October 12, 2007
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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I despise the naked cowboy. how can he call himself the naked cowboy when he's not naked?
I really think it's just tourists who pay attention to him.
please let this be this year's ugg.
I am surprise the NYPD didn't put this hipster out of his misery with extreme prejudice. Why do NYers have to suffer with the images of his shame etched in their heads? These stunts would not stop until NYPD has cleaned out the hipster infestation in Billyburg once and for all.
BTW, i just LOVE the "yo homeboy" quote!
People walk around in Times Square naked all the time...
wasnt this a chris rock skit? Where a character tried to get served naked at olive garden and tried to hail a cab.
this is what happens when midwest hipsters move to New york and realize their darkest fantasies about living in the apple.
Seriously, don't New Yorkers have jobs?
I like the coincidental placement of the "exit only" sign.
WHAT A WACKY GUY!
dude's only 26? looks like a 35 year old to me
Dude69, Greenpoint is not Williamsburg...
josh dude keep your quill in the ink jar when you're outside you attention seeking douche - less than 15 minutes i'm sure
This shouldn't be important unless it's
*hard* news.
#11 whatever, hipsters should be hunted down at whereever they dwell.
Tad's Steakhouse? Blecch!
dude69? more like douche69, another average douche who thinks he's being shocking
Don't tase me, bro!
I walked by as they had him on the ground in some sort of nylon body length "straight jacket".
Cop 1: "You taking him?"
Cop 2: "I thought you said you were taking him!"
Cop 1: "Nope. He's all yours."
One hot tater.
He got the cover of the post for THAT? snore. Anyone have links to the unedited versions? Hahah!
all haters are jealous of this guys comfort with his body. this guy is doing what he wants. we come into the world this way.
His Facebook profile, for the curious.
the! best! news! all! week! hilarious!
I bet that guests 16 and 20 are jobless hipsters, and were naked while typing in their comments
Why doesn't a women do this now :-P
The guy is naked and people can still find some way to label him a hipster? Unbelievable.
did he get fined or arrested at all...indecent exposure?!?
Awesome just Awesome. Naked is fine by me. If you are that comfortable with your body, why shouldn't I be?
@24
I was hopeing for the same thing.
He walked around for several minutes naked in the Times Square area? Where was the NYPD? Did they have a problem identifying who the perp was? They are blind ass pieces of shit if you ask me. Shut down the doughnut shops and get these guys back to work. What if this was a dude carrying heavy assault weapons? How many people could he have taken out in several minutes.
Where's commish Kelly now? Also where is Al Sharpton? He always shows up for the side show freaks.
douche69, you will always be douche with your pointless insults and comments, i have a job and i am not naked, but i can tell even with your job and clothes those things cannot cover up your supreme infinite doucheness
@25:
Yes. You hipster.
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.
He's a hipster because he lives in greenpoint and the post says so?
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..)
He shoudl have at least given his dad fair warning.
More people should be naked.
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.
dude should go to a chiropracter. He has major lordosis and scoliosis.
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
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.
#30 I think you might have had one too many PBRs, dumbass!
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, 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!
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
i heart ny.
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.
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
He has a cute ass though.
Poor moron.
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).
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
#50 i just eat em and smile!