"I Just Had to Help Him" — The NYPD Officer Who Knelt on a Freezing Sidewalk to Give a Barefoot Stranger Boots: The Story of Larry DePrimo
On a freezing November night in 2012, a young NYPD officer spent $75 of his own money to buy boots for a barefoot homeless man in Times Square. A tourist's photo of that moment went viral and moved millions around the world.
Jun 16, 2026