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Massage parlors busted in ‘sex acts’ sting

There was no happy ending for a Brooklyn Heights massage parlor that allegedly dispensed sexual favors as stroller-pushing mommies passed by its windows.

The nondescript Blue Diamond Health Center on leafy Henry Street — just doors from the popular and family friendly Tazza coffee shop — had allegedly been doling out sex acts on the sly since at least 2009. Its owners were busted by investigators for the Brooklyn DA’s Office on Saturday.

The business was dismantled in a weekend-long crackdown by the DA that shuttered five alleged “rub-and-tug” joints in the borough.

The ground-floor storefront landed on authorities’ radar after owner Yun Feng Zhang, 30, allegedly beat up a worker at his other Greenpoint parlor when she refused to give in to a customer’s kinky demands, a source said.

“He tells her the customer is God and punches her multiple times,” the source said.

Zhang and his wife, Yan Liu, 33, were both slapped with charges, including sex trafficking.

One neighborhood resident said in an online post that both her hubby and father-in-law had been propositioned there. Halfway through her husband’s rubdown, the masseuse yanked off his towel “and made the gesture of a handjob” — which the wife said he politely declined.

“I was horrified,” she wrote in an e-mail posted by curbed.com. “I know things like this happen in Chinatown, but this is Brooklyn Heights, this is MY neighborhood.”

The reputed pleasure palace is listed in several online “erotic massage” directories, claiming on one: “We are so raring to go and give you pleasure that we are offering our services with affordable rates.”

But patrons offered limp reviews, saying the masseuses were mostly ugly women in their 40s who offered “uninspired” handiwork with “little to no soft touch, no artistry involved, not even any fake moaning.”

“Massage is mediocre at best. The girl I had didn’t even pretend to like me and not so friendly. Every time she spoke, it irritated me,” wrote a reviewer at the spahunters.com Web site.

Nonetheless, some patrons noted the “great location” and said it attracted “a steady stream of customers.”

The five busted massage parlors were run by two separate rings of Chinese and Russian operators, authorities said. “At least one of the parlors had multiple condoms inside, suggesting more than just ‘rub-and-tugs’ were taking place,’’ a law-enforcement source said.

DA Charles Hynes called the businesses “despicable” and praised the community for contacting his office about them.

Additional reporting by Bruce Golding