Spring is Here – Time for Nude Sunbathing in Brooklyn Bridge Park

long live banana hammock dude
we can’t all look like “the situation” or naked cowboy
the fact that he doesn’t get tan or sunburnt is curious

banana man was in the new park in full bloom again today. the park rangers walked by several times and did nothing so like stated above, bad taste and pasty skin is not a crime…but he’s completely creepy and was snapping pics but trying to be quite discreet about it. something is night right with banana hammock man

Tessdee, you say he was “trying to be quite discreet” about “snapping pics”? Is that not allowed there? Or because it’s impolite to take pictures of people without their permission?

oh and I also take issue with having to see his package and white ass with yellow floss in it while my kids are around.

tessdee, it’s impossible to get any concrete idea of what you mean by “the way in which he was doing this.”

@hoppy, I am not accusing anyone of anything. Making leaps that I think this guy is a pornographer is unfair. Those are your words. What I simply stated was, that in my opinion, it felt odd to me he was essentially hiding his camera with his body and taking shots. That he was appearing – again in my opinion – to try and be very discreet in taking pictures of groups around him. Most people I observe do not take photographs in that manner. That is all I am saying. Clearly this man will spend a lot of time in the park this season so we’ll see how it goes….

Isn’t it illegal to go nude at NYC beaches? It should be the same in parks. He could maybe just wear a thong at least, since there are so many young kids in the area.

Just because I don’t like or want kids personally doesn’t mean I wish them the trauma have to face that scariness! Geesh

HeightsDiva: You write: “He could maybe just wear a thong at least…” What? He *was* wearing a thong. Didn’t get past the headline?

As a european it is a challenge for me to understand what the big deal is.

But the easiest way for me to understand the American concern for nudity is to view it in the context of other cultures. In Saudi Arabia women wear burqas. In their society, a women walking around exposing her face, arms, and legs is considered indecent. From an American perspective a woman without a burqa is not indecent. In the US a man wearing a thong is considered indecent, in most European countries, it is not indecent. So in a general scale on personal bodily freedoms America falls roughly in the middle: freer than Saudi Arabia, but less free than Europe.

If you’re going to discuss legal terms such as lewd or offensive, at least know the applicable laws. Here they are. You can get the same statutes at Findlaw.com or the NYS Legislature public information website, but this gives a distinct hyperlink to the relevant statutes: http://naturistaction.org/StatesFrames/State_Laws_Frames/New_York_Laws/body_new_york_laws.html

This allows women to walk around topless because men are allowed to do so:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I92_0160.htm

Bartmann: c’mon. I know some Americans can be prudish, but if we’re going to construct a scale, with Saudi Arabia at 0 and Europe at 100, America is probably around a 95. It’s removing that last fig leaf of clothing that seems to tip the balance here — but everything just up to is largely smiled upon.

Come on folks, is it really such a fashion crime. I think it’s fair to say some of the Clark Street/St. George dorm kids would be more guilty. I say, “Banana Hammock Man for President!”

This is the guy the park rangers at EFFSP called “thong man”, and who, no matter how long he sunbathed, was always pasty white. I guess he takes a bath every morning in an SPF 45 sun block.

Incidentally, because EFFSP was a *state* rather than a city park, topless sunbathing by women was legal. Not that I ever saw anyone doing it.

Why is it always the people that you don’t want to see naked that do this? At least he’s not morbidly obese like people at nudist colonies.