He-Man Breaks His Silence With The Observer

We've been intrigued with He-Man, the man who walks around in muscle shirts (or shirtless) in the Union Square/Flatiron /Madison Square Park neighborhoods, since 2007 and, thanks to an Observer story, now his secrets are revealed. Well, secrets like his name (Mike Nelson), his stats ("6-foot-4, with a 50-inch chest, a 34-inch waist and 19-and-a-half-inch biceps attached to shoulders the size of bowling balls"), and dreams (bodybuilding: "He’s aiming to be ready for competition by the end of summer, after he loses 25 pounds of fat, and then gains 40 in muscle"). Nelson also has a rubber left eye (from an incident in a NJ prison; he received a $270,000 settlement), has danced at bachelorette parties, battled drug addiction and the Asser Levy gym is sort of like his Castle Grayskull. And he does know about the FindHeman.com website—apparently some cops told him. But read the article for the amazing life of the Most Powerful Man in the Universe (or at least a 10-block area).

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By Jen Chung in News on May 20, 2009 5:32 PM

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pissflaps

pee man

JMH

I'm a little disappointed; when I saw the headline I thought the article was going to be about Dolph Lundgren.

Mr. Vos

One word: junkie. I see this guy around and he is usually on the prowl for dope. He often hangs out with other junkies around the old hotel on 23rd Street (next to the PO).

OTC

So he's just a jacked up ex-con?

chinolam

I saw this guy about a year ago around 5th Ave and I really couldn't really tell, but it looked like he was making out with a physically challenged old lady in a wheelchair. I shouldn't judge. Maybe it was his girlfriend.

tingo

Good for him. The guy should be allowed to look and do whatever the fuck he wants if he's not infringing on anyone else's spaces. And whoever ever started that site seems to be an obsessed sociopath with some serious issues.

Put your pitchforks away.

jaycjay

Really don't get it. This guy's interesting ("intriguing" and "amazing") just because he's big?

I mean it, that's a serious question.

dajamg

"Pretty soon he was taking up to 16 hits a day. One day the cops were after him so he gobbled all of the 48 tabs in his pocket. It took him a year to recover, he said. Lost his speech. Had trouble walking. It was during this time that he reasoned he should get into weight training and nutrition."

HOLY CRAP!