from www.pressofatlanticcity.com – A famous New York strip club company has applied to become the only one to do business in an Atlantic City casino.

If the proposed Scores-Atlantic City location in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort obtains the Casino Control Commission’s blessing, however, New Jersey law will require the entertainers to exercise more modesty than they do in Manhattan.

Starlight Events LLC applied Friday to operate a 9,800-square-foot gentlemen’s club in Stage Deli’s former location on the casino’s second floor. The club would serve alcohol to customers, who could watch entertainers dance and strip from evening wear to underwear over the course of three songs.

Starlight also owns Penthouse Executive Club and Scores-New York. Howard Stern helped make the latter popular through repeated mentions on his radio show.

The application does not specify the extent of Trump Entertainment Resorts’ role, other than to say the two parties were “currently negotiating” a lease.

“There are negotiations, but that’s not a done deal,” Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. spokesman Tom Hickey said, declining further comment.

When the casino commission will consider the application is not yet known, commission spokeswoman Lisa Spengler said. The project would require about six months and $3 million worth of construction before a club could open, Starlight attorney Scott Silver said.

New York law does not prevent adult club entertainers from baring their breasts, Silver said. But in a New Jersey casino, or in any state business dispensing alcohol, nothing a bikini covers can be exposed. Starlight’s application mentions a bare minimum of pasties and thongs, or G-strings.

Customers, too, would be subject to a dress code, though Starlight’s application doesn’t elaborate on that. It does, however, stipulate rules for the behavior of both customer and dancer:

– “At no time during a table dance … will entertainers pull at their clothing or pasties so as to allow a patron a quick look or ‘flash.’”

– “Entertainers are instructed to remove the hand of any patron touching them elsewhere and to place it by the patron’s side with a side-to-side ‘no’ shake of her head.”

– “Entertainers are permitted to tastefully touch patrons as part of the table dance routine, but only with their hands, only in passing, and only on their shoulders, arms, head and neck.”

Casino Control Commission law also forbids sex acts or simulations in casino entertainment.

Starlight expects to create 80 to 100 full-time jobs for hosts, bartenders and service staff, as well as 150 to 200 contracting jobs for entertainers and DJs.

Owners of several competing adult entertainment clubs in the area, many of which are on Pacific Avenue directly behind the Boardwalk casinos, either declined to comment on the Starlight proposal or could not be reached Tuesday.

“The construction, opening and operation of an upscale, high-profile, New-York-based brand will generate buzz and positive press for Atlantic City and Taj Mahal,” the Starlight application reads. “As a new high-end form of entertainment, it will create destination traffic to Atlantic City; will provide a new amenity to Atlantic City nightlife, and will provide an additional attraction for convention attendees.”