Tribeca Strip Club New York Dolls Won't Be Closing After All

TRIBECA, NY — The New York Dolls strip club isn’t moving after all, according to Page Six. Its owners have bought the building at 59 Murray St. where they've rented for 30 years.

One of the owners of the club, Barry Albert, told Page Six that the business would have been over if they had had to move.

"The thing about our business is that it’s impossible to reopen anywhere else because there’s so much regulation in our industry, especially in lower Manhattan; forget it — it’ll never happen again," he said.

New York Dolls was scheduled to be knocked down along with seven other buildings to make way for a luxury condo complex. But reportedly after “tense negotiations,” the owners of the club managed to come up with the money to buy the building and the one next door that's home to the pub Cricketers Arms. According to local paper Tribeca Citizen, there are rumors that a steakhouse might open up in the pub's place.

New York Dolls, located right by Ground Zero, was in the public eye during the controversy over the post-911 proposal to build an Islamic cultural center nearby. It was used as an example, in contrast to the cultural center, of the kind of establishments that were considered acceptable for the neighborhood.

It has also payed settlements for accusations of paying unfair wages.

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