Multiple locations
Sunday, January 10, free, 3:00
www.improveverywhere.com
Improv Everywhere, a group that enjoys creating chaos in public places, will be holding its ninth annual No Pants! Subway Ride on January 10, as thousands of straphangers remove their slacks, dungarees, corduroys, and leggings — and reveal whether they wear boxers, briefs, or panties (no thongs or possibly offensive undergarments allowed!). Despite the premise, this is a serious flash-mob event — there are very specific rules, including no laughing and no picture taking (there will be plenty of “official” photographers and videographers assigned to capture the antics on film), and each individual has to pretend they don’t know the others in their car as they depant themselves. If you’d like to participate, there are five meeting points: Hoyt Playground in Queens, Prospect Park and Bushwick Park in Brooklyn, the Great Hill in Central Park and Foley Square in Manhattan, and Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. The popularity of this event is, well, taking off, as subway riders will be taking it off in nearly fifty cities around the world, from Brisbane and Buenos Aires to Boston and Buffalo, from San Diego and San Francisco to Stockholm and Sidney. Bottoms up!