SOLE COLLECTOR: Sneakers

words - Nick

When leaving Connecticut and entering New York — everything seemingly gets better.

I had one of the best shrimp plates of my life at 11am on the drive over to Sole Supreme’s house. Breading, tartar sauce and fries were amazing, and the shrimp was as fresh as it gets. I’ll even overlook the multitude of black speckles on the bottom of my cup of off-clear water. That good.

And it doesn’t get much better than NYC. (Once you get there after hours of traffic.) We made a post Tuesday night at 10pm announcing that we’d like everyone to meet at Flushing Meadows Park at 3pm the next day. And despite such short notice, we still had over twenty people show up and hang out for nearly four hours. It was only three hours for us, considering we showed up at 4:30 (sorry!) but that’s how things run in the big leagues sometime.

Everyone on hand was amazingly nice and friendly, and there were some great kicks on hand. Gotta give it up to John in the black patent Flight 89’s — man I love that shoe! Tons of other great Dunks, Forces, Clydes, Griffeys and Jordans were broken out too.

Tristan, aka iamafr3ees0le, is an absolute clown. Aside from a few more suspect poses, he had no problem putting on a show for the camera and acting a fool. Glad you, Kyle and Amos made the two hour drive from Jersey!

And this is how Steve takes pictures. He gets into it.

Also gotta give some shine to Glenn (in the red tee). This kid is all of like twelve years-old but has the coolest NY f-you swagger about him. And then there’s Chris in the Supreme Kermit tee next to him. We had a survey of sorts for everyone to complain about, and for the Top5 Websites question he put ‘BANG BROS.’ No shame this guy. No shame.

And lastly everyone tried to act their toughest. (Shout out to Amos, seated fourth from the left in Powder X’s. “My mom would be mad at me if I did that.”)

But of course the real Tough Guy was this awesome cop. He’s having a bad day, week life.

Here’s a play-by-play.

* Cop rides bike around the park all day long.

* Group of ten people talking shoes are standing still.

* Cop rides bike into Sole Supreme.

“Are you serious? Are you a (expletive) moron? Give me your ID!” - Cop

Sole Supreme’s infraction against mankind?

“Blocking Pedestrian Traffic”

The cop was riding around the circle that borders the Flushing Globe and is maybe 30 yards wide, and coincidentally he happened to drive right through a group of people (with 20 yards on the right to spare) only to single out Sole Supreme. Sucks P.