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Coral reef with abundant marine life discovered off Galapagos Islands https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/coral-reef-discovered-within-ecuadors-galapagos-marine-reserve/

McDonald’s announced changes to some of its most popular menu items last week, affecting the Big Mac and McDouble, among other things. The fast food giant claims the changes will improve the flavor of its top-performing burgers. The improvements come down to four main changes, according to McDonald’s: better, softer buns, consistently melted cheese, a better sear on the patties, adding white onions to the patties as they are searing to improve the flavor and, simplest of all, more Big Mac sauce. The chain is starting to introduce the burger changes in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, Boise and Tucson. It says many stores in the surrounding area will also participate. US markets are not the first to taste the improved versions of McDonald’s classics. The chain tested the changes in Australia, Canada and Belgium last year. McDonald’s hopes to roll out the burger improvements to all stores by 2024.

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Who Is Jacob Ward? Jacob Ward is a talented actor, director, and producer known for TV projects such as Got Off on the Wrong Foot (2019), Forever & Always (2020), Gutted (2022), and others. Jacob Ward has yet to be featured on Wikipedia. The talented actor was raised by his parents in the United States of America. However, the identity of his parents is unknown to the media. Jacob likes to keep his personal life a secret and avoid media eyes. Jacob Ward's exact birthdate, age, and zodiac sign remain a mystery. The actor is married. He tied the knot to his on June 19, 2021 in Park City, Utah in the presence of their family and friends.

An out man is off to a great start and is the early leader for rookie of the year. JAMES OUTMAN Center Fielder DOB 4/14/1997 (26) BAT/THR Left/Right

She stayed in her lane — by creating her own. The hilarious moment a naughty senior citizen in England rearranged road cones in a botched attempt to bypass traffic was recently captured on video. A video of her game of cones is currently blowing up on Facebook, with viewers joking that she was in a hurry to get to “bingo.” “I couldn’t believe she was actually doing it,” Anthony Foulkes, who filmed and uploaded the incident, told South West News Service. “She had ants in her pants.” Foulkes, who called the unidentified woman “very, very naughty” in his video voiceover, had witnessed the brazen act while waiting for workers to clear an accident near Colchester, Essex, in a stretch already hindered by construction. The uproarious clip shows a row of cars sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic next to a lane that’s bookended by two sets of cones. On the other side of the dividers is a lane with a lot less congestion. All of a sudden, a gray-haired senior departs her car and starts moving the markers about like lawn ornaments in an apparent bid to access the fast lane. In narration, Foulkes can be heard quipping that she is “too posh to wait.” After creating a car-sized gap, she returns to her vehicle and attempts to drive through the newly created opening. Not only that, but the videographer believes that her cone configuration was “all wrong.” “She should have staggered the cones so the gaps were on an angle so she didn’t have to make such a sharp left and then a sharp right,” he explained to SWNS. “She messed it up.” He added that the driver was lucky the “hero” roadworker stopped her or else she might’ve been blindsided by an oncoming truck after entering the fast lane. Viewers were quick to poke fun at the lady’s backfired travel hack. “Stay in your lane ma’am,” joked one quipster, while another wrote, “Oh my goodness. The cheek of some people.” “She’s gotta meet Doris in the pub for a big bingo night,” said a third. Just as she’s about to turn onto the desired stretch of expressway, a road worker intervenes and forces her to reverse her car back into her original lane. The apparently exasperated employee then returns the cones to their original positions. Foulkes was none too impressed with the commuter’s brazen attempt at circumventing congestion. “A lady of her age should know better; if it was a 20-year-old lad, then I’d understand it,” he scoffed. “She couldn’t even lift the cones.” The commuter attempts to cross to the fast lane. Kennedy News and Media Bollocks!

Peter Paige gets bumped up from producer to co-showrunner next season on STATION 19.

