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You can go topless any day of the week. Yes, ladies, you too: It’s been city law since 1992. Chances are, however, outside of the occasional random celebrity photo — looking at you, Scout Willis , and your 2014 LES #FreetheNipple campaign — you more often than not see folks opting for shirts.
As a reminder of everyone’s right to eschew the top layer when the mood strikes, GoTopless Day returns, along with its annual parade . That’s actually parades, plural, as they’re scheduled around the globe, but your local option is Sunday in midtown. It’s generally on the lighter side — feel free to break out those “equali-titty” and “breast of friends” signs — but it isn’t exhibitionism for exhibitionism’s sake.
“It’s not about showing off our boobs,” organizer Kasyo Perrier says. “It’s about freedom, and encouraging women to feel safe in their bodies.”
It’s a right to bare … more than arms.
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Walk into the newly opened West Village Comics and know one thing: What you’re seeing is just a “quarter of a quarter” of a single storage unit. And owner Kurt Bollers has multiple storage spaces filled with the comic books he’s collected since he was a 6-year-old boy in Guyana.
“They made me want to learn to read, because I would look at the pictures and make up words,” Bollers recalls. “By the time I was in eighth grade, I had a college reading level because comics really pushed me to read a lot.”
Education awaits comic lovers stepping into a store filled with graphic novels on through valuable, graded titles that start at $100. More casual fans can thumb through less exclusive books housed in boxes along the back of the space.
Regardless of price, Bollers, now 55, may have quantity, but he aims for quality.
“You’re not getting a beat-up copy. It doesn’t work like that,” Bollers says. “I like repeat customers.”
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