Yesterday's low-key, low-turnout Election Day only provided a few hints toward the nation's mood going into the 2012 presidential election next year. Voters rejected many extreme right measures, while still denying the Democrats a chance to call the election a clear-cut victory. And among the things we learned: Staten Island voters like their incumbent DA, and upstate NY voters reject candidates with artsy nude photos. more ›

It's been awhile since we've had a good old fashioned nude pics political scandal—maybe it's because politicians are getting savvier about technology and sexting, maybe it's because they've learned from the mistakes of their colleagues, or maybe it's just because no one could possibly top Weinergate. But one upstate legislator is feeling the heat after his Republican opponents revealed the scandalous news that he has two nude photographs on his personal website—except the candidate proudly admits he posed nude for a photography project while getting a fine arts degree in college. more ›

Well, here's a new one: cops in Mishawaka, Indiana were called to a local park to investigate reports of a naked man sunbathing. When they arrived, they did indeed discover one Mr. Michael Donte Booth, entirely au natural and glistening with olive oil. Nearby, officers found the book Gay Power, a “Kroger bottle of extra virgin olive oil,” two cans of Miller beer, and Marlboro cigarettes. Booth's response? “I’m from New York. Can’t I do this here?” more ›

Next month photographer Erica Simone will unveil her nude self-portraits in an exhibit titled "Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen." The 20 photographs feature Simone all over the city—from the Bowery to the Bronx—sans clothing. They include her shoveling snow, panhandling, window shopping, eating a hot dog (of course), checking out some books at the library, getting bent over a car by a police officer, and so on. They are all too NSFW to post here, but if you have some privacy, we promise not to judge if you click through to the exhibit's gallery of images. more ›

Is New Jersey going nude? The state has a nude beach in Sandy Hook, but now 1010Wins reports that another one may soon be debuting in Asbury Park. Deputy Mayor and City Councilman John Loffredo said, "It's a person's prerogative if they want to go topless. I really don't see anything wrong with it." more ›

For those of you wondering what it feels like to ride among other naked and near-naked bicyclists in Sunday's NYC World Naked Bike Ride, Flickr user Dogseat offers this video of the experience—and we've added some other pictures above: more ›

If you saw a flock of naked or near-naked bicyclists, it wasn't your eyes, it was simply the Second Annual New York City World Naked Bike Ride. According to its website: "Naked on a bike is about as free as you can be! This ride is majorly fun! This year's WNBR is supported by a generous contribution of outrage from British Petroleum. BP is unleashing incalculable devastation upon the environment..." more ›

Marina Ambramovic's "The Artist Is Present" is still going on at MoMA, and while her silent staring contests have been the center of attention lately, the nude models positioned at the entryway are speaking out about their silent shifts. more ›

The No Pants Subway Ride is for pussies (no pun intended)... the real Improv Everywhere enthusiasts are all about the No Underwear Subway Ride. Head exhibitionist Charlie Todd says for their latest mission "over 1,000 people rode the subway without underwear or pants... we decided it was time to up the ante. Riders spread out over four different subway lines to surprise and delight everyday New Yorkers riding the train." more ›

Jersey Shore's Snooki was given another makeunder recently, but let's face facts: pantsuits will not get you ca$h money. But taking off your clothes might! Radar reports that she may be following in cast mate J-WOWW's footsteps as rumors swirl that she's shopping around nude photos and video of herself. Snookers allegedly took the shots herself in her bedroom—and the site reports that at least one photo is "too raunchy to describe." Snickers! The reality starlet denied it all on Twitter, calling Radar "weirdos"—but time, and the inevitable leaked photos prior to Season 2 airing, will tell. more ›

Demonstrators have promised to ride bikes down Bedford Avenue naked this evening to protest the recent removal of a bicycle lane amidst mounting pressure from South Williamsburg's Hasidic community. But will the so-called "Freedom Ride" actually happen? more ›

