Brooklyn

Yeah, This is Gonna End Well

Crazy guy: Can I taste some of your saliva?
Teen girl: What he just say?
Teen boy: He wanted to taste my salami?
Teen girl: Ha, ha. Say yeah.
Teen boy: Yeah!

–7th Street & 3rd Avenue

Posted on April 4, 2006
Body Parts, Brooklyn, Pick-up Lines, Sex & Relationships, Stupidity, Teens

“Miss, you’ll have to speak up. You’re all muffled.”

Mom: If you don’t stop acting up I’m going to push you back into my tummy.
Little girl: No you can’t.
Mom: And why not? You came out of me, so I can certainly shove you back in.
Little girl: Because if you do, I’ll start screaming and call the cops on you.

–Daffy’s, Atlantic Center

Overheard by: Need a Belt

Posted on April 3, 2006
Anger Management, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Crime and Punishment, Parents, Should've Used a Condom, Violence

The Sphinx’ Other Riddle

Ghetto guy #1: You got a Hasidic for a boss? Ha, ha, ha.
Ghetto guy #2: Yeah, that guy is cheap.
Ghetto guy #1: Yo. They got all the dough. All the dough…Dude wear the same clothes every day!
Ghetto guy #2: Ha, ha, ha. Yo, that motherfucker is cheap.
Ghetto guy #1: Same clothes, man. You got the little boy shit, the teenager shit, then the man shit. Three sets of clothes for the entire life. They got all the dough.

–Verb, Williamsburg

Overheard by: Jarrah TG

Posted on April 2, 2006
Anger Management, Brooklyn, Fashion, Jews, Money & Class, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Thugs, Williamsburg

He Got the Piccolo

Hipster guy: I’m doing two 7th graders at a time now.
Girl: The same two?
Hipster guy: Naw, I couldn’t stand those little bitches; these are their friends or something…and I don’t even have to take my guitar.

–Elevator, DUMBO

Posted on April 2, 2006
Brooklyn, Elementary & Middle School, Elevators, Friendship, Hipsters, Sex, Sex & Relationships

The NYC Sights of Wednesday One-liners

Suit on cell: Why would I lie to you? When have I ever lied to you? Listen, you and I both know there are “no nice little neighborhoods” in Queens!

–11th Street & 4th Avenue

Overheard by: jayKayEss

Posted on March 29, 2006
Brooklyn, Central Park, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, NYC Geography, Old People, On Cell, On the Bus, On the Subway, One-liners, Queens, Suits, The Village, Times Square, Tourist Attractions, Travel, Venues, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

Wednesday One-liners Count Calories

Woman on cell: Caviar? Nigga, ain’t no caviar in Harlem.

–57th & 8th

Posted on March 29, 2006
Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Chinatown, Food, Hobos, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Murray Hill and Gramercy, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Queers, Sex, Sex & Relationships, Teens, The Village, Upper East Side, Washington Heights and Inwood, Williamsburg

Wednesday One-liners Read Vogue

Girl: Did you see those capris? They looked like the girl had her vagina on sideways!

–Windsor Terrace

Posted on March 29, 2006
Body Parts, Brooklyn, Fashion, Ghetto Chicks, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Jews, Jobs & Careers, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Old People, On the Subway, One-liners, Shopping, Stupidity, The Bronx, The Village, Times Square, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Vendors & Street Performers

Wednesday One-liners Turn Up the Radio

Tween girl: The thing most people don’t get about techno is, it’s so emotional.

–76th & 2nd

Overheard by: Rachel

Posted on March 29, 2006
About Celebrities, Brooklyn, Central Park, Health and Hygiene, Hobos, JAPs, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Music, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Parents, Pop Culture, Restaurants & Cafes, STDs, Subway conductors, Teens, The Bronx, Times Square, Union Square and East Village, Upper East Side

Wednesday One-liners Turn It Up a Notch

Teen girl: God, you are so self-conscious sometimes I want to punch you in the face.

–A train

Overheard by: Niki

Posted on March 29, 2006
Anger Management, Asians, Brooklyn, Health and Hygiene, Kink, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On the Subway, One-liners, Park Slope, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Relationships, Sex, Sex & Relationships, Staten Island Ferry, Subway conductors, Teens, Thugs, Trains Not Subway, Violence

Wednesday One-liners Flick the Clicker

Chick: She’s like a human Muppet…But not sexually.

–Bleecker & Sullivan

Overheard by: John Auld

Posted on March 29, 2006
Brooklyn, College, Columbia (& Barnard), Harlem & Morningside Heights, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Old People, On Cell, One-liners, Pop Culture, Sex, Sex & Relationships, The Village, TV, Union Square and East Village, Upper East Side