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AXED GALS TAKE POLE POSITIONS
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By ANKA RADAKOVICH
'It was very odd seeing a strip club being better run than a major brokerage firm, not to mention I've never had problems with sexual harassment at Rick's.'- Randi Newton (above), 28, a former Morgan Stanley financial analyst who now pole dances at Rick's Cabaret in Murray Hill


Last updated: 12:52 pm
March 29, 2009

The economy's gone bust, and so have they.

Scores of professional New York women stripped of their six-figure jobs are now working as "gentlemen's club entertainers" at upscale Manhattan jiggle joints. Former Wall Streeters, fashion executives and real-estate agents are pole dancing and strip ping for as much as $1,500 a night -- but also because they like the flexible hours.

Randi Newton, 28, who lives in Midtown, was a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley before the crash but was fired.

"A few nights after I got laid off, I went with friends to a strip club to get drunk and forget my unemployment troubles," Newton said. "The manager offered me a job as a dancer. I thought it was different. And fun."

Today, Newton, who calls herself an "independent contractor," pole dances at Rick's Cabaret in Murray Hill three or four nights a week and says she makes "$160,000 a year on tips alone."

"It was very odd seeing a strip club being better run than a major brokerage firm, not to mention I've never had problems with sexual harassment at Rick's," she said.

Peter Feinstein, owner of the Sapphire Club on East 60th Street, which opened in January, said, "I am receiving a lot of applications from women who recently lost their jobs -- in particular New York City real-estate agents."

Katie Haverton, 27, is one of them. She worked as a broker for a large real-estate company for three years until January, when she says she hadn't made a sale in six months and had $2 left in her bank account. She now performs at Flash Dancers in Midtown.

"With real estate, you can work 10 hours a day showing people apartments and you never know when the next sale will be," said Haverton, who lives on the Upper East Side. "But with dancing, the money is instant. Now that I make better money as a stripper than as a real-estate agent, I'm going to buy my own apartment."

Becky, 24, who lives in the East Village, was a pastry chef before becoming a "massage girl" recently at Rick's.

"I couldn't find anything after I got laid off because it's hard to land a chef job these days," said Becky, who asked that her last name be withheld.

Jiggle-joint owners say they are hiring more "talent" than ever right now, due to a surge in business. A rep for Flash Dancers said it receives 40 applications a month to fill just five positions, while 50 candidates a week vie for positions at Rick's, said its president, Eric Langdan.

"These places give men hope," Langdan said.

"Even in the worst of times, for us it's the breast of times."