Naked in New York

A 26-year-old Yale graduate and Greenpoint resident got a lot of attention in Times Square yesterday - and the NY Post's cover today - by walking around naked. The Post reports that Josh Drimmer was walking in his birthday suit for "several minutes" around 11AM along Seventh Avenue between West 47th and 48th Streets. Reporter Jennifer Fermino overheard one witness calling a friend on his cellphone and saying, "Yo, homeboy's got full-frontal nudity right here!"

At first, Drimmer was wearing one black sock, but then "he ditched the sock and went the full monty." He tried to get into the Olive Garden to, no avail, (competing breadsticks?), went into Tad's Steakhouse, and then was stopped by the police. Apparently someone found his clothes and brought them over, but Drimmer refused to wear them and was taken to Bellevue for observation.

People were alternately amused and jaded: One said, "I want to be on what he's on," while another said, "The Naked Cowboy's always here. What's the difference?" Drimmer's father told the Post he didn't know why his son was naked in Times Square.

Update: Drimmer has a blog, Excellence Makes Wack Irrelevant, and he reads Gothamist! Readers, which one of you will be next to wander the streets without a shred of clothing?

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By Jen Chung in News on October 12, 2007 10:06 AM

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guest

#50 i just eat em and smile!

guest

seems to people like #49 life is just a series of pop culture ebbs and tides not the on going miasma that is really is, new york will never be dead or boring, rather you sound like an old disappointed lonely person

guest

Josh Drimmer, is only one of about 500,000 false hipsters who have RUINED new york with their divorced parents trust funds. See this is why i left new york, and am now waiting for real estate to drop to 10 cents on the dollar. He is the true image and definition of why NEW YORK IS DEAD. Boring. ARTIFACT. It died in 1991. Its a new city where the native new yorker is long gone. Real people? lol. New York is no longer is no longer a place where the spectrum of opinions meet. All you need is a $450 tight 'CHE!' tee and a frappacino w/ sprinkles accessorized with a 'fuck bush' dog colar, and you have made it! Remember kids, make it here, you can make it anywhere.....and now - onto the next generation (clock is ticking).

jammer

He has a cute ass though.

Poor moron.

guest

douche69, no one is worked up here, if you feel you can work anybody up that again is your self-deluded doucheness shining (or rather vomiting) through, double the laughs on you douchebag, haha

also seems you have a thing for envisioning nude dudes in your posts, you must be a real ass rimmer, congratulations

Dude69

It's just too easy to get the hipster mass all worked up, time to turn off the guest comments.

Also I am sure Drimmer reads the Gothamist in the nude.

guest

i heart ny.

guest

to #43 it's not dude69 it's douche69 for that guy, look how pithy he is saying I had one too many pbrs, what wit! i myself don't drink pbrs so douche69 once again you prove you are the ultimate douchebag dumbass

guest

Dude69, you sound like a very intelligent and self-actualized person. you're like an endless fountain of wisdom. i just can't get enough of your brilliant insights!

greenpointers

Drimmer's father told the Post he didn't know why his son was naked in Times Square.

I bet Drimmer's father also didn't know why he wasted money sending his son to Yale.

Dude69

#30 I think you might have had one too many PBRs, dumbass!

JRod5417

I wonder who whe was talking to on his cellphone when he was freeballing down Times Square. Trying to make a reservation at Nobu? Talking to Yale Student Alumni Services? Paying his credit card bill? Just curious.

Austin Baird

Jen

You say

Readers, which one of you will be next to wander the streets without a shred of clothing?

Let me assure you and ALL Gothamists - ain't nobody in the whole wide world wants to see ME naked lol

guest

dude should go to a chiropracter. He has major lordosis and scoliosis.

guest

Why does the Post think this happens only in NYC. About ten years ago there was a student at UC Berkeley who went to all his classes nude. And the Bay to Breakers road race in SF has naked runners all the time.

matthew

More people should be naked.

Reality Czech

He shoudl have at least given his dad fair warning.

guest

SO. BORED. WITH THE ANTI-HIPSTER SHIT. The only thing more pathetic and boring than hipsters is people who do nothing but bitch about them. Seriously guys, can't we talk about something else?

(And maybe if you stop paying attention to them they'll go away..)

guest

He's a hipster because he lives in greenpoint and the post says so?

guest

is it sad that this man is just going as nature intended and the society of man has said that he is breaking the law of man? Brave New World indeed.