New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s shoes – Queens, NY – Aug 30, 2010 – Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images
Reporting Rich Lamb
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirms he has only two pairs of work shoes for the past ten years.
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WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb reports that His Honor says both pairs are black loafers. One pair is penny loafers. The other is loafers with a tassel.
Asked for more about his non-triple-E’s, his honor quipped, “I think, for security reasons, I really cannot talk about my shoes as to whether or not I have backup.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his girlfriend Diana Taylor attend the opening night ceremony at the US Open - Queens, NY - Aug 30, 2010 - Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images
The mayor has his loafers resoled and re-heeled and declared it’s fair to say he’s not the shoe industry’s best customer.
9 Comments
What he saves on shoes he spends on Cuban cigars.
December 16, 2010 at 11:51 am
Bloomer.. come up out yo pockets you cheap basdid. I smell your feet from all the way over here in NJ. Damn go buy something fool.
December 16, 2010 at 11:47 am
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The mayor doesn’t walk as much as the rest of us. Once a month, when he takes the subway, he is driven to the entrance in an SUV.
September 21, 2010 at 9:52 am
Indeed. But you forgot to mention that when he get’s out of the bulletproof, bombproof SUV, he is carried down the stairs by 6 buff young ladies and only when the station alerts his driver and police escorts that there is a train either in the station , waiting for “Hizzonner”, or within 300 yards.
Before he boards , the cars are emptied of superfluous citizens by police with electric batons, in order that the mayor’s security not be endangered by close association with possibly infectious riff raff and Democrats.
When he has decided he has been aboard the train long enough for a photo-op, his girls carry him back upstairs. At the next stop he meets his waiting ride, which follows him everywhere he must “walk” in order to save his shoe leather and re-heeling costs.
April 13, 2011 at 10:38 am
WHO FREAKIN’ CARES?
September 21, 2010 at 9:41 am
He probably also eats cat food, why buy tuna when you can save a nickel ……
September 21, 2010 at 8:39 am
what is the brand and model of these fine shoes that last so long?
September 21, 2010 at 8:01 am
Why he wears good old Endicott Johnson shoes which he bough a gross of as the company went out of business as a result of the sneaker boom. This is why he only has two kinds.
April 13, 2011 at 10:42 am