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I Turned A Strip Club and Turned It Into A Chabad House
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You took a strip club in Queens and you
shut it down and you turned it I think
into the Chabad center?
>> a good memory. So in 2008, I defaulted
real estate. One day I get a call from
my banker. He said, "Jona I know you're
buying a bunch of defaulted [music]
notes. I have a good one." I said,
"What's the address?" He tells me 248
Rockaway Boulevard, Rosedale, New York.
But I didn't Google, thank God for
Google Maps. I put it in. I see High
Heels, the strip club. The strip club
that all the rabbonim, all the rabbis,
all the senators, the year before I
bought it, they had a massive gathering
in the White Shul with like 400 people
with senators, with a
congressmen, with people how they're
going to get that billboard down or how
they're going to close down that club.
Now all of a sudden, I'm on the phone
with a bank and the bank's offering me
to buy the paper, the defaulted note, to
buy the strip club.
>> And they're still operating?
>> Still operating.
>> And what was it? Just for context so
everyone understands. When you're going
from JFK to Far Rockaway or to Long
Beach or to Atlantic Beach, what was the
name of the place?
>> High Heels.
>> It was called High Heels?
>> High Heels.
>> I thought you said you saw high heels
like in the window?
>> it's called.