An unidentified male cop in the notorious Brooklyn South Narcotics unit allegedly took personal photos of a female drug suspect during multiple, unauthorized strip searches. Claudia Bova, 23, was arrested in a Coney Island drug sweep in June 2007, and taken to a building in downtown Brooklyn for booking. The officer allegedly told Bova he would have to perform a body search because there were no female officers available, in violation of an NYPD policy prohibiting cross-gender searches. Bova claims he led her to the bathroom and ordered her to lift up her shirt, "shake out her bra" and pull down her pants, according to court papers obtained by the Daily News. But it didn't end there! more ›

Across the pond Brooke Shields is causing a commotion at the hoity-toity Tate Modern. The nude photograph of the actress at age 10 was to be part of a new salacious exhibit, which of course was met by the sighs of both children's advocates and religious groups, according to the Daily News. One outraged critic told them, "Putting a sign on the door like that means every pedophile in the land will head straight to that room." The Man agreed, and it's being reported that officers from the obscene publications unit of the Metropolitan police have taken it down. The photograph hung in the Guggenheim just two years ago, and features a "nude ten-year-old Brooke Shields, heavily made-up, standing in a bath." It actually is rather disturbing. more ›

So, this guy is running around town with nothing but a well-placed fanny pack. Little is known about the mysterious ("world's fastest") nudist, but FreeWilliamsburg points out that he is making a documentary (that will hopefully never hit the big screen). He also updates daily on his Twitter and website the Daily Nude, so you can appropriately avoid or stalk him. more ›

Zach Hyman's latest nude subject is stealing the headlines from him. Today the NY Post talks to the 26-year-old Kathleen Neill, who was charged with public lewdness when she stripped down in the Metropolitan Museum's Hall of Arms and Armor. She wants the prudes in this town to lighten up, and told the paper, "I want people to have the freedom to express themselves. I want the city to drop the charges. I would love to be able to go to museums and see stuff like this happen on any scale." Since it's already legal for women to walk around topless in New York, maybe next year's topless march should focus on the full monty. more ›

Two female assistants to a hedge fund financier are suing for sexual harassment because he made one of them develop topless photos of his wife and, when she delivered the racy pics, allegedly gave her "a perverted smirk" and asked, "You liked them, didn't you?" Danielle Pecile, 26, and Cristina Culicea, 27, filed a joint lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—Culicea says she was harassed when Titan Capital CEO Russell Abrams tasked her to develop a photo of him and his newlywed Sandra in a bathtub. more ›

The Bronx man who was arrested Tuesday after going full monty during a flight bound from Charlotte to L.A. wasn't doing it to freak out the squares; he happens to be bipolar. Authorities have identified the U.S. Airways passenger as Keith Wright, a Navy veteran, and his wife Debra tells the Daily News that Keith left their Bronx home Tuesday without telling her, after spending days not eating or sleeping: "When I came home from work he wasn't around. Next thing I know I get a call from a FBI officer. That is when I knew." more ›

There'll be an opening reception tomorrow night (at 7:55 p.m.) for photographer Miru Kim's Naked City Spleen show at Gestarc Gallery in Red Hook. The work is part of Kim's ongoing series of photographs that depict her nakedly exploring abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, and even the now-demolished sugar refinery in Red Hook. Now all she needs is a shot of herself in the IKEA cafeteria. more ›

For the captain of industry who has everything, what better gift than a nude portrait made from Financial Times articles about them? For $30,000 and up, artist Natasha Archdale (pictured) will turn the business rag into the likeness of your loved one, just like she did for the wife of billionaire financier Stephen Schwarzman. The nude portrait was a gift from Iceland's first lady, who tells Bloomberg News she has “yet to meet someone who does not want a naked picture of their loved ones with text about themselves.” It now hangs in Schwarzman's Park Avenue home “between a Rembrandt and a Picasso,” but who knows – maybe Schawarzman can get it installed at the New York Public Library, where his name will soon be emblazoned in five places. more ›