Wendy’s is offering free food while Mercury is in retrograde Every now and then the stars align to satisfy all your cravings. Wendy’s is offering free food to help its customers get through Mercury in retrograde between April 21 and May 14. Starting Friday, the fast food chain will have a “Mercury Menu” available on its app with several deals available to astrological adherents who need to get out of their Mercurial misery. “Fans can rest assured that while it may feel like their lives are in the microwave thanks to Mercury … their Wendy’s food never is,” a press release read. Kicking off a rotation of deals, Friday, April 21 — the first day of the Red Planet’s reverse — through Sunday, April 23, the astrological menu offers BOGO $1 premium sandwich, eligible with a purchase. From April 24 to April 30, customers can also score a free crispy chicken sandwich with their purchase. May 1 to May 7 will have free six-piece crispy or spicy chicken nuggets with the purchase of another item. Finally, May 8 to May 14 — the last days of Mercury in retrograde — you can get any size fries with your purchase. When everything else goes wrong during Mercury in retrograde, at least you have free comfort food. Mercury in retrograde marks the time during which the rotation of the planet appears to spin backward, though it does not actually move backward in its orbit.

Cops delivered our pizza — after arresting deliveryman: shocked couple A UK police officer went above and beyond when he brought a couple’s Domino’s pizza to their house — after he had arrested the deliveryman. Toni Robson, 34, and her husband Paul, 41, said they waited an hour and a half for their $57 pizza when they finally decided to call and cancel the order. The couple were just about to make fish sandwiches when their doorbell rang. “To our surprise, it was the police,” Robson told Southwest News Service. “The officer asked my husband, ‘Have you ordered a pizza tonight?’ He replied saying, ‘Erm, yes we have.’ ” “The officer said, ‘Well, we have just arrested the delivery driver on suspicion of drug driving, so thought we would bring you your pizza as I would be really annoyed if it were my pizza just left in the back of his car.’ “ Their cheeseburger and pepperoni passion pizza was “slightly cold,” Robson said, “but still a lot better than the fish finger sandwich we would have been having.” The Post reached out to Domino’s Pizza and the West Yorkshire police department for comment. “The arresting officers delivered the pizza as it was en route to the station,” a spokesperson for the West Yorkshire police department told SWNS. They added that the driver had been released from custody while awaiting the results of a blood test. Not everyone was thrilled with the unexpected delivery. One member of the TaxPayers’ Alliance — a UK group that campaigns for lower taxes — claimed the visit was unnecessary. “This waste of police time will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of taxpayers,” Joe Ventre, the group’s digital campaign manager, said. “The safety of the public and our colleagues is our main priority when our drivers are out delivering pizzas, and all of our delivery drivers complete comprehensive safe driving training when they join our business,” a spokesperson said. “While we’re unable to comment on an open investigation, we are assisting the police with their inquiries on this matter.” Another instance of cheesy justice occurred when a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man managed to thwart a suspected carjacker while he was on his delivery route.

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Move over Shohei Ohtani! Twins utility guy Willie Castro homered in the 7th then pitched the last 1/3 of an inning in today's blowout loss.

A Canadian black bear likely felt a helluva sugar high after guzzling down 69 cans of soda that it pilfered from a woman’s vehicle. Accompanying photos show the sweet-toothed bruin surrounded by crushed cans like the aftermath of a teetotaler’s frat party. “You could hear him, slurping it the whole time,” Sharon Rosel told Jam Press of Cokey the Bear’s pop blitzkrieg, which occurred last Thursday in Vancouver, British Colombia. The Canuck had reportedly been storing 72 cans of pop in her truck that she planned to break out at an upcoming company soiree. Her plans for a soda-filled shindig soon fizzled out after Winnie decided to sate his sugar craving. Rosel was reportedly awoken at 3 a.m. after her dogs started barking, Jam Press reported. She looked out the window to see that the black bear had smashed her car window and was happily chugging down her massive cache of soft drinks. Over the next half hour, the Fizzly bear would mainline a diabetes-inducing 69 cans of cola. Think a PG version of the bear’s epic blow binge from the 2022 horror-comedy “Cocaine Bear.” “He started with the Orange Crush and eventually the last thing he got was the diet pop,” lamented Rosel, adding that the pop pillager had a unique way of accessing the containers. Instead of opening them with his paws like one would suspect, the furry carjacker reportedly used his teeth like calcified can openers. The Canadian said she tried to “reason with him,” but couldn’t dissuade him from his fructose-filled rampage. “I explained to him how important the car was and that I had to go to work the next morning,” she quipped. “That didn’t seem to affect him whatsoever.” The pop cans weren’t the only things that incurred Winnie’s wrath. According to Rosel, the animal ransacked her car, ripping the leather and breaking a window roller during its impromptu happy hour. “Of course, white leather interior goes really good with Orange Crush,” snarked the theft victim, who hopes insurance will cover some of the damage. Rosel explained that the following night the bear returned for seconds, but left empty-pawed She found the attack particularly surprising as she previously considered herself well-prepped for a bear raid, CBC reported. Due to her remote surroundings, Rosel said she never left food or trash in her car overnight but thought nothing of soft drinks as she didn’t think the critters “could smell pop through a can.” However, that’s no problem for a black bear whose sense of smell is about “seven times greater than a bloodhound’s,” per the National Park Service’s website. Meanwhile, the nonprofit Sunshine Coast Bear Alliance notes on its website that bears are adept at infiltrating vehicles. “[Bears] can be attracted to the slightest aroma in your car, such as a candy wrapper or scented air freshener,” they write. “Please keep your vehicle windows closed and locked and doors locked to avoid damage and a surprise encounter.” In a boozier version of this story in 2021, a black bear in Colorado got trapped in a car that it had broken into during an apparent attempt to nab a case of beer. The frustrated critter ended up destroying the interior, presumably out of frustration as it failed to open the box of brew.

