{"id":3809,"date":"2008-09-19T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2008-09-19T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:13:52","slug":"you_know_what_helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/you_know_what_helps.html","title":{"rendered":"You Know What Helps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/18\/bronx\/doc48d26a1f303ea592839916.txt\">Putting your utility lines underground<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Community Board 11 district manager John Fratta explained the call for action saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been getting complaints about the shoes on the telephone wires.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>More than a street-beautification effort, Fratta said area residents are deeply concerned with the connotations, false as they may be, the hanging footwear represents.<\/p>\n<p>While no one really knows the reason behind the telephone line-sneaker trick, numerous theories have come to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Most widely believed to be the sign of gang activity or site of street drug sales, folklore also denotes the sneaker sling as a celebration for men who lost their virginity.<\/p>\n<p>Though more than a dozen explanations continue to claim the reasoning behind the obscure act, all continue to remain inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing where else to turn, he said he looked to Councilman Jimmy Vacca for some needed assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Though eager to get involved, Nivardo Lopez, constituent liaison in Vacca\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, said their immediate response for involvement quickly turned into a drawn out investigation.<\/p>\n<p>With Cable Vision, Verizon and FDNY wires, among others, creating a web of unmarked territory over the neighborhood, Lopez said determining which company owned the wire that coordinated with the hanging footwear was an increasingly difficult task.<\/p>\n<p>Then, to his great luck and appreciation, Cable Vision stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They took care of theirs right away,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lopez explained about their cooperative efforts to remove the sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez further explained the company took initiative to compile a master list that clearly identified which line was which company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, they soared.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten a good response from the different utilities about removing the sneakers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lopez commented, pleased with results of the unique initiative.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/sneakers\/index.htm\">Hanging Sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting your utility lines underground: Community Board 11 district manager John Fratta explained the call for action saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been getting complaints about the shoes on the telephone wires.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d More than a street-beautification effort, Fratta said area residents are deeply concerned with the connotations, false as they may be, the hanging footwear represents. While no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}