In 2011, the No Pants Subway Ride began at the Alewife Red Line stop in Cambridge.
Pictured: Pantsless T riders wait for the train at Park Street in 2011.
TOP PANTSLESS MOMENTS OF THE NO PANTS SUBWAY RIDE
In cities across America, commuters will shed their pants and bear their underwear for the annual No Pants Subway Ride.
The event was the brainchild of New York City’s Improv Everywhere in 2002.
The sixth annual Boston ride, hosted by the social arts and events group BostonSOS, will take place on January 13.
Check out some of the best pantsless moments of Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride.
Before boarding the train, T. Paul McCarthy posed minus his pants for passersby at the Park Street station in 2011.
In 2011, the No Pants Subway Ride began at the Alewife Red Line stop in Cambridge.
Pictured: Pantsless T riders wait for the train at Park Street in 2011.
Marques Hollie, center, shed both his shirt and pants during this No Pants Subway Ride in 2011.
Commuters participated in all the regular T behaviors, like reading on the train, while showing pantsless solidarity in 2011.
Hailey Fuqua strutted down a Red Line train’s runway in 2011, much to the surprise of her fellow passengers.
About 350 people joined the fifth annual No Pants Subway Ride in 2012. Participants gathered in front of the South Station Red Line stop before the event.
There were photo opportunities to be had, as No Pants Subway Ride participants boarded trains across the city in 2012.
Matthew Winijer, of Medford, read a copy of “Dating for Dummies” at Downtown Crossing while waiting for an Orange Line train during the No Pants Subway Ride in 2012.
“Awful advice. The worst I’ve ever read,” he said.
Jack Politis, of Cambridge, read a copy of John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” on his iPhone while participating in the No Pants Subway Ride in 2012.
Pantless riders could be seen through open T doors on the day of the No Pants Subway Ride.
Bare legs didn’t stop these women from sitting down on the train during the 2012 ride.
A pantsless rider closed her eyes as a Red Line train approached the Charles Street/MGH stop in 2012.
Boston University student Adam Even Engel, of Framingham, was too busy reading to notice a pantsless Clark Kent on the platform in 2012.
It was Engel’s third year participating in the No Pants Subway Ride.
Commuters read or chatted without regard to their chilly, bare legs during the No Pants Subway Ride.
White socks, black shoes, no pants.
The pantsless riders left T stations and took to the streets near Government Center on the day of the No Pants Subway Ride in 2012.
