Desnudas of Times Square: Difference between revisions
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|description_of_incident=''The New York Daily News'' has run multiple articles lambasting the topless performance artists, and an August 16, 2015 cover with the title "Bust This Flesh Pit: Growing Surge of Topless Hustlers Defiles City." Criticism has frequently claimed that children in the public space should not be exposed to topless women. | |description_of_incident=''The New York Daily News'' has run multiple articles lambasting the topless performance artists, and an August 16, 2015 cover with the title "Bust This Flesh Pit: Growing Surge of Topless Hustlers Defiles City." Criticism has frequently claimed that children in the public space should not be exposed to topless women. | ||
''The New York Times'' quoted NYPD Commissioner William Bratton as disapproving of the practice, but | ''The New York Times'' quoted NYPD Commissioner William Bratton as disapproving of the practice, but unable find a legal basis for removing them: | ||
"'It drives me crazy when at Times Square you see the naked people there covered in body paint as an expression of art,'" Mr. Bratton said in a recent interview with City & State magazine on the subject of questionable street behavior. Yet, he added: 'We’ve researched that top to bottom and we cannot find any law that allows us to interfere with that freedom of expression reflected through art form.'" | "'It drives me crazy when at Times Square you see the naked people there covered in body paint as an expression of art,'" Mr. Bratton said in a recent interview with City & State magazine on the subject of questionable street behavior. Yet, he added: 'We’ve researched that top to bottom and we cannot find any law that allows us to interfere with that freedom of expression reflected through art form.'" |