Spring has sprung — and though the thermometer might say otherwise, some New Yorkers can’t wait.
Bob McColloughAnnie Wermiel
On Thursday, as April creeps closer, March winds winds still blew. The mercury briefly hit 52 before sinking down into the 40s, and a few hardy souls dressed for a day they didn’t have.
“I dress for whatever I want that day to be like,” says Upper East Sider Fay Vaynshanker, 18, rocking a skirt and crop top on her way to DJ class at the New School. “In Fay world, it’s always spring.” Just in case, she keeps a pair of Adidas pants handy to slip on at night. “I was born in Latvia,” she explains. “It’s really cold there, so you get used to it.”
Fifty degrees and sunny is all it takes to get Sanjana Vegiraju out of her winter black and into a white sundress. “I don’t mind going without a jacket and wearing what I want to,” says the 24-year-old Parsons student, who lives in Union Square. “Once you get used to the New York weather, it’s very nice [today].”
Williamsburg resident Sam Heinrich was bold enough to step out in flip-flops and shorts. “I fairly routinely get looks or comments in public,” he says. “I’d rather be comfortable most of the time than be uncomfortably hot for 30 minutes every time I go into a heated building!”
Some people hedge their bets. Murray Hill’s Bob McCullough was expecting a 60-degree day when he put cargo shorts on that morning. “I’m a little cold,” admits the 81-year-old, whose sole concession to the 40-something day was a puffer jacket.’
LaTrell Haines dances in Times Square in a tee as jacket-clad folks look on.Brian Zak
“[My] hands get cold, so I put them in my pockets,” he says. “One day, when it was like 28 degrees or something, a woman came by and said, ‘Sir, you forgot your pants!’”
From what we can see, he’s not the only underdressed guy out there.
