Оn Saturday, January 10th, 2009 nearly 2,500 people took off their pants on subways in 22 cities around the world. In New York’s 8th Annual No Pants! Subway R ide we had over 1 ,200 participants, spread out o ver four subway lines. Enjoy the video first and then go b ehind the scenes with our mission report and photos.
If you’re unfamiliar with No Pants, you might want to first read our history of The No Pants Subway Ride. the 8 years we’ve been staging our No Pants! Subway Rides in New York, it has never snowed. T his year’s s torm made the event all the more fun and all
the more hilarious. Agent Fairey, recently m oved i nto an apartment building right next to Foley Square, so we were able t o get some great shots of the crowd from her roof.
“Everyone wave to the cameras!”

This mission works by using two separate trains for each line. For the first train the effect is that at every stop new people are standing up, removing their pants, and leaving the train. People on the second train then see pantless subway riders waiting on the platform and entering their car at each stop. One subway musician decided to pull his pants down and enjoy the fun A huge mob of pantless folks danced to his b eat in what turned out to be a highlight for many participants.! I said hello to him, and he r esponded, “ I missed you guys last year!” He put on another great show to the delight of many p antless dancers. J ody Avirgan
from WNYC r adio d id a fantastic interview with him after his performance; listen to it here. All of the t rain lines converged on
Union Square at the end of the mission, which means that within a short stretch of t ime 1,200 pantless people passed through the station’s exit turnstiles. One guy didn’t e ven wear a s hirt! Someone get him an Abercrombie gift card.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands / 25
participants / 26 degrees
Hamburg, Germany / 5 participants / 40
degrees
Lisbon, Portugal / 40 participants / 46
degrees
Los Angeles, CA / 200 participants / 75
degrees
San Francisco, CA / 50 participants / 62
degrees (the most scantily clad)
Sydney, Australia / 20 participants / 75
degrees
Toronto, Canada / 300 participants / 21
degrees ( most p articipants outside of
NY)
Vienna, Austria / 2 0 participants / 24
degrees
Warsaw, Poland / 7 p articipants / 3 2
degrees
Washington DC / 100 participants / 40
degrees