CHARLESTON — A Staten Island strip club where off-duty New Jersey officers partied before a fatal wrong-way car crash last year could lose its liquor license, the New York Post reported.
Curves Gentlemen's Club at 2945 Arthur Kill Road could be stripped of its license by the State Liquor Authority for not serving food, though its owners have pleaded with a judge to let them keep it.
“Without this business I will be financially ruined,” owner Louis Astuto said in court papers, according to the Post.
In August 2015, the club was hit with a violation by the SLA for not serving food — required by state law for places that sell alcohol — and the SLA ruled last month to cancel its license, the Post reported.
A judge granted a hold on the decision until after an Aug. 12 court hearing for Astuto's motion against losing the license.
The SLA and Astuto's lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
The strip club was on the verge of being shuttered by the state in 2014 after three brawls happened inside and in front of the club, including one where three people were beaten with the metal pole that held up the club's velvet rope.
The club made headlines last year after three off-duty Linden, N.J., police officers and a civilian partied inside before a wrong-way crash on a Staten Island highway that killed two people.
Abad allegedly had a .24 percent blood alcohol content while behind the wheel, which is over the legal limit of .08 percent, prosecutors said.
In 2010, two Staten Islanders sued the strip club after employees there pummeled them on New Year's Day "without any just cause or provocation," the Staten Island Advance reported.
The club was also listed off-limits for NYPD officers and is on the NYPD's list of "corruption-prone locations," the Post reported.
