A raid by the NYPD Vice Squad netted five prostitution arrests at a notorious Queens strip club early Friday, the Daily News has learned.
The Vice cops swept into Show Palace on 21st St. near 43rd Ave. in Long Island City just before 4 a.m., police said.
The officers arrested the women, ranging in age from 20- to 35-years-old, authorities said.
“Five girls arrested in one night? That’s not a strip club. It’s a brothel with music,” a police source said.
The strip club is owned by the same group that owns the Sin City jiggle joint in the Bronx.
That club lost its liquor license in May, following a Daily News exposé that detailed violence, drug sales and allegations of prostitution. In July 2016, nine people were arrested in a drug dealing case.
Show Palace, meanwhile, was barred from obtaining a liquor license for the second time in January.
Captain John Travaglia, Commanding Officer of the 108th Precinct, told the state Liquor Authority that three of the four shootings in the precinct in 2016 were tied to the club.
The Friday raid began as an investigation of allegations that the club was violating liquor laws, sources said.
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