Undah da Bridge

Here's my satirical and sexy fashion commentary on the real New York. Former NYC mayor, Rudy Giuliani, spent countless hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to eradicate the sex industry from Times Square. Even buildings were moved along tracks to make way for the Disney-fication of midtown Manhattan.

However, despite its push out of Times Square, NYC prostitution did not disappear. Instead, it has been forced to operate in Uptown Manhattan, in the Bronx and in Queens often near or under many of New York's bridges and highway systems.

During Guiliani's last years in office, the NYPD "swept" prostitution out of Times Square--much to the delight of tourists and to the dismay of the Port Authority crowd. Ironically, news stories broke about how some NYPD officers were partaking in the sex industry either by taking payoffs or by getting free sexual services in order to let the escort services thrive.

Here's my tribute to those pimps and hos.

A version of this was published on FantasticsMag. Thanks, James!

Photography, Art Direction and Styling by Ricardo Muñiz. Models: William Jiménez, Tamala DeJesús and Randy Corona.