Eyder Peralta. Women who walk around Times Square in New York City wearing nothing but paint over their breasts have been at the toplese of controversy the past few weeks. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants the women — known as «desnudas» or the naked ones — to go. He even threatened to dismantle the pedestrian plazas built in Times Square to toplesss it so. But de Blasio is facing a complicated legal landscape that is underpinned by a state court decision in The story starts on June 21, when a group of women decided to protest a law that appeared to make going topless illegal. Here’s how the Village Voice described the protest in Nine women took off their shirts and waited for police to arrest. The activists were charged with violating New York state penal law section The law went on to spell out a crucial gender distinction: On ‘a female person,’ said ‘parts’ included ‘that portion of the breast which is below the top of the areola. Santorelli and...