Let’s face it, The Notebook was enough to carve out a little place in the Swoontastic Hall of Fame for Ryan Gosling, but here he goes, being even more swoony.

Gosling was just hanging out, walking around the streets of New York City recently, wearing a suit and rocking the umbrella-as-walking-stick look when a fight broke out in the middle of St. Mark’s Place. This leading man didn’t shy away, he just stood with the brawlers and tried to convince them that they should let bygones be bygones.

You can watch the whole thing unfold here, or on YouTube: