Dear Commons Community,

The photo of the week is the one above showing the kindness of NYPD officer, Larry DePrimo, giving a pair of boots and socks to a shoeless, homeless man.

“I had two pairs of wool winter socks and combat boots, and I was cold,” DePrimo, 25, when he encountered an unidentified, shoeless man on the sidewalk on Seventh Avenue near 44th Street.

DePrimo offered to get him socks and shoes.

“I never had a pair of shoes,” the man replied, according to DePrimo, who’s assigned to the Sixth Precinct and has been on the force nearly three years.

The officer walked to a Skechers store on 42nd Street and shelled out $75 for insulated winter boots and thermal socks. He returned to the man, knelt down and put the footwear on him.

“He smiled from ear to ear,” DePrimo said. “It was like you gave him a million dollars.”

The finest of New York’s finest.

Tony