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Painted tot shock: Desnuda paints daughter’s chest in Times Square
A street performer drew outrage Monday when she paraded around Times Square topless and in a short skirt — with her infant daughter dressed the same way.
Black paint covered the woman’s breasts, and her little girl — who looked about 2 years old — also bore a black stripe across her otherwise bare chest.
Pedestrians gawked as the woman brandished two red letters, N and Y for New York.
She kneeled on the pavement and tried to get her look-a-like tyke to wave them, pictures captured by Reuters show.
Moments later, a cop approached and ordered the mom to cover up the tiny tot, which she did.
Stef Watakins, 32, a visitor from Louisiana, said the cop had done the right thing.
“I think she should be covered. The baby ... doesn’t understand what’s going on. There are strange people in the world, and this is Times Square,” the tourist said.
Spencer Jones, 31, from Maryland, put it in even stronger terms.
“That’s disgusting,” he said. “A mother should have better judgment than to do that to the kid ... who knows what someone could have done.”
But another tourist from Ohio didn’t see anything amiss. “I used to roam around naked when I was a kid,” said Jane Tavarez, 45.
“Babies are naked all the time. Why should this be different?” she added.
The city has recently created a task force to come up with a solution to the tawdry characters who troll Times Square for tourist tips — including the desnudas, topless women with painted breasts who pose for pictures in exchange for gratuities.
Bronx resident Andrea Adams, 22, who was strolling through Times Square with her baby niece strapped to her chest, agreed the street-performing mother went too far.
“I wouldn’t do it,” she said, but added, “it doesn’t shock me. It’s Times Square, New York.”
A street performer drew outrage Monday when she paraded around Times Square topless and in a short skirt — with her infant daughter dressed the same way.
Black paint covered the woman’s breasts, and her little girl — who looked about 2 years old — also bore a black stripe across her otherwise bare chest.
Pedestrians gawked as the woman brandished two red letters, N and Y for New York.
She kneeled on the pavement and tried to get her look-a-like tyke to wave them, pictures captured by Reuters show.
Moments later, a cop approached and ordered the mom to cover up the tiny tot, which she did.
Stef Watakins, 32, a visitor from Louisiana, said the cop had done the right thing.
“I think she should be covered. The baby ... doesn’t understand what’s going on. There are strange people in the world, and this is Times Square,” the tourist said.
Spencer Jones, 31, from Maryland, put it in even stronger terms.
“That’s disgusting,” he said. “A mother should have better judgment than to do that to the kid ... who knows what someone could have done.”
But another tourist from Ohio didn’t see anything amiss. “I used to roam around naked when I was a kid,” said Jane Tavarez, 45.
“Babies are naked all the time. Why should this be different?” she added.
The city has recently created a task force to come up with a solution to the tawdry characters who troll Times Square for tourist tips — including the desnudas, topless women with painted breasts who pose for pictures in exchange for gratuities.
Bronx resident Andrea Adams, 22, who was strolling through Times Square with her baby niece strapped to her chest, agreed the street-performing mother went too far.
“I wouldn’t do it,” she said, but added, “it doesn’t shock me. It’s Times Square, New York.”
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