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April 20, 1988

BROADWAY ON A FROZEN WINTER’S NIGHT

By CBR Staff Writer

Anyone who has walked up Broadway on a frozen winter’s night will have been stunned by the array of all-too-available girls in the skimpiest of costumes that seem to be plying their trade from every shadowed doorway – but there was no standing around in the cold for the high-tech houris who worked for the Play Mate Escort Service which operated out of an apartment across the street from St Nicholas Church in Queens: unfortunately, we gather from Newsbytes, New York’s finest were under the influence not of St Nick but Scrooge when they raided the place and found a computer that gave a whole new meaning to the term relational database, for it was used to match 4,500 clients with the agency’s ladies of the night, and all 450 unhappy hookers had to turn in their radiopagers.

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