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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.