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Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:58 pm
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SNEAKER RIOT
By RACHEL SKLAR and LEONARD GREENE
Talk about sneaker wars.
Customers on the Lower East Side were duking it out in the street yesterday over a limited-edition Nike Pigeon (NYC) Dunk skateboarding shoe.
Not even Big 'Twoine — the 300-pound bouncer hired to keep order — was able to control the dozens of "sneakerheads" who rushed the door at The Reed Space store at 10:30 a.m. yesterday.
When tempers flared, cops were called to restore order.
It was all in the name of target marketing and the desire to be the first.
"It was kind of crazy," said Nico Reyes, a store manager.
Reyes said a fight broke out after a bunch of people tried to skip the line that snaked outside the Orchard Street store.
Dozens of people had camped out for two or three days in freezing temperatures and a snowstorm in hopes of snaring one of what were only 150 pairs manufactured.
Cops said no arrests were made in the scuffle, although a man was cuffed, and cops found a knife and a baseball bat at the scene.
Although 70 people were waiting, only 20 people walked away with the prize, a pair of the rare Dunk skateboarding shoes with an exclusive New York twist — a pigeon on the heel.
Although Nike's suggested retail price is $69, The Reed Space sold its small supply for $300 a pair. Sneakerheads are selling them for as much as $1,000 on eBay.
Staple Design, which owns and operates The Reed Space, was tapped over a year ago by Nike to design the shoe, and chose a pigeon to represent New York.
"It's innate to New Yorkers," said Jeffrey Ng, Staple Design's founder and creative director. "No other bird in the world will let you walk that close to it. It's tough, and it's brave."
Gabriel Paulino, 22, of Jamaica, Queens, waited for two days, driving home only once to change and eat.
But in the melee for tickets, he came away empty-handed.
At least one sneakerhead walked away with a unique souvenir, Ng said, when a real pigeon left its mark on his shoe.
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Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:28 pm
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| haha, this shit gettin silly...rock on sneakerheadz! |
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Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:59 pm
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What a shame..
Things like that often happen in H-to-da-K when exclusive kicks are out.. 
Just get on with it and get a life..  |
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Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:12 pm
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| omg...tats crazy shit |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:06 am
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| people always go nuts when anything is exclusive or limited. |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:30 am
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| lol i never knew i had the same last name as the Stpl dude xD |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:32 am
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| The coverage is interesting. An SB on the front page of the Post is no joke. But articles like this only add fuel to the flames... We'll see what happens next time. |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:27 am
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lol good old usa for ya lol
wasnt the release of the pharells in nyc just like that??? lol
knives and bats?....thats going pretty far for kicks...may as well bring a gun and shoot every1....ppl these days |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:28 pm
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:25 pm
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5D
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:42 pm
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| Jeeez... sneaker collecting will just keep on getting crazier and crazier. |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:05 pm
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:07 pm
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Suggested price GBP33....USD69..
Was that some kind of SICKKKK joke? |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:18 pm
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I read somewhere that all SBs will no longer be distributed in NYC because of this incident....
....think its true?? Sounds a bit odd to me. May as well not release any limited edition nike in nyc then lol.... |
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Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:16 pm
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| R.A.Y.O.K wrote: |
I read somewhere that all SBs will no longer be distributed in NYC because of this incident....
....think its true?? Sounds a bit odd to me. May as well not release any limited edition nike in nyc then lol.... |
You read wrong, if anything this would fuel more distribution |
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