Legislator Toback Leads Demonstration At Platinum Club Owner's Great Neck Office Against Billboard

Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback (D-Oceanside), civic leaders, representatives from City Councilman Sanders office and concerned residents held a demonstration outside the Great Neck office of the owner of the Platinum Club to protest the billboards advertising the club. Demonstrators carried signs identical to the billboard on the roof of the Platinum Club on Rockaway Blvd., in Queens that depicts a woman scantily clothed. Legislator Toback held the demonstration to continue his efforts to have the billboard removed.

The residents of the Five Towns have complained that the large billboard advertising the gentleman’s club is provocative and want it taken down immediately.

“As a parent I am outraged that children are being subjected to this type of immodesty,” said Legislator Toback holding a sign depicting the Platinum Club’s questionable billboard. “I will pledge to take all steps necessary within the law to have this inappropriate signage removed from our community.”

Leg. Toback cautioned Great Neck residents that their community could be the next area exposed to this type of advertising. He attempted to speak to the owner of the club inside the building but when he learned he was not there left one of the posters, writing a note on it requesting the owner call him and remove the billboard(see picture below).

Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback writing a note of appeal to the Platinum Club’s owner on a sign he carried at a demonstration organized by the legislator against the gentleman’s club’s offensive billboard. It was held in front of the Platinum Club owner’s office in Great Neck.