Guy: They had to cut off my favorite jeans, and my Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! hoodie. I was pissed, man. I made that thing myself. I put the pixelated blood on it and everything. I would have said
something, but you know, I was kind of unconscious.
–Canal Street 6 station
Overheard by: Caitlyn Howell
Chick #1: And I was like, goddamn, it’s food…I can eat it, you know?
Chick #2: Seriously. Just because she’s anorexic doesn’t mean she can impose her thoughts about food on you!
Chick #3: Wait, wait, wait. Back up. You ate a cracker you found on the floor of the subway?
–Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Bayard Street
Bags woman: Ladies…Gucci, Prada, Louis! Ladies…
Hot dog guy: Ladies, get your Gucci hot dogs here…Prada hot dogs!
–Canal & Broadway
Overheard by: Lori
Woman: He wants the pad tai with chicken, no vegetables.
Man: I can’t have vegetables. My vegetarian wife just left me.
–Tai Hong Lau, Mott Street
Overheard by: Amie
Woman on pay phone: They can’t arrest him because he didn’t even expose himself.
–Worth & Centre
Overheard by: Daniel Krieger
