Exclusive | Midtown massage parlor busted for alleged $100 happy endings, a decade after owner swore off sex trade

The city wants to padlock a Midtown massage parlor where workers allegedly offered undercover cops sex acts for cash, more than a decade after the building’s owner agreed to a court order barring prostitution there.Twice in late May, a worker at East Garden Spa, on the third floor of 23 W.45th St., agreed to perform a sex act on an undercover officer for an extra $100 on top of a massage, according to a nuisance abatement suit the city filed Sept.
30 in Manhattan Supreme Court and obtained by The Post.On May 21, the officer was offered an hourlong massage for $80, plus the $100 add-on, the suit says.
On May 30, it was a 30-minute rubdown for $60, with the same $100 extra.A 911 caller had reported prostitution at the spa, according to the suit, which cites NYPD records reviewed in February.Online ads for the spa promise “Young Hot Beautiful Asian Girls” and declare “I’m ready to give you the HOT!!” One escort-site listing says the spa is open seven days a week until 1:30 a.m.Another touts a “4hand special.”The city is suing the building, 531 Central Park Avenue Associates LLC, which the suit identifies as the owner, and the spa’s unnamed operators.
It wants the unit closed for a year, its contents seized by the sheriff and each defendant fined $1,000 for every day it intentionally allowed the nuisance.But the building had already changed hands.An entity called 21 W 45 LLC bought it on Sept.
16, two weeks before the suit was filed, property records show.Our Town NY reported in early September that the developer plans to demolish it and put up a new building spanning 21 and 23 W.
45th St.It’s not the first time the city has gone after the unit.In November 2013, a woman inside the same third-floor space agreed to perform a sex act on an undercover detective for $40 and was arrested, court records show.The detective returned in February 2014 and paid $60 for a massage from a woman who couldn’t produce a valid massage license.
She was arrested,...