New Yorker gives shirt off his back to homeless man
Footage has captured the heart-warming moment a 23-year-old man gives the shirt off his back to a shivering homeless man on a cold New York Night.
Joey Resto was returning to his home in Brooklyn after work last Friday when he shared a train with a homeless man.
He told ABC News he noticed that the shirtless man looked “cold, hungry…like he had just got beat up” and he just did what he “thought was right”.
The video, which was filmed on another train user’s phone, shows Resto get up from his seat, walk towards the man and offer him his shirt.
He then helps him put it on, patiently rolling it up and placing it over the man’s arms and then head.
Resto then returns to his seat and brings back a black hat, also placing it on the “weak and frail” man.
Resto was unaware he was being filmed. The video was posted to Facebook and has now viewed more than 13 million times.
"It just came from the heart," he said.
"I don’t know how anyone could have walked past him and had extra clothing and not given it to him."
Random acts of kindness towards homeless people surface at times and are uplifting to many who view them - but there are also many examples caught on camera of the cruelty some inflict on the homeless.
