Topless Times Square women deal with groping, long hours and must share tips
Performers said Sunday they work up to 12-hour days and constantly cope with groping customers. Some even answer to shady bosses who take cuts of their cash.
“It doesn’t matter if you have your period, or if you are feeling terrible, or if your mom dies. You are a character here, so the people are seeing your face and you have to smile,” said Hannah Nicole Rubiano, 25, from Colombia…
De Blasio says Topless Times Square performers need to go, supports The News’ ‘parkland’ push
Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday he too is no fan of the topless Times Square tarts — and that he likes The Daily News’ idea for ousting them by designating the area “parkland.”
“I thought that editorial was a helpful suggestion,” de Blasio said. “I don’t know if that’s fully attainable but we want all ideas on the table and we certainly appreciate what the Times Square Association has put forth as well. This situation is going to change. This is what I’ll guarantee you.”
The News, in a Monday editorial, said it would be illegal for the brazen belles with painted breasts to hassle tourists and others for tips if Times Square was a public park.
Father Duffy Square, at the north end of Times Square, is already parkland and thus a no-go zone for panhandlers, both the nearly naked kind and the ones in costumes…
Sex crimes increasing alarmingly in New York City After Toplessness Increase
New Yorkers are engaging in more sex crimes these days, according to an article in the New York Post.
In the report, the paper says all sexual crimes have increased across board.
It wrote:
“Misdemeanour sexual assaults as of Sunday night this year increased by 20 percent over the same period in 2014, from 1,003 to 1,203.
“But they shot up 75 percent for the week ending Sunday compared to the same week last year — from 45 to 79.
“And they were also up 45 percent for the month of May compared to May 2014, climbing to 284 incidents from 196.
“Such misdemeanors include forcible touching, sexual misconduct, second- and third-degree sexual abuse and third-degree patronizing a prostitute. They include crimes such as groping on subways and buses.
“Felony sex crimes — such as forcible rape, predatory sexual assault against a child, sex trafficking and sodomy — were also up across the board. Year to date, such felonies are up 8 percent, from 502 to 540.
“And for the month of May compared with May 2014, they rose 22 percent, from 92 to 112.”
Senator: Ban Toplessness
The naked ladies of Time Square, who paint over their breasts and who for many years have posed with tourists for a few dollars, are on the run.
Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, told the New York Times that these characters frequently harass tourists in an effort to make money.
A Reuters witness could not find any painted topless women walking the area on Thursday following a media storm over reports they were behaving aggressively, but one veteran guitar-strumming crooner was not upset.
De Blasio said that other ideas could include converting the plaza into city parkland where panhandling is banned or designating a particular area of Times Square for the women and characters.
“I’d prefer to just dig the whole damn thing up and put it back the way it was.”
Anyone who’s had the misfortune of visiting Times Square lately knows it’s descended to a Hobbesian thunderdome whereoff-brand spider men square off againt anti-Semitic Elmos to see who can grope the most teens in one day. Somehow, this has led to cries of outrage from the city’s progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio, New York’s democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, and, less surprisingly, its police commissioner, William Bratton. If the women don’t want to go-and if they consider themselves free why would they?-the police would have to use force to accomplish what New Yorkers want done.
In the newspaper, instead of reporting the nice things that people say about us, despite the fact that maybe 95 out of 100 people that walk past me smile at me or look happy or start laughing, or say hello, no, there’s just one or two people that say, “Oh, it’s disgusting” or “It’s frightful”. Cuomo separately told a reporter, “This activity is illegal”. They may also be protected under the first amendment’s free speech provisions.
Warning that Times Square is again becoming the immoral “pit of the nation”, Bronx state Sen.
“You won’t see them today”, the Hulk said, grinning through his rubber mask.
He even declared on Thursday that he may get rid of the pedestrian plaza at the center of Times Square that the Bloomberg administration spent $55 million to create. It will include members from nine different city agencies including the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD. Some travelers through Times Square have complained that all of the panhandlers are far too aggressive, physically touching visitors and entreating them to cash tips. The LAPD fielded complaints about aggressive panhandling and fighting among masked competitors.
A spokesman for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, normally a reliable de Blasio ally, said she “believes in and supports pedestrian plazas”.
‘Commissioner Bratton and I have talked about that option.
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