from www.nydailynews.com – Community Board 2 members are battling topless bars they feel draw trouble to the Hunts Point neighborhood.

The board plans to meet this week with owners of Club Heat on Hunts Point Ave., where three men were shot and another stabbed outside the club last Saturday morning.

Last month, Monique Rodriguez was shot dead outside the club.

“These businesses bring a lot of negative impact to the community,” CB2 District Manager Ralph Salamanca Jr. said.

When the owner of Platinum Pleasures strip club recently asked CB2 to support his request for a renewal of his liquor license, the board didn’t just turn him down; they urged the New York State Liquor Authority to reject it.

In their letter to the liquor authority, CB2 listed a slew of crimes that occurred at the club that used to be housed there, the BadaBing, including a murder, three stabbings, three shootings and two bottle slashings. The crime spate led the 41st Precinct to station two police cars on Lafayette Ave. outside the BadaBing each night.

The area has a handful of nudie bars, but the prostitution that plagued it for so long has declined.

Platinum Pleasures, which hasn’t opened yet due to renovations, is an especially toxic location because it’s close to the Bruckner Expressway and attracts truckers and prostitution.

It is within 200 feet of the BankNote building, which houses Wildcat Academy and a DOE suspension center. The building’s owners, Taconic Investment Partners, say they’ll join any effort to keep Platinum Pleasures from opening as a strip club.

“When we made the investment in this building, our intent was to positively influence the area,” said Taconic’s Senior Vice President, Peter Febo.

“This doesn’t exactly line up with our intent.”

Felix Cuesta, who owns Platinum Pleasures, said he went to CB2 to address their concerns but never got a chance.

“I tried to address everything, but they didn’t want to talk about it,” Cuesta said. “They just wanted to say no.”

Cuesta said he would have agreed to open no earlier than 9 p.m. and have no ads outside that might draw children’s attention. He said he would have offered to have security and even require patrons to be 23 to enter.

Though he has not gotten an answer from the liquor authority, he said, “I expect the worst.”

In that case, Cuesta said, “I would have a regular club, just have bikini dancing, probably something like that.”

Ian Amritt, CB2 chairman and executive director of UNITAS, a nonprofit that helps children of abuse, said he knows women who were lured into prostitution as teens at Hunts Point strip clubs.

“They’re around these clubs as a means of making money,” said Armitt. “They worked as dancers then later on were taken in by johns and transformed into prostitutes.”

Salamanca said Club Heat’s manager this week blamed the police for not preventing the recent violence.

“People are partying in their establishment,” Salamanca said. “They fight in there, (the managers) kick them out, and think they don’t have any blame for it. We feel the opposite.”