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A bouncer was shot twice when someone opened fire outside a Long Island City strip club Monday morning, police said.

The 42-year-old man was struck in the shoulder and leg around 4:40 a.m. while guarding the door to Show Palace Gentleman’s Club — which bills itself as “New York’s #1 All-Nude Gentleman’s Club” — on 21st Street and 43rd Avenue.

The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and is in stable condition, police said.

Surveillance footage from a nearby restaurant shows two men running from the scene around that time — one with what appears to be a large gun in his hand.

A truck driver who was just arriving to work at a warehouse nearby at around 4:30 a.m told The Post he heard gunshots from around the corner on 13th Street and 43rd Avenue,

“It sounded consistent — like eight shots, one behind each other, like do-do-do-do. It sounded like an automatic gun”, said Nick, 26.

Shortly after the shots fired, he says he watched two men flee on foot down 43rd Avenue, towards the East River.

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