We'll Take the Stairs

A reader sent us an email with, "I needed to share! Only in New York err Brooklyn I guess..." and a link to an image... which is after the jump--it's NSFW. Also Not Safe for Anyone Eating or Drinking. You have been warned!

Photograph taken by vaduzuvunt on Flickr, via The Boots and Bangs Club

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By Jen Chung in News on September 12, 2008 4:56 PM

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pazzia

totally awesome in a really bad way. i hope someone alerted her to her wardrobe mishap.

zreader

Is this the Coney Island subway station? It looks as if she has a swimsuit on underneath that coverup.

cucarachita

Poor woman. But seriously, if she's unsuspecting, she needs to start suspecting.

This is NY. There's no pity for the unsuspecting. Only for the defenseless.

tackledspoon

Since when was it Gothamist's joint to embarass unsuspecting New Yorkers?

candleblue

Why are you posting this?

I've been a reader of Gothamist for years... back when there was just one Gothamist (i.e. no other city blogs) and you had the old old old super-gray colour scheme.

You guys have always been pretty classy, funny, quirky. But this... is just unnecessary. And mean. And tasteless. I'm disappointed.

I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for this, but I just had to say it.

patleeman

Forget the fashion police, call the decency swat team. My eyes! THEY BURN!

Steven

Fashion police needed. asap.

vaduzuvunt

For those of you who are claiming this was photoshopped:

I'm the person who caught this lovely moment, and I can guarantee that there is absolutely no touch ups whatsoever:

http://flickr.com/photos/vaduzuvunt/2842692895/

And if you need a second shot, tho blurry:

http://flickr.com/photos/vaduzuvunt/2842692035/in/photostream/

Additionally, I had to deal with trying to get around the woman while she was on her phone yelling at her boyfriend. She knew exactly what she was wearing and how it was hiked up.

MissMeowy

I was at Toys R Us in Union Square one time and an elderly woman in one of those hospital-type gowns slipped on the down escalator. Of course, the more she went down the more her dress went up. And yes, the escalator is right in the middle of the store and no, she wasn't wearing underwear. It was horrifying, in more ways than one. O_o

NannyState

She missed that last crucial element that really sets this look off: a dangling toilet tissue.

soopaman

Did the guy get her number? If so please post hook a brotha up!

ladyface

it's actually not photoshopped, quit bein such skeptics damn!

matty

oh ok. photoshop. I am somehow let down.

ChampionOfTheSun

It's always good to further embarass someone who probably has some type of mental problem.

PKinNYC

um.

geekyfemme

Why on earth would you post this picture?!

Jake Dobkin

it doesn't look 'shopped to me-- look at the shadow by the right arm. the jaggy left side looks like compression error.

lanciano

can someone really photoshop a butt like that? i'm not that adept at PS.

matty

Also I nominate this for best post of the year.

riotturtle

um, might just be the crappy compression but this looks photoshopped, especially in the left elbow region...

balutanski

photoshop.

matty

so she sat on the subway with that thing? Oh man. lol.

lanciano

wow. that is one scary happenin'. it almost looks like she innocently forgot her pants this morning.

i wonder where her travels took her next and if anyone said anything.

hopefully i wont find her standing in front of me while I'm sitting in a crowded train on my way home. Her reach for the railing would cause her shirt to inch up. EGADS!