Cops are on the lookout for a pants-less NJ man accused of breaking into an Edison, NJ woman's home, disrobing, and molesting its sleeping occupant. The police are now recommending that people not leave windows or doors unlocked because the nude intruder weirdo remains on the loose. Thursday morning, a 39-year-old woman awoke to find a nude man in bed with her and stroking her thigh around 3 a.m. He was an uninvited guest and the woman screamed, at which point the intruder fled without his clothes. more ›

Spencer Tunick and a crowd of volunteer naked people brazenly defied the dress code at the Four Seasons restaurant last Saturday for Tunick’s 75th installation documenting the human form in unexpected places. Other New York locations where Tunick's models have gone au naturale include Grand Central Station and Times Square. more ›

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos (2,571 in all) of Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel-Air that are collectively known as “The Last Sitting.” The 36-year-old Monroe was in the darkest period of her life, having weathered two recent divorces, gallbladder surgery and sickness during production of the romantic comedy Something’s Got to Give, from which she was fired and rehired. Six weeks after the Stern photo shoot, Monroe died from a barbiturate overdose in her L.A. home. more ›

The Equinox fitness club chain will soon be bringing a controversial ad campaign to New York City that features nuns sketching a male nude model. The ads are currently on display only in Boston, but will soon be shown in other cities, including NYC. The Boston Archdiocese feels that the ads are a slam against the Church and the Catholic faith. Keira McCaffrey of New York's Catholic League expressed less outrage than disdain. "It's gratuitous. It's of course … it's a slap at nuns, but you know what? It's trite. It's not even clever. This is an old cliché ... let's make fun of nuns." Bill Donahue, the head of the Catholic League, weighed in, calling the ad "patently stupid" and "sophomoric." C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League wasn't as dismissive, calling the ad "unfair and depraved." more ›

Remember that cruel(la) couple from Long Island that enslaved two Indonesian women who worked in their mansion? After their million dollar bail plan was announced back in June we hadn't heard much about these two. Today, however, silence was broken after Varsha Mahender Sabhnani and her hubby Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani's trial has ended...and the latest is not good news for them! more ›

Last year WNBC got up close and personal with the Civic Fame statue atop the Municipal Building, and this week The NY Times looks at the woman who modeled for that statue, and many others -- Audrey Munson, "a long-forgotten New York celebrity whose face and figure continue to grace the contours of statues all around Manhattan."It was Ms. Munson’s eyes that stared stoically from the marble forms of the Firemen’s Memorial on Riverside Drive,... more ›

November marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Tawana Brawley affair--an incident that inflamed racial relations in New York and across the country after a teenage girl alleged that she had been sexually assaulted and abused by police. The ensuing media circus thrust Rev. Al Sharpton into the limelight and established his bona fides as a community spokesman. It also tarnished the reputations of the people she accused of raping her and, later... more ›

Just weeks after the New York Post milked a week's worth of coverage out of a 26-year-old's nude romp in the middle of the afternoon through Times Square, the paper heads back to the bare-naked well with yet another mentally disturbed male who wanted to lap the Square sans clothing. 44-year-old Antonia Alicata caught a Metro North train down to the city Thursday and then rode the subway to Times Square. Somewhere along the way, he shed his clothes and was caught on West 42nd St. by cops, as Alicata traversed the crossroads of the world without any clothes on. more ›

Up above you have Park Slope #17 and Carroll Gardens #13, respectively. Jennifer Loeber is bringing nude photography close to home with her series that show different Brooklynites in the flesh, in their apartments. They could even be your neighbors! And her inspiration? It came from a flasher on the subway, of course: "The idea to shoot nude portraits came about as I rode the NYC subway and pretended not to notice, across the aisle, a man fumbling to remove his clothes and expose himself to me. He looked distinctly uncomfortable yet wholly determined in his goal. His great drive to reveal himself to the commuting populace was made more palpable by the fact that he hadn't quite worked out the logistics." An unlikely muse, indeed. We recently asked Loeber some more questions about her ongoing project... more ›