‘Desnudas’ Are Back in Times Square as New Bill Aims To Regulate Performers
(DNAINFO) Maya Rajamani | March 9, 2016 — The warm weather brought out tourists, as well as topless performers.
The resurfacing of the controversial performers comes as City Council members including Dan Garodnick, Corey Johnson and Ydanis Rodriguez introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow the city’s Department of Transportation to set rules regulating activity in pedestrian plazas throughout the city.
The legislation comes less than a year after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he had formed a task force to determine how to deal with aggressive costumed characters and painted topless women known as “desnudas” who ask tourists and passersby for tips in Times Square.