Theories on New York City Shoefiti
Dainty Dynamite takes a look at why shoes hang from powerlines in New York City. She’s also noticed an outbreak of cans of Red Bull tied together and hung from powerlines:
Running down what’s behind hanging sneakers
Urban lore has it the hanging high-tops mean “Drugs sold here.” Others say they appear where a child has died or when someone’s virginity has been lost.
But Detective Jaime Hernandez, Ninth Precinct community affairs officer, said, as far as he knows, those are myths.
“That’s a tradition,” he said of chucking old sneakers onto lampposts. “When I lived in Brooklyn, we used to do that. It didn’t mean anything. I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant — so I would know.”
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