Lady #1, looking at Time Warner buildings: Oh, look, it’s the twin towers!
Lady #2: Well… but like, those aren’t the real Twin Towers… cuz, they like… fell.
Lady #1: Well, they’re twins too, aren’t they?
–Columbus Circle
Headline by: Chuckles
Runners‐Up:
· “Oh, Look! The Octo‐Towers!” — Octomom
· “Some Porn Movies Shouldn’t Even Try to Have Dialogue” — Twin Peaks
· “They’re Fraternal, Right?” — Chelsie
· “Yeah, the Anorexic Looking One Is the Mary‐Kate Tower” — Errrrrn
American tourist on phone: So, I’ve just been to ground zero and it’s like totally overrated; it’s just a hole in the ground.
–Central park
Sensitive guy: She’s probably the number one cause of post‐traumatic stress syndrome since 9⁄11!
–Restaurant, 46th St & 9th Ave
Overheard by: TheGreenCat
Man, looking out window: Looks like they are building something.
–WTC Path Station
Tourist: That building is really tall, I think it’s the World Crade Center!
–Brooklyn Bridge
Cheerful tourist dad taking photo of tourist family: Smile and say 9⁄11!
–Battery Park
Overheard by: CJW
Elderly woman to Bulldog: If you were human, you would be a male model.
–44th & 3rd
Female on phone, trying to be discrete: I could take a million pictures without makeup and I could make it on the cover of Vogue. I am telling you I just want a model agent to come up to me and say “you are gorgeous, I want you to model.” I know I have what it takes!
–Outside Bobst Library
Overheard by: V Liebs
Scrawny short dude: You know, I like the model‐type chicks.
–Bay Ridge
Overheard by: Jon A.
Battery Park city mom, about son: He’s not even four and he can earn as much from one commercial as he can from a year of modeling.
–World Trade Centre Plaza
Girl walking around with a camera: People get so awkward when you’re carrying around a camera. Come on people! Give me something I can use here! You are all models!
–44th & Lexington
Overheard by: apparently a model
Drawing professor: I’m not allowed to sleep with the models.
–Pratt Institute
Black guy: That show was so white, I just wanted to bomb the place.
–W 49th & Broadway
Overheard by: Erin
19‐year‐old street vendor: Well, pipe bombs are easy…but they do a lot of damage.
–Chinatown
Guy dressed in sequined jacket, screaming on escalator: I can’t fucking believe this fucking shit. They have no fucking radios. What K‑Mart got no fucking radios? No fucking radios! (after a long pause) I’m gonna bomb this muthafucka to the ground.
–K Mart, 8th St
Overheard by: I Didn’t Know the Unibomber Got a Makeover
Man on phone: Do you know why they bombed on 7⁄11?
–50th St & 9th Ave
20‐something girl to friend, after large explosion is heard: Well, I’m from Detroit, so when I hear things like that it doesn’t even bother me.
–Union Square Holiday Market
Overheard by: isa
Woman, as a grungy guy walks by: Whenever I see sullen long‐haired bearded men in army jackets I am afraid something is going to get blown up.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Confabulation Nation
Pubescent teen #1: I thought the Twin Towers fell!
Pubescent teen #2: They did! Do you see them through the fence dummy?
Pubescent teen #1: From where I’m standing, they look like they’re still standing, and quite firmly at that! (nudges friend) Look!
Well‐endowed woman, catching them staring: Isn’t there a story time or something at Barnes & Noble for you kiddies? Run along, I think they have Elmo this week!
–WTC Site
(looking down at Washington Square Park’s currently under‐construction fountain)
Girl: Oh, is that where the World Trade Center used to be?
–Kimmel Center
Bensonhurst Italian guy on phone: I can’t fuckin’ wait for the Freedom Tower.
–Financial District
Suit on cell: Does anyone know where 9⁄11 is?
–Times Square
Overheard by: Jeffrey
Tourist: Is this the train to 9⁄11?
–R Train
Confused tourist (thinking he’s looking at the WTC site): Will you look at that? They put a fucking graveyard in there! I mean, what the fuck?
–St. Paul’s Church, Broadway & Fulton
Tourist: My favorite is my 9⁄11 Santa.
–Museum Shop, 53rd b/w 5th & 6th
Ten‐year old boy: Dad, how long will it take to get to the World Trade Center?
Father: Well, it will take a while. We have to go through 14th Street, 9th Street, Christopher Street, Hoboken, Pavonia/Newport, then to Grove Street. Then at Grove Street we switch trains to go to the World Trade.
Ten‐year old boy: Wow…and it’s all ’cause of those damn terrorists!
–PATH train, 23rd Street
