NYU boy #1: I'm getting a bowel movement just thinking about going in that club.
NYU boy #2: No, that's cuz you're drinking coffee…
NYU boy #3: Oh yeah!
–NYU Dining Hall
Overheard by: Maya G.
NYU boy #1: I'm getting a bowel movement just thinking about going in that club.
NYU boy #2: No, that's cuz you're drinking coffee…
NYU boy #3: Oh yeah!
–NYU Dining Hall
Overheard by: Maya G.
Old drunk hobo to friends: Let me tell you guys a story. Back when I was breaking in to fucking cars this broad comes at me and takes me to this commune. Gotta be at least 50 hippies, everyone's fucking everyone, always blazed, I'm fucking everything that moves because I'm 18 and my dick is hard all the time, and all the women are walking around all fucking…
All friends together: Naked!
–4th Ave & 13th St
Overheard by: rpk
Bearded man to hippie woman: I'm married, you're married, my ex-girlfriend's married, and we're holding hands!
Hippie woman: Weeeeee!
–University Place & 10th St
Overheard by: Murphy
Woman #1: They're teaching sex ed in school. But he wasn't understanding what “menstruation” was, so I told him it was like throwing a party, and you put up decorations and make a cake, but no one shows up so you tear it all down and throw it away.
Woman #2: That's clever.
Woman #1: And that premature ejaculation is when everyone shows up to the party two hours too early while you're still getting ready.
–Bench, Central Park
Overheard by: Rebecca
Gay guy #1: So how was the party last night?
Gay guy #2: Oh, it wasn't too bad, but there were a bit too many tacos and not enough sausages, if you know what I mean.
–Fordham University
Man trying on hat: Hey! Do I look like John Wayne in this hat? Watch out, pilgrim! I'm planting roses!
–Botanical Garden
Girl to friend: I need a twig or a leaf or an herb or somethin'.
–C Train
White guy on cell: It's the goddamn Cherry Blossom Festival… so get your ass out here.
–Outside Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Maintenance worker to another: Oh, come on! It's not working now. Let's try plugging it into the tree.
–42 St & 2nd Ave
Flower vendor: Shut up nigga, I'll slap you! Fresh roses!
–7th Ave & 26th
Overheard by: Todd
Chick on cell: In the past three weeks, I've been to more tranny-hosted parties than non-tranny hosted parties.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Ladle
Mini-Asian teen: Well he's not a real man in the sense that he has a penis, or like, male reproductive organs.
–6 Train
Loud woman: I can't tell whether he's a lesbian or just gay.
–Bamboo 52
Overheard by: Aidan
Angry man: Suck my pussy dick!
–Canal St
Overheard by: Kaitlen
Black woman to group of friends, after watching an attractive black man walk by: Mmmmm, he so fine! I wanna stick my dick up that ass!
–Duane Reade
Bum on subway: (singing) when I go into space, I'ma take a stripper wit' me!
(woman puts a dollar bill in his cup)
Bum: I'ma take a trannie too, but the trannie cost extra!
(man puts a dollar in his cup)
Bum: La dee da!
–L Train from Williamsburg
Drunk black guy #1: That’s when I started cooking with weed. The Jamaicans told me you can cook with it.
Drunk black guy #2: Yeah?
Drunk black guy #1: I made chicken soup with that shit. I had soupy chicken weed. I was high as fuck.
Drunk black guy #2: Yeah?
Drunk black woman: You ever had weed fishcakes? Weed fishcakes. I make that shit.
Drunk black guy #2: Fishcakes?
Drunk black woman: And pork fried weed.
Drunk black guy #1: I want to come to your parties. You creative.
–4 Train
Overheard by: Unrelenting Monkey
Girl: Well, I didn’t shave my armpits this morning.
Guy: Oh.
Girl: Yeah, that was my idea of celebrating!
–12th St & Broadway
Ghetto Hispanic guy #1: So where are you ladies coming from?
Uninterested girl #1: That hipster party.
Ghetto Hispanic guy #2: Yo, we were there too!
Ghetto Hispanic guy #3: But ya’ll probably didn’t notice us ’cause we’re Hispanic.
Uninterested girl #2: Yeah, that sounds like us.
–Lorillard & 189th