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• The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual event organized each January by the performance art troupe Improv Everywhere, in which subway riders take off their pants to ride the subway. Underwear is not optional.

  Approximately 2,500 people participated in the No Pants Subway Ride on January 11, 2009, 1,500 of them in New York City. The New York group split into groups of 300 to ride the 1, E, R and 6 lines. In 21 other cities in eight other countries people participated in subways, light rail cars, and buses.MSNBC: Underground With Their Pants Down (January 15, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Started by Improv Everywhere leaders
  2. 2009 was 8th annualMSNBC: Underground With Their Pants Down (January 15, 2009)
  3. First year only 7 people participated
  4. ~1,500 New Yorkers participated in 2009MSNBC: Underground With Their Pants Down (January 15, 2009)
  5. 22 cities in 8 different countries participated in 2008
  6. Cities involved: Toronto (300 participants),Torontist: A Breezier Way to Ride the Rocket (January 12, 2009) Atlanta (34),Atlanta Journal Constitution: No pants needed for MARTA ride (January 10, 2009) Chicago, Washington DC, Warsaw (Poland), Seoul, Los Angeles,ref name=tr

• Suggestions for Participants

  1. Wear normal clothes for the weather
  2. Do not wear stockings (pantyhose for women is fine, but stockings and "long john" underwear are cheating!)
  3. Wear relatively modest underwear (no thongs!) and preferably an extra pair of underwear underneath
  4. Avoid evening coats and trench coatsWBZTV (Boston): 'No Pants Ride' Saturday On The Red Line (January 9, 2009)

• Related Pages on Mahalo

  Improv Everywhere | Yoko Ono | Art Ensemble of Chicago | Japanther | Jonathan Yegge | Tilda Swinton | Boredoms | Benjamin Verdonck | Causing A Scene

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