Missed Connection Seeks Yellow-Shod Man After Subway Sparks Fly

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Devin Custalow will spend Valentine’s Day standing in front of her big, blue mural, waiting for the potential soulmate in yellow shoes she lost on the subway.

“You were in yellow shoes, glancing at me, and pretending not to listen to me and my roommate discuss how I wanted to talk to you,” Custalow, 25, wrote in her Missed Connections post on Craigslist, that’s now a large sign on Wythe Avenue near North 10th Street.

“I know you probably won't see this, but if you do, say hi this time."

Custalow is hoping that her 20-foot mural will do what an online missive could not, and reach the stranger with dark shaggy hair, a plaid shirt and yellow shoes that she met on the G train on her way home from Coney Island.

“This whole train ride we’re making eye contact,” Custalow said. “I even missed my stop so I might get a chance to talk to him.”

But things went awry when Custalow and the yellow shod-man got lost in a crowd heading toward a shuttle bus in Bed-Stuy, the Clinton Hill resident said. He got on a shuttle, but she didn’t make it.

The last Custalow saw of the man was him looking around the bus, she believes, for her.

“Then and there I decided to do Craigslist missed connections,” Custalow said. “It just felt like one of those experiences that was screaming for it.”

Custalow and her roommates sped home and teamed up to write the post on the site where New Yorkers try to reach their fellow strangers online.

But the man in the yellow shoes never responded.

So Custalow, who works with a New York City media agency, leveraged her connections to get the poster painted on Wythe Avenue and North 10th Street.

And Custalow will wait there on Wednesday at 1 p.m. to find out if a missed connection can be rectified.

“I live by the phrase, ‘it’s meant to be,’” Custalow said. “If you put those intentions out into the world, whatever’s meant to be will work out.”

“I’ll be really excited and really nervous if he shows up,” she said, but added, “Hopefully he doesn’t have a girlfriend.”

Park MGM Las Vegas, the hotel that's helping Devin find her G Train Stranger, will broadcast the potential encounter on their website.

Correction: Custalow will be waiting at 1 p.m., not 11 a.m. as this story originally stated

Photos courtesy of Park MGM Las Vegas