York consisted largely of seedy peep show-type places,' says Joe Diamond, veteran journalist and publicist for the adult industry."

Similar clubs that opened during this period include Flashdancers and Goldfinger's. Scores followed suit, opening as a venue run by businessmen from Denver and Texas. Later, it was taken over by New Yorkers and became at one point embroiled in controversy over alleged Mafia connections. Scores has attracted a lot of publicity by giving many free visits to Howard Stern, who often mentioned the club on his radio show, along with attracting a fair amount of celebrity guests. The somewhat lesser known, but earlier established Flashdancers actually holds claim though of being NYC's first "table dance" club, begun in 1991, modeling itself after Micheal Peter's Pure Platinum/Solid Gold establishments of the late 1980s. These clubs, along with Tens (formerly Stringfellows) are considered to be "gentrifying" clubs; displacing the old B-girl hustle bar in Manhattan with lavish adult nightclubs. On the August 16, 2007 Sirius radio broadcast of The Howard Stern Show, spokesman Lonnie Hanover called in to reveal that he had resigned his publicity and promotions position at Scores after 15 years. Hanover stated that he did not agree with some "recent changes" and has decided to "face some new challenges and maybe do it somewhere else," and added, "I'm still in love with big boobs, real or fake."[1]. On the February 6, 2008 broadcast of the Stern show, Lonnie Hanover reported that he would be moving to Ricks Cabaret in New York.

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