Larry DePrimo, NYPD Cop, Buys Homeless Man Boots (PHOTO) [1]

As seen on Huffington Post Newsday  |  By Anthony M DeStefano

Posted: 11/29/2012 7:44 am EST Updated: 11/29/2012 1:31 pm EST

As of late Wednesday, the photo had been shared 47,716 times, boosting subscribers to the department's 5-month-old page by 7,000, to 95,000, officials said.

You have to like what NYPD Officer Larry DePrimo did for a barefoot man in Manhattan one frigid night this month. In fact, more than 260,000 Facebook users have "liked" DePrimo's actions, a number that's growing every day.

After a tourist from Arizona snapped a photo of DePrimo, of Holbrook, giving the man socks and boots to ward off the cold, the image became an instant hit on the NYPD's Facebook page.

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