This is all a result of the Guiliani/Bloomberg/DeBlasio administrations thinking they could turn the eternally dark and gritty Times Square area into a tourist Disneyland. It’s probably built over an Indian burial ground or something - it will always be a problem and no Disney Store, no unemployed actor dressed up as the Statue of Liberty is going to change how it attracts crooks, pickpockets, whores and hustlers. In fact, in this area, Lady Liberty is a crook herself!
Get rid of the pedestrian walkways, open it up to traffic and get break down the ludicrous and embarrassing grandstands set up as if the area was a mid-western small town about to watch a minor league baseball game.
Miss Marmelstein, are you New Yorker, as I have been for that last 31 years? Or are you a New York liberal?
Giuliani did indeed transform Times Square...for the much, much better.
Can I assume that you dream for the old days when Times Square was full of drug addicts, prostitutes, bums, porn shops and petty criminals?
What absurdity led you to connect the incident of the male model to one of Giuliani’s greatest triumphs?