Naked Men Sightings Up In Upper West Side Parks: NY Post

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Upper West Siders are fed up with naked men journeying through the neighborhood, according to a new report from the New York Post.

The Post says that there have been five incidents of a disrobed man on the Upper West Side in recent weeks, three of which revolve around reports of a nude man outside Theodore Roosevelt Park at 200 Central Park West — near the American Museum of Natural History.

The Post also mentions reports of naked men getting spotted in Riverside Park.

The article centers on a retelling by City Council candidate Maria Danzilo of her own recent experience walking on the Upper West Side and seeing a naked man.

During the first week of June, Danzilo said she was walking on West 81st Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues when a man wearing only a bucket hat began heading toward her.

"As he walked by, heading toward the entrance of the Teddy Roosevelt Park on 81st Street, where many families congregate, I asked him to put his clothes on," Danzilo wrote within the Upper West Side Together Facebook group. "I then phoned 911 and was asked by the operator if he appeared dangerous or had a weapon. I said I didn't think he had a weapon and was transferred to EMT."

Danzilo was then able to help direct EMT to the naked man's location, where he volunteered to get into an ambulance on the corner of West 78th Street and Columbus Avenue, she said.

The Post's story mentions that Danzilo wrote her retelling of events in an "Upper West Side Facebook group."

That unspecified Facebook group is Upper West Side Together.

The group was formerly known as Upper West Siders for Safer Streets and was created at the end of July 2020 in opposition to the homeless residents who moved into The Lucerne hotel in the neighborhood without any warning from the city.

You can read the full story on the NY Post website.