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No Pants Subway Ride 2017: See photos

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  • No Pants Subway Ride participants stand on the Queensboro Plaza 7 train platform on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Liz Dewey, left, of New York, spends a second date with Bill Magner of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., during the No Pants Subway Ride on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants exit a 7 train at Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants ride a 7 train on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Next stop, Court Square -- pants optional. No Pants Subway Ride participants on the 7 train on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway participants head for an N train at Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, Queens, on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants board a 7 train in Queens on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Participants wait for a Queens-bound 7 train in Manhattan as they take part in the annual No Pants Subway Ride on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants wait for an N train at Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, Queens, on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants wait for a Queens-bound 7 train on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Participants in the annual No Pants Subway Ride wait for a 7 train at Queensboro Plaza on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Karen Buryiak of New York lights up the platform with her shoes at Queensboro Plaza as she takes part in the annual No Pants Subway Ride on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants walk on the Fifth Avenue platform after exiting a 7 train as they take part in the annual No Pants Subway Ride in Manhattan on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • A No Pants Subway Ride participant stands on a 7 train platform in New York on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • No Pants Subway Ride participants wait for the train at Queensboro Plaza on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Vincent Barone
  • A No Pants Subway Ride straphanger stands on the platform at the Queensboro Plaza station on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Vincent Barone
  • No Pants participants wait for a train at Queensboro Plaza station on Jan. 8, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Vincent Barone

Temperatures in the single digits did not stop New Yorkers from joining the No Pants Subway Ride, an annual prank that saw plenty of straphangers shedding bottom layers.

Participants — more than 1,000 locals were expected, organizers said — met up at seven locations in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, then rode together, sans pants. The global event, which originated in NYC in 2001, hit 32 cities this year.

Scroll down to see photos from this year’s local version of the No Pants Subway Ride.

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