Good taste is overrated. As my friend Charlie the Tuna used to be told frequently, Starkist doesn't want tuna with good taste, Starkist wants tuna that tastes good. I think that says it all.

Korean BBQ grilled up right at Murray Hill’s Mapo II http://Golden Piggy: Authentic Korean BBQ in Bayside http://Bayside’s Mister Seoul serves up soulful Korean barbecue Cozy Korean cuisine: Hidden gem in Sunnyside offers Korean comfort food http://Dining Out: Jong Ga: Satisfying Korean barbecue spot in Flushing http://Check out these 10 amazing places in Flushing to grab a flavorful bite to eat http://Korean fried chicken spot in Douglaston among Queens’ hottest new restaurants This chicken rocks, y’all! Eater editors just named Rokstar Chicken – a Korean fried chicken quick-service, takeout and delivery spot in Douglaston – among the 15 hottest new restaurants in Queens. Owner Mark Lee — who noted that the “Rok” in Rokstar stands for Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) — bravely forged ahead and launched his new business in December 2021, amid the ongoing pandemic, because he knew that folks in Queens couldn’t get enough of that “down-home” Korean comfort food. “It’s a New York brand with Korean roots,” Lee said. “Our goal is to globalize Korean fried chicken, and continue to introduce and share our culture with the world through the best way possible: food. And what better food than fried chicken?” Lee told Eater the main focus of the restaurant is high-quality food. “It’ll make you feel like a rockstar,” he said. You can find Rokstar Chicken, conveniently located inside local supermarket Food Bazaar, at 242-02 61st Ave. near Douglaston Parkway. If you stop by and pick up some fried chicken, you can pair it with your choice of unique sauces, like sweet chili, soy garlic barbecue and spicy ranch. Chicken lovers can get a whole chicken, boneless chicken, tenders or wings, as well as a chicken sandwich and other sides. According to Lee, their grand opening weekend was “amazing.” “We sold out of our chicken every day during that weekend. It was really good to have all the locals try our chicken and be excited about it,” he said. A longtime Queens boy who was raised in Flushing and now resides in Bayside, Lee immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea. “Growing up there, my favorite sport was baseball, and the team to watch was Haitai Tigers, representing my hometown, Kwang Ju. They were champions year after year,” Lee said. “When I was 10, I remember going to watch one of their playoff games. The energy was insane, kinda like New Yorkers whenever the Knicks win. But apart from the cheers and smiles, I noticed what seemed like every single person in that stadium had by their side: fried chicken — of course, with a beer.” Korean fried chicken has been around since the 1970s and since then has been a staple in Korean culture and lifestyle. Enjoyed as a meal, snack or anju (food served with drinks), it has become a comfort food for many people. So, why are critics calling Rokstar Chicken one of the hottest restaurants in Queens? “We are bringing Korean flavors with New York attitude! Our chickens are made fresh to order, so it’s juicy, tender, light and very crispy,” Lee said. “We source all our ingredients and work with one of the best manufacturers from Korea.” Lee and his team have many years of experience in the restaurant industry. He also owns a sweets shop called Spot Dessert Bar in Flushing and the East Village, which he has operated for over 11 years. One reviewer described it as “fun and ultra-Instagrammable.” Rokstar Chicken is open Monday through Sunday, from noon to 9 p.m. Prices range from $8 to $35 for a full size box. “What’s my ultimate goal? Think Shake Shack but Korean fried chicken,” Lee said. “Let’s ROK the world together!” It's called click-bait.

