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'Dangerous' Nightclub is Taking Astoria Back to the 1990s, Locals Say

 Neighbors near Aces New York complained of club-goers puking and urinating on their street.
Neighbors near Aces New York complained of club-goers puking and urinating on their street.
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ASTORIA — A Queens nightclub that's drawn celebrities like Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna is causing mayhem for its neighbors who say club-goers regularly swarm their block, puking and urinating on sidewalks and leaving used condoms in the street.

To make matters worse, a man was shot outside the Aces New York club on Saturday. He was injured in the foot shortly before 4 a.m. after a fight inside the club spilled onto the street on 37th Avenue, off 32nd Street, according to Deputy Inspector Peter Fortune, who heads the 114th Precinct.

There have been no arrests yet, but Fortune said they're confident one will be made soon.

Residents who live near the club showed up to a Community Board 1 meeting Tuesday with horror stories of their own and begged CB1 to to do something about the hotspot before more violence erupts.

"This place is ominous, it's dangerous," Joseph Dougherty, who lives near the club, told members of the board. "You need to do what you can to get this place shut down."

Aces opened in December or January at 32-10 37th Ave., where a club called System has previously operated, police and locals said.

The club's Instagram account advertises DJ sets alongside photos of lingerie-clad women and stacks of cash. Celebrity couple Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna were photographed there in April. 

Neighbor James Woods described the nightly fracas from the club as "madness," adding that it draws police cars to the block almost every night.

He complained of crowds of people, many urinating or vomiting, using drugs or having sex, he said.

"I'm sick of living in a pool of urine surrounded by used condoms and discarded women's undergarments all over my sidewalk," he continued.

Other residents said there were brawls in the street, cars blocking their garages and driveways and patrons driving drunk through the neighborhood after leaving Aces.

They also complained of broken glass and full bottles of liquor being discarded on sidewalks.

"I'm seeing something that is only referred to as the '90s coming back again," said Joseph Leite, who said he lives around the block from Aces on 32nd Street.

John Katsanos, head of CB1's consumer affairs committee, said the board turned down the club's bid to alter its liquor license in December.

But the State Liquor Authority approved the application in spite of the board's protests, according to Katsanos, adding that CB1 recently sent a letter to the SLA asking it to suspend Aces' liquor license.

The SLA did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the club. The owners of Aces could not immediately be reached for comment.

Fortune, of the 114th Precinct, said police plan to regularly monitor the club.

"We're going to do what we can to keep this place safe," he told the community board on Tuesday.

"We're going to work with our other agencies and conduct whatever enforcement and operations that are necessary."