New York Post

Coitus ‘interrupt us’ summonses off in city parks

- Aaron Short

Cops appear to be looking the other way at hankypanky in public parks.

Police doled out only 45 summonses to kinky couples having sex in the city’s green spaces so far this year — a 56 percent drop from the same period last year when cops ticketed 103 daring deviants, NYPD records show.

And copblocks in Central Park dwindled to just four in the first six months of the year, after 30 last year and 21 the year before.

Asked to explain the plummet in citations, an NYPD spokesman would only say that “some conditions can be corrected without issuing a summons.”

Some carnal capers do get the attention of authoritie­s. One parks enforcemen­t officer told The Post she holds her handcuffs and keys tightly so they don’t jangle as she stealthily approaches lovers of the great outdoors. She caught one couple having oral sex in a darkened thicket in Central Park, and they quickly buckled up un der the glare of her flashlight.

“The guy was very honest and said, ‘We made a stupid mistake’ and ‘We didn’t think we were going to get caught,’” she recalled. She gave them a ticket anyway.

Cops broke up seven horny hookups in Manhattan’s 34th Precinct, which includes Inwood Hills Park, Fort Tryon Park and northern sections of rocky Highbridge Park, through June.

Fort Tryon Park’s unkempt pathways just steps from the A train have long been a gaycruisin­g favorite, parks advocates say.

“People hang out there and wait for people to come by,” said New York City Park Advocates director Geoffrey Croft.

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