The phrase
"costumed characters" refers to people who dress up in costumes to portray a specific character.
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CITY HALL — A small group
of costumed characters confronted Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez outside the City Hall chambers after the Council passed a bill that will allow the city to restrict their activity to designated zones in Times Square.
Travel back in time
with costumed characters from colonial times, craft, and enjoy maple treats when Moose Hill hosts a series of Maple Sugaring Weekends (Sharon)
Then, yesterday, Mr. de Blasio said he was considering tearing out Mr. Bloomberg's Times Square pedestrian plaza — a symbol of the last administration's clean - air, business - friendly agenda — to keep nearly naked ladies and strange
costumed characters from plying their trade at the crossroads of the world.
Aggressive
costumed characters who pose for pictures to drum up dollars in the Theater District are driving away customers from one of the city's biggest draws, industry leaders said.
This free event features breakfast with Santa, an ice sculpture carving demonstration,
costumed character appearances, a preview performance of The Nutcracker and so much more!
The committee met to discuss a bill by Bronx Councilman Andy King that would create a system of licensing and regulations
for costumed characters similar to the one that governs street vendors.
The weekend of the reopening (Feb. 19 - 21), the newly branded Nintendo NY store will host a series of reopening activities, including giveaways (while supplies last) and appearances
by costumed characters like Mario and Luigi.
Enjoy breakfast and lunch with Santa, ice sculpture carving, cookie decorating, four
costumed characters at local businesses, caroling with 4th Ward Alderman Sophia King, a mini preview performance of «The Nutcracker» by the Hyde Park School of Dance, two live reindeer, and Buddy the Elf.
Learn about the history of Halloween from a Druid,
encounter costumed characters along a candle - lit trail, and then enjoy a campfire sing - a-long with popcorn and drinks.
Halloween Prowl at Moose Hill, where you'll learn about the history of Halloween from a Druid, encounter
costumed characters along a candle - lit trail, and then enjoy a campfire sing - a-long with popcorn and drinks (Sharon)
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.
Mr. Cuomo's comments come a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio, with whom he does not always see eye to eye, also said he'd seek to regulate the topless women — but warned First Amendment issues have made it hard to regulate Times Square «performers,»
like costumed characters, who ask for (or demand) tips.
Candlewick Press was the inaugural sponsor of «Hubbub at the BBF,» an expansion of the BBF's children's programming
featuring costume characters, a music class for preschoolers, and hands - on projects and activities curated by partner organizations.
Not only will there be Instagram - worthy opportunities with Santa and Mrs. Claus, but other friendly
animal costumed characters will also make an experience.
«It requires about 150 volunteers,
including costumed characters, who scare people both on the grounds and in the buildings, and non-costumed volunteers who help with logistics,» DeFalco said.
Corey Johnson, Council District 3, Manhattan (Incumbent)-- Johnson, who's running for his second term, distinguished himself as a vocal proponent of the Times Square pedestrian plaza when an uproar erupted
over costumed characters and desnudas in 2015.
De Blasio dismissed the surge of aggressive desnudas and
other costumed characters in Times Square as fake news, right before his own police commissioner admitted that cops are issuing more summonses to the scofflaw panhandlers.
An animated sort of order came to Times Square yesterday,
penning costumed characters and other tip seekers to painted zones within its plazas.
Both politicians have also cited badly
behaved costumed characters who have been menacing the area for years, though it seems that the breasts are garnering much quicker action.
Brokers are giving rave reviews to a proposal to clean up Times Square by confining tip -
seeking costumed characters and topless performers to a designated «activity zone.»
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday he has a surefire way to get rid of the
pushy costumed characters in Times Square — «just dig the whole damn thing up!»
While the
DIY costumes the characters wear certainly bring up memories of Mad Max, I think it borrows that and, perhaps, the eccentric characters that populate this world, but that's about it.
The Fantastic Four — the company's first superhero series in many years — had been so successful that
new costumed characters had muscled their way into the sci - fi / horror anthology comics that had formerly been the core of their line.
Legion, The Gifted, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Gotham, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Inhumans — each television series featured
more costumed characters than we could count.
Full details coming in next week's Cel Shaded Report, but for now, let's just say that there will be
costumed characters aplenty, possibly at a library near you.
It's set on 10 acres (25 acres) of an original mining site, and
costumed characters bring the shops, hotels, theatre, school, factories, gold diggings and underground mines to life.
The preorder program kicked off on May 15th, and players can check out the alternate
costume character art and new trailer here.
Brian Bress, a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker, creates absurd, circularly narrative films driven by the circumstances of a bizarre cast of
ridiculously costumed characters, more often than not played by Bress himself.
Within her fantastical settings Maclean parodies fairy tales, children's television programmes, beauty product advertising, internet videos, and pop culture playing all the
extravagantly costumed characters herself.
With dozens of
fully costumed characters (mimes, demons, hillbillies, starlets), the videos that comprise this compilation were originally placed within twenty - five installations in a phantasmagoric gallery exhibition.
The mayor — who has launched a task force headed by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and City Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod to determine how to ban body - paint - wearing ladies and
costume characters from soliciting cash — said he was open to ending pedestrian plazas in the busy district.
Beginning at 8 p.m. in Room 1B01 of the Javits Center, the event will include appearances
by costumed characters, trivia contests and a chance for fans to play the Professor Layton and the Last Specter game, the fourth installment in the Professor Layton puzzle adventure series.
The ticket blitz came as Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton ordered police to crack down on «desnudas» and
costumed characters in order regulate commerce along the area's pedestrian plazas.
«Yet that experience has been diminished by the proliferation of topless individuals and
costumed characters who too often harass people and expose families to inappropriate acts.
Doctor Strange is the last mainstream superhero movie of 2016, a year that has seen its fair share
of costumed characters.
More cops will patrol Times Square to rein in bare - breasted women and
costumed characters as part of a plan restricting performers to specific zones, officials said Wednesday.
Not to be missed: «Super Saturdays» include themed storytimes
with costumed characters, special activities, and plain old silliness galore, for ages 5 - 7.