Scores West (New York City, New York)

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Upscale Gentlemen's club which opened in 2004. It is affiliated with the NYC Scores East. The original Scores opened in 1991 after founder Michael Blutrich agreed to pay some sort of tax to Gambino crime family associates. Business boomed due to expert promotion from publicist Lonnie Hanover and near-weekly adulation from "the club's biggest fan" radio jock Howard Stern.

In 1996 Blutrich and his partner Lyle Pfeffer were charged with embezzling money from an unrelated insurance business in Florida. In an attempt to save themselves, they agreed to wear hidden FBI microphones during meetings with suspected mobsters. The evidence they gathered was a factor in the racketeering indictment that sent John "Junior" Gotti to prison in 1999. Blutrich and Pfeffer entered the federal witness protection program and are now serving prison terms of nearly 20 years in connection with the Florida fraud case.

Scores passed to a new owner, barely avoided being shut down by Giuliani's administration, then was purchased in 2002 by a group that included current owners Harvey Osher and Richard Goldring. They set about turning Scores into a national brand, opening Scores West in 2004.

The club is housed in a 3-story commercial building completed in 1917. Designed by XXXX, it spans through the block. The north facade on 28th Street is faced in bare concrete. There are two main entrances, one at the west end and the other near the east, both with sets of wooden double-doors with two columns of circle cutouts framed in metal. Sloped steel canopies cover both of these entrances. There is a secondary entrance at the east end, with another door in the same style. Steel mesh panels are located between each doorway, extending halfway up the facade. The south facade on 27th Street is clad in reddish-brown brick. It has a central entrance with red metal double-doors as well as another red metal door and a black metal door. The west end of the ground floor has a loading dock with a roll-down metal gate, and the east end has a recessed black metal door. The upper floors have a 4-pane studio window at the middle, with a single-window at the west end and the east end having two single-windows on the 2nd floor and one on the 3rd.