FLESH ’N’ BLOOD FEUD FOR TOURIST DOLLARS
It’s naughty versus nice desnudas in ‘Times Bare’ brawl
Open warfare has broken out among the Times Square desnudas.
The painted ladies who strut nearly naked on the Great White Way have split into two distinct battle lines: the foul-mouthed, bird-flipping des-RUDE-as who defiantly leave their police-designated zones; and the star-spangled des-GOOD-as, who adhere to the rules and despise their counterparts’ vulgar antics.
The polite desnudas say their attempts to tame their ill-tempered rivals have been met with bullying and intimidation.
And the conflict has heated up this summer, they say.
The rift began in 2015, when desgooda leader Saira Nicole, 31, asked the desrudas to stop shak- ing their booties in kids’ faces.
“It’s offensive and I pled with them to stop,” Nicole told The Post. “They all jumped down my throat. They told me to f--k off and that I can’t tell them what to do.”
Nicole and two other desnudas broke off to form their own group, leaving the seven remaining desrudas seething.
The two groups have been butting heads — and butts — ever since.
“Sometimes one of us will be working, and they’ll come over and just bump us out of our spots with their hips,” said Jamilee Leary, 19.
Leary, who became a desnuda last summer, was working in one of the “designated activity zones” — areas cordoned off by the city where street performers can le- gally congregate, and solicit photos and tips — when some of the rude desnudas started bullying her.
“They made sure I didn’t get any pictures, not one,” said Leary, of Long Island.
“Every time someone would come up to me, they’d grab them and pull them away from me.”
When Leary tried to stand up for herself, she said the desrudas told her, “You wanna fight?!”
She added, “I told them to stop, but they laughed and said, ‘You wanna fight?!’”
After a Post report last week (Page 1 flashback on opposite page) on the painted performers straying from their zones, which featured a front-page photo of a defiant desnuda flipping the middle finger, the desgoodas decided to go public.
“We’re sick and tired of them giving us a bad name,” fumed Nicole. “I just stand there and feel sick to my stomach because I can’t take it anymore.”
The well-mannered desnudas said they are careful to mind the blue boundaries of the designated activity zones.
“If they come to our box we have to move to another one, or move to the opposite end of it,” said Nicole, of Manhattan.
On Thursday, two rude desnudas continued to push customers for more money, physically grab passers-by for photos and aggressively follow pedestrians.
“Five each! Five each!” one snapped at an older man, who had to beckon his wife over and ask her to fork over more cash to the desnudas who began crowding him.
“They act like we have a fee and we’re charging people,” said Nicole. “You can’t do that.”
A rude desnuda spotted a reporter snapping photos and stormed over.
“Don’t take pictures of us!” she roared, while the other stuck up her middle finger at Leary.
“How come we can keep our cool, but you can’t?” Leary retaliated.
“Because we’re Latin and you’re American!” the desnuda shot back.
The desgoodas take pride in their work.
In the end, the desgoodas will triumph where it counts: in tips, they say.
Their red, white and blue paint jobs, done by Jennifer Adams, 33, are more detailed than those of the desrudas.
They make sure to wear matching thongs. Most importantly, they realize they can catch far more more flies — and more fivers — with honey.
“In the time it takes other girls to harass people, we will have taken 10 more photos,” said Nicole.
“We don’t want the other girls to quit,” said the third desgooda, Angel Bunting, 34. “We just want them to clean up their act.”
We’re sick and tired of them giving us a bad name. Desnuda Saira Nicole on a group of pushy painted ladies