‘This is my love letter to my hometown’: Ray Romano’s directorial debut ‘Somewhere in Queens’ has special screening in Manhattan The cast of “Somewhere in Queens,” a new family comedy-drama set in “The World’s Borough” marking Ray Romano’s directorial debut, appeared at a special film screening in Manhattan on Monday, April 18. The new flick tells the story of an Italian-American family living in Queens who are torn apart when their son Sticks (Jacob Ward) faces a big setback after finding success on his high school basketball team. Sticks is on the path to a college sports scholarship but loses interest in the sport when his girlfriend breaks up with him, and so Romano — who plays Sticks’ father, Leo — goes to unexpected lengths to keep his son focused on the game and his future. The film will be released in theaters on Friday, April 21, and also stars actors such as Jennifer Esposito, Laurie Metcalf, Sadie Stanley, Tony Lo Bianco, Deirdre Friel and Jon Manfrellotti, all of whom were in attendance. Rose Byrne was also in attendance, although she does not appear in the movie. Romano, who grew up in Forest Hills and shot to fame in the 1990s for the TV sitcom ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ also co-wrote the script to ‘Somewhere in Queens. “This is my love letter to my hometown Queens,” Romano told Schneps Media at the screening. “I still consider it my home. I live in L.A. now, but the Queens is still in me.” “It was just a great neighborhood,” Romano added. “You knew everyone on the block. You had the pizza place, the schoolyard to hang out — it was very diverse.” Romano said the movie contains a lot of family fun and draws on his own experiences growing up in Queens and being a father to a son who played basketball. “There are pieces from my life, some big, some small,” Romano said. “My son was a high school basketball player who graduated, and when that was coming to an end, I was sad. And so we made a story out of that, about a guy that all he has in his life is his son playing basketball.” “Of course, I grew up in an Italian American Queens household, so I brought all those elements in also,” Romano added. Romano said that much of the movie was shot in various neighborhoods throughout Queens. “The houses that we film in are all in Middle Village, where I moved to after I got married,” Romano said. “We drive by Dominick’s Hotdogs [hot dog truck] on Woodhaven Boulevard. We pass Citi Field where the Mets play… we’re scattered all over Queens.” Some scenes were also shot in Astoria, according to several cast members. Romano said Sticks plays with the Glendale Cougars high school basketball team in the movie. The hoops scenes were filmed at Christ the King Regional High School in Middle Village. The school is an arch-rival to Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, where Romano attended. and I lived across from for 6 years In the movie, Leo lives a simple life in Queens with his wife Angela (Laurie Metcalf), his only child Sticks, and Leo’s close-knit network of Italian American relatives and neighborhood friends. Leo is content working at the family construction business alongside his father (Tony Lo Bianco) and younger brother (Sebastian Maniscalco) and lives each week for Sticks’ high-school basketball games, never missing a chance to cheer on his only child as he rules the court. Sticks, the shy star player for the Glendale Cougars high school basketball team, then gets a surprising and life-changing opportunity to play basketball in college via a sports scholarship and Leo jumps at the chance to provide a plan for his son’s future, and away from the family construction business. But Sticks is overcome with heartbreak when his girlfriend Dani (Sadie Stanley) breaks up with him, which threatens to derail Leo’s plans for his son. Leo then comes up with extraordinary ways to keep his son on the steady path he has laid out for him. ‘Somewhere in Queens’ marks Romano’s first movie as a director, although he said it was not his initial intention when he wrote the script along with co-writer Mark Stegemann. “I had no plans at all to direct and my agent suggested I should do it because it’s a personal story and he twisted my arm pretty good because I was scared,” Romano said. After agreeing to direct the movie, Romano said he was daunted at the challenge before him. “Leading up to it I was a wreck, and then once we started it all went away. The actors were great, and I was happy I did it,” Romano said. “After I was finished, I was happy that I took it on. I would do it again, it’s something I’ve never done before so I have to say it’s an experience of a lifetime. Romano urged people of all ages to come out and see the movie. “Yes, please come out and see it … But you don’t [have] to be from Queens to see it. It’s just fun if you are.”

I saw Donna Summer in concert there in 1979.

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One of the characters on the show is upset that his wife is leaving him because she's having an affair with a Yankee... Nestor Cortes.

