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New York’s jiggle-joint owners are shaking in their boots that the number of strip clubs in town could contract from about 20 to less than eight if the city starts enforcing a ruling made last year that the clubs can’t be in residential areas. After a years-long court battle, a Manhattan judge ruled last year that strip clubs can no long­er operate under the so-called 60-40 rule, which allowed the mammary meccas to keep on shimmying in otherwise restricted zones as long as 60 percent of the club was used for “non-adult” entertainment, such as a restaurant. Explained one top club owner: “Last year was the last hurrah. That’s the end of 60-40.” But he said that the city has not been enforcing the zoning code — until now. “The hammer is coming down on this; it’s only weeks or months away. There are 20, give or take, clubs acting in New York — this law could get them down to between four and eight.” That has left some clubs scrambling to expand to new locations, not in residential are...