Skinny Dipping in New York

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Brandon Venable, 20, of the Bronx, said he had not intended to swim at all, let alone naked. But after three Bacardi and Tropicanas on the beach, he said, “the mood was right.”

After the Shirtless trend in NYC - comes now a even more daring thrill: Skinny Dipping in The Hudson river. Naked swimmers act quickly under cover of darkness or in permissive pockets of the city: at the gay-friendly patch of Riis beach in the Rockaways or at a marina on City Island. A small number of tickets are given out each year, and a few nude swimmers do end up being arrested - but the police isn't taking the whole thing very serious - guess they have other priorities...