A man committed suicide last night by hanging himself either from the roof or out of one of the upper floor windows in a building about a quarter of a mile from me last night. Cops were called after people saw the body dangling outside the building. Just another day in Queens…

http://Lin-Manuel Miranda attends Yankees-Twins game to watch cousin play

I remember the Ronzoni factory on Northern Blvd in Queens.

An Oregon driver made it rain on a local highway after he tossed out an estimated $200,000 from his family’s bank accounts “to bless others,” according to reports. State police said Colin Davis McCarthy, 38, had been chucking wads of $100 bills from his car’s window along Interstate 5 in Eugene, Oregon, on Tuesday, causing other drivers to slow down and collect the unexpected windfall, Oregon State Police said. After troopers located McCarthy’s car, the generous motorist told them that he was “doing well and wanted to bless others with gifts of money,” Oregon State Police told KVAL-TV. Troopers, who were worried that people looking for cash in the dark on the interstate could cause an accident, managed to convince McCarthy to stop tossing the cash. He estimated that the spread around roughly $200,000 that night, which he had procured by emptying his family’s bank account, KEZI reported. McCarthy currently is not facing any charges, although troopers had considered slapping him with reckless endangerment or disorderly conduct. “He could have been charged in a situation like this for danger being created because of his actions—disorderly conduct, potentially reckless endangering, but most likely disorderly conduct,” Andrews said. McCarthy’s family said that his decision to spread the wealth around has left them broke, and are asking anyone who picked up cash earlier this week to return it. Police ultimately can’t help the family because McCarthy’s name is on the account, Oregon State Police Lt. Jim Andrews said. “Because it’s shared, they both have equal interests in the money.” Why can't this sort of thing happen on the Long Island Expressway? It would be no problem picking up the money since traffic is always at a standstill. https://nypost.com/2023/04/15/oregon-driver-tosses-200k-on-interstate-to-familys-horror-reports/

