KEY POINTS

  • Unidentified man strips in NY hotel lobby
  • Police says man is emotionally disturbed
  • Offender was sent to a hospital

A deranged man nearly stripped naked in a Manhattan Hotel lobby on Tuesday.

Police responded to calls from the Econo Lodge on West 47th Street near 8th Avenue around 7:30 A.M. where a man was found wearing only his underwear and a pair of Apple Airpod earphones in the hotel’s main lobby, the New York Post reported.

The unidentified offender was said to be emotionally disturbed, said the police, and was transported to the St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital while on a stretcher.

After the incident, the hotel and the visitors went back to their own businesses.

The luxury Marco Polo is one of the few hotels to have remained open as the crisis erupted
The luxury Marco Polo is one of the few hotels to have remained open as the crisis erupted AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL
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