Chris Jordan

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Don’t mess with these ladies — they mean business.

Their business is keeping you safe at area concerts and nightclubs. Casey Sky Noon, 31, of South Brunswick and Tamy Kostadinova, 21of East Brunswick, are part of a growing contingent of female bouncers in Jersey.

“I’m nice until I have to be not nice,’ said Noon, who works for a security company that covers at the Starland Ballrom in Sayreville, the MAC Center at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Convention Hall and the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park and more. “If there’s 2,000 people in a room, you need to make sure everybody is safe and having a good time. You help maintain the peace. De-escalate things before anything gets out of control. You have to see things before they happen. If a person is too rowdy in a crowd, you ask them to calm down before someone else makes them.”

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Being female can have its advantages.

“Sometimes being a woman helps me to de-escalate a situation,” said Noon, who has a pleasant, easy laugh. “I can walk up to an angry drunk man without being intimidating. I’m trying to help you, calm down, come talk to me outside where we can hear each other. That works 50 percent of the time and I give it a try every time.”

It’s going to be something of a moment for female bouncers when the remake of the Patrick Swayze cult classic “Road House” hits theaters. It’s going to star MMA fighter Rhonda Rousey in Swayze’s role as the small-town bouncer with the big heart.

Noon estimates that one out of every 10 bouncers in Jersey are female. Sometimes the job needs a female touch.

“If a woman is passed out, they’ll call me to pick her and not one of the males,” Noon said. “She might have body parts falling out and you have to be more gentle, dealing with a woman.”

Female bouncers are breaking down traditional gender roles. Kostadinova has been at the Fire N Ice Hookah Bar & Lounge in Fords for the last two months.

“My dream was I always wanted to be a bouncer, but I didn’t do it before because didn’t look the part,” said Kostadinova. “I didn’t feel the part. I didn’t feel confident enough to do it. but at this point in my life I feel I can do anything. I thought that working as a female bouncer, that some males and even some females wouldn’t take me seriously, but everybody takes me seriously here. If I tell them to do something and they give me an attitude, they’re out of here and nobody says anything back to me. I guess they get like a vibe from me.”

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Kostadinova is known as Russian Muscles in area gyms. She can deadlift 350 pounds and squat 305.

“She doesn’t take nothing from nobody here,” said Chris Torain, also a bouncer at Fire N Ice, about Kostadinova. “She breaks up fights. She’s quick to jump in.

“Everybody comes up and says, ‘Oh my God, who’s that girl working at the front door?’ ”

When she’s not on the job, Kostadinova has a warm smile.

“I’m the coolest person that you’ll meet,” Kostadinova said. “I love working here. I meet so many cool people. I love the nightlife. I love watching people and I love doing it.”

People watching is a benefit of bouncing.

“It’s the best people watching ever,” Noon said. “For me, to see all the different subcultures that go along with the different genres of music, it’s just so interesting.”

Noon also met her husband on the job.

“I was working the smoking section and you have to stand there all day so you start to talk to people,” Noon said. “We started talking.”

Noon eventually bounced him to the wedding altar.

Chris Jordan: cjordan@app.com

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