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ENJOY! You can go grocery shopping 2 blocks away at ShopRite or BJs on 20th Ave afterward. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g47511-d1957600-Reviews-Spa_Castle-College_Point_Queens_New_York.html Spa Castle closes after elderly man's death at Queens spa 20 Jan 2015 The elderly man who died at the Queens facility, named Hock Ma, was discovered submerged in a hot tub. The medical examiner said he died of a heart attack, but visitors including the woman who found him were concerned it was a patron and not a staff member who found him. A health inspection of the Queens Spa Castle found the popular bathhouse was dirty and unsafe. According to dnainfo.com, the site lacked proper disinfectant and the pools were overpopulated. Spa Castle also failed to notify the health department within 24 hours of Ma's death. https://www.spaopportunities.com/index.cfm?pagetype=news&codeID=313581 NYC’s ‘sex spa’ is grossing people out March 6, 2016 The Spa Castle in Queens is billed as a sprawling, 22-pool Disneyland of soaks and steams. But some patrons are anything but G-rated. On Sunday mornings, an army of exotic dancers getting off their Saturday night shifts descends on the complex — and it’s not to do laps in the pool. “We open at 6 a.m., and lots of strippers come here after work to unwind,” an employee told The Post. “There’s lots of skinny-dipping and the girls are making out with each other and partying. It looks like the set of a porn movie.” During two recent visits, The Post found patrons in their birthday suits, groping each other, making out and having what appeared to be underwater sex. Last Sunday, the clientele ranged in age from toddlers to octogenarians. But that did not stop a group of five heavily tattooed twenty-somethings from engaging in splashy sexcapades in the 2-foot-deep, heated wading pool on the second floor. House music pulsing, one of the women stripped naked and cheerfully played with her breasts while a woman in a yellow-fringe string bikini and a man looked on. A few minutes later, the nude woman stood in front of the seated man while her hand jerked in and out of the water. A couple made out a few feet away. A male member of the group wondered out loud if they should make a liquor-store run. It was not yet 9 a.m. “There is a big problem with customers having sex in the pools, and the management doesn’t know how to handle it,” said the staffer, speaking anonymously. “Practically every day, couples are caught having sex in the indoor and outdoor pools. They think they are being sly about it, but they’re not. When you see somebody on someone’s lap bouncing up and down and the jets aren’t turned on, you know what’s happening.” The mega-spa is the brainchild of developer Steve Chon, 56, who came to New York from South Korea in 1980 when he was 21. A self-described “gambler” with “big guts,” Chon passed on working at the family laundry and studied engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, according to a profile on Inc.com. For two decades, Chon’s forte was building and renovating Korean-run laundries and nail salons. But in 2005, the developer with champagne tastes purchased a ramshackle warehouse on 11th Avenue in College Point for $3.6 million. He envisioned it as a family-friendly hotel-spa. The spa’s Facebook page has even described its mission to create a “light-hearted, family-oriented” ambience. The community board promptly shot Chon down, “deriding the proposal as a thinly disguised ‘hot sheet’ establishment,” the Queens Gazette reported. But Chon gained the support of then-Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, who helped shepherd the project through a series of city approvals. Today it is New York City’s largest spa, with 300,000 annual visitors and sales of “more than $20 million in recent years,” Chon told Inc.com. He opened a second Spa Castle in Texas in 2012 and a third on East 57th Street in Manhattan in 2014. The $25 million, 100,000-square-foot complex offers 21 spa pools, a wading pool, hydrotherapy baths, high-tech steam rooms, 10 gold-tiled saunas and services like facials and body wraps. After paying a $40 entry fee ($50 on weekends), clients don knee-length shorts and T-shirts — blue for men and hot pink for women — along with a watch that serves as both a locker key and charge card for food, drinks, massages and facials. For an extra $290, a client can book a private VIP room for a 90-minute massage that includes herb tea, cookies, fresh fruits and a 30-minute aromatic Jacuzzi. The wading pool is where much of the action occurs. It’s heated and equipped with underwater jets and a swim-up bar. Drinks like the Spa-tini (gin, Chambord and pineapple juice) or the Brainstorm (rum, Disaronno and pineapple juice) run $18 a pop. There is also a kiddie pool, and the steamy behavior often occurs even as children roam the grounds. “I had to stop going on Saturdays because it was like a full-on, urban high-school orgy in the outdoor pool upstairs,” said Whitney Ward, a 42-year-old Manhattan photographer. “Under-the-water mushroom . . . in the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys’ laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex. I’ve also seen guys rubbing one out the wet way.” One spa-goer saw a young girl smuggled into the men’s dressing room. “When she changed clothes, I was shocked to see breasts,” wrote a Yelp reviewer in November who identified himself as John l from Queens. “I did a double take. ‘What the hell?’ I covered up and told the staff, but they did nothing.” David Chan, 46, a Manhattan retail manager, said he saw two guys “rubbing each other off” in a steam sauna in the locker room. “Now I have this picture in my mind of other men’s sperm swimming around in the hot tubs,” Chan said. “This is supposed to be a place where you can bring your family.” A.S. Bunny, 63, a retired nurse from the East Village, said he was once propositioned. “This tiny Korean man came up to me and said, ‘You got big balls. I like them.’ Another time I saw a guy and a girl in the upstairs pool who were in this massive lip-lock and fooling around in the water. When the guy came out of the pool, he had the biggest erection I had ever seen. “I think all the alcohol that they serve there makes people more sexual.” City law states that “no establishment shall make facilities available for the purpose of sexual activities” and that “such facilities shall constitute a threat to the public health.” Only days after Post inquiries, the city Health Department on Tuesday temporarily shut down all of Spa Castle’s pools. It cited the spa for “not following safety standards” and said the closure grew out of an investigation into a near-drowning on Feb. 19, when a 6-year-old girl’s hair became caught in an underwater vent. Spa Castle on Friday submitted a revised safety plan, which is ­under city review. Between 2014 and 2015, the Health Department cited Spa Castle for 49 violations, including failure to post signs prohibiting discharge of bodily fluids in pools. In January 2015, a Manhattan outpost of Spa Castle, Premier 57 Spa, was shut down by health inspectors for operating without a license. In December 2014, an 84-year-old spa-goer was found dead at the bottom of one of Spa Castle’s outdoor hot tubs. An autopsy revealed he died of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, even though family members insisted he was in good health. “The Health Department has repeatedly inspected Spa Castle to assess compliance with NYC rules about bathing establishments,” said a department spokesman. “The department does not hesitate to take corrective actions, including closures, when an establishment is found breaking the law.” The Post’s findings did not shock state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), who has been lobbying for years to revoke the spa’s license. “I’m not surprised this type of thing is going on at Spa Castle,” he said. “Most of their problems stem from a lack of supervision.” https://nypost.com/2016/03/06/inside-the-sleezy-spa-where-everyone-has-underwater-sex/