Monday, March 7, 2016

It's not safe to go into the water

From the NY Post:

The Spa Castle in Queens is billed as a sprawling, 22-pool Disneyland of soaks and steams.

But some patrons are anything but G-rated.

On Sunday mornings, an army of exotic dancers getting off their Saturday-night shifts descends on the complex — and it’s not to do laps in the pool.

“We open at 6 a.m., and lots of strippers come here after work to unwind,” an employee told The Post. “There’s lots of skinny dipping and the girls are making out with each other and partying. It looks like the set of a porn movie.”

During two recent visits, The Post found patrons in their birthday suits, groping each other, making out and having what appeared to be underwater sex.

Last Sunday, the clientele ranged in age from toddlers to octogenarians. But that did not stop a group of five heavily tattooed twenty-somethings from engaging in splashy sexcapades in the 2-foot-deep, heated wading pool on the second floor.

House music pulsing, one of the women stripped down naked and cheerfully played with her breasts while a woman in a yellow-fringe string bikini and a man looked on. A few minutes later the nude woman stood in front of the seated man while her hand jerked in and out of the water. A couple made out a few feet away.

A male member of the group wondered out loud if they should make a liquor-store run.

It was not yet 9 a.m.

For two decades, [Steve] Chon’s forte was building and renovating Korean-run laundries and nail salons. But in 2005, the developer with champagne tastes purchased a ramshackle warehouse on 11th Avenue in College Point for $3.6 million. He envisioned it as a family friendly hotel-spa. The spa’s Facebook page has even described its mission to create a “light-hearted, family-oriented” ambience.

The community board promptly shot Chon down, “deriding the proposal as a thinly disguised ‘hot sheet’ establishment,” the Queens Gazette reported.

But Chon gained the support of then-Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, who helped shepherd the project through a series of city approvals.

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not to worry...the chlorine will kill the jism and STDs oozing out of the strippers!

Anonymous said...

It sounds gross. OMG! Something needs to be done about the matter.

Get all the proper authorities to come down on them big time.

Normal people must be alerted to the fact that they could get diseases at the Spa.

Anonymous said...

This has been kept a secret for years. Ask the homeowners what they see going on there every day. The spa should be shut down!

JQ LLC said...

The legacy of Helen Marshall is all over this. And I assume that fem leader whatever monument they were planning to build where civic virtue was (remember that, is that still on?) her stain/name will be engraved on it

Anonymous said...

Our politicians NEED TO GET TO WORK seeing that the place is SHUT DOWN. Where are the police; investigators and health dept.?

Anonymous said...

I thought I read last week that Spa Castle closed down when Health Department said they had inadequate supervision of their pools, after a 6 year old nearly drowned on February 19th.

Anonymous said...

I lived in Europe for a few years, Germany specifically, spas are everywhere there, and people disrobe there in spas, but I never saw people ever engage in that kind of behavior despite the fact that they were not wearing clothes. In fact if they did engage in that kind of behavior, the management would promptly throw them out, but it would be rare to see that kind of behavior. Here in the US when you see bare skin on a stranger its kind of viewed as an invitation. I am not surprised this is going on in that place. It looks shady anyway, family friendly? Are you kidding?

Anonymous said...

Good. Now they can concentrate on the rest of the human trafficking and prostitution spas and gambling dens in Flushing. Start on 162nd street between Northern and 46th avenue. It's a red light district. About 20 spas on a small stretch.

Let's do it, DiBlasio. No hit-and-run town hall meetings. Let's see some action. Kids pass these places on their way home from PS 107.

Anonymous said...

Oh....but that's the "Asan way" as some Asian community leader once said during Julia Harrison's tenure.
Concubines, strippers, sex slaves, massagee, massagee, massagee, ga,bling, human tragicking, extortion!
The end there was Tommy Huang. Enough said. The whole area is an Asian sump. It's politicians were bought three decades ago.
Filthy Flushing is its prime example. The sludge spread into College Point, but will not be confined there. It is headed east along Northern Blvd. the great Silk Road.


Anonymous said...

I don't miss the Spa Castle's vans racing through my neighborhood with wannabee Mario Andretti drivers!!! Did that van really go through a red light? That's OK. He'll stop twice at the next one...NOT!!!

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't city officials been suspicious earlier? Did they not see the signs at the exit that said, "Thank you. Cum again"???

Anonymous said...

I don't believe it. Video please!

Anonymous said...

ISN'T THAT WHAT HAPPENS AT A TURKISH BATH??

