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A homeless man pleaded guilty to public lewdness after police say he exposed himself to a woman on the Staten Island Ferry Wednesday night.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A homeless man exposed himself to a female Staten Island Ferry rider Wednesday night, then complained to police about double standards between men and women, according to authorities.

"These women wear skirts with no panties. I got arrested for masturbating in a stall," said Solomon Marion, 37, who had been sentenced to 20 days in jail after getting busted for public lewdness off-Island this past May.

Marion's Ferry escapade wasn't limited to a stall, though, as police tell it.

Rather, he approached a 29-year-old woman sitting on the saloon deck of the Samuel I. Newhouse ferryboat at 9:20 p.m., police said.

His pants were down, and when the woman looked up, she saw him holding his jacket above his waist, his genitals exposed, court papers allege.

Marion, who listed his address as the Project Hospitality Drop-In Center at 25 Central Ave. in St. George, has 13 prior arrests, according to a law enforcement source, including the aforementioned May incident. Many of those arrests involve fare-beating, trespassing and marijuana charges, the source said, and in several cases, he's pleaded guilty in exchange for a few days in jail.

Marion pleaded guilty at his arraignment in Stapleton Criminal Court to a single count of public lewdness, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, according to information from District Attorney Daniel Donovan's Office.