VIDEO: Crown Heights Man Makes Homeless Comfortable One Shoe at a Time
(DNAINFO) Savannah Cox | December 1, 2015 — In the city that never sleeps, a good pair of shoes can mean the difference between a painful and relatively peaceful day — and it’s also something that many among New York’s homeless population lack.
Andre McDonnell saw this firsthand in 2012. While in SoHo one day that summer, McDonnell, 41, noticed a homeless man standing barefoot on the searing concrete.
The Crown Heights resident removed his new pair of sneakers on the spot and offered them to the homeless man, who accepted them, McDonnell recounted to HLN in a recent interview.