Anonymous said...

This doesn't surprise me one bit. The one time (and last time) I went there, the people in there were acting so disgusting and ghetto. I hated that place and I will not miss it if it closed down permanently.

Anonymous said...

Lovely place.
Spa = Bordello?

Anonymous said...

How come nothing fun like this ever happened when I went there?

Anonymous said...

""Shouldn't city officials been suspicious""
Haa, they are on "payola" or clients of those hookers !! These Asians have so much dope & skeletons on these politicians & inspectors none who would DARE make waves, rat or bring on an investigation.
That's whats going on with NYC politics !!

Anonymous said...

Why don't we all chip in and buy a membership for Mayor Bill and First Lady Chirlane?

Anonymous said...

Let's face the facts "It's sick out there and getting sicker" !
Bob Grant

Anonymous said...

Just so you know, Avella supported this:

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/18/avellasupportsspa_wt_2012_05_03_q.html

Anonymous said...

Wrong spa, genius. Spa Castle is not in the corporate park and has a completely different owner.

Anonymous said...

Will the mayor force the Spa to have equal access for transgenders?

Anonymous said...

Just so you know, Avella supported this

We know we got it. Your point is?

Sergey Kadinsky said...

I used to go to this spa years ago with my father. Trying to imagine the situation from the owner's point of view, perhaps the employees are afraid that if they confront customers engaged in sexual activities, they could be slapped with complaints for racism, sexism or homophobia, so they look the other way. Confronting a crowd of unruly customers can escalate the tension very quickly.

The solution here is quite simple: hire extra security, post signs clearly indicating which activities are forbidden, keep children out, and for heaven's sake, require bathing suits and bathing caps in the gender-restricted sections. Keep our private areas covered. Seriously.

Unlike some of this blog's readers, I feel that Spa Castle has potential to be a good neighbor, but it shouldn't have been built in a residential neighborhood. Back in Russia, bathhouses are part of the culture. Men go there to drink, read newspapers, play cards and chess, make business deals, brave icy cold water before melting themselves in a sauna, and beat each other with birch leaves- but never have I heard of sex taking place in a Russian bathhouse. Maybe it's an American thing.

The takeaway here is that if you want a safe and authentic spa experience, buy yourself a plane ticket to Russia or Turkey. Likewise, if you're looking for a Korean bath, go to Korea.

Anonymous said...

Illegal activities are just that "illegal". Do you really think that these individuals don't know what activities are forbidden? Obviously, they don't want to keep their private parts covered. That would be too restrictive and slow down business. They are flaunting the merchandise for sale.

Authorities should close them down. Please get a life Sergey the place is beyond fixable. It is drawing the wrong clientele and the owners are raking in the big bucks you can bet. It's too late to save this disgusting spa. Close the place down and put them out of business. If the owners cannot run a legitimate spa, they do not deserve to remain in business..

Anonymous said...

I saw a "skin care" establishment open at 11PM last night. Coming from the Broadway LIRR, it is directly across.

Yeah, skin care at close to midnight. Sure.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what used to go on at the lower east side's famous Russian shvitz?
Remember Flooshing's Northen Men's Sauna? Is that where all the "rice queens" used to get their "jollies"?
Ah, the baths and Caligula. Men will be men! Women will be women. And men and women? The possibilities are endless!
No dogs allowed please.

Anonymous said...

I saw a "skin care" establishment open at 11PM last night. Coming from the Broadway LIRR, it is directly across.

Yeah, skin care at close to midnight. Sure.


Well, I'm sure that various lotions and lubricants were involved...

Anonymous said...

Regarding that "skin care" joint near the Broadway station.
Call Arnold Diaz. The elected pol's have been notified many times about conditions on 164th Stret...and so far NOTHING!
Who is getting paid off? We know the 109th PCT likes to Palm a few bucks.
And BFHA has got their heads up their asses RE Rickert Finlay too damn often.
They haven't done shit either'
WTF do they do besides garden judging and social hours? Those white gloved church ladies are from another century.
Wait until one of them gets accosted by the drunks hanging inside the Broadway station.

Anonymous said...

You got it right, fella!
Crocheron & 164 St. is rubdown row!
You should see some of the crap that goes on there , especially after hours.
Sexy "hostesses" dropped off at those "clubs".
Girls getting picked up in limos to be delivered to clients off premises.
WTF is the 109th doing? Busy taking protection money from these establishment owners?
They have scored up quite a record doing just that starting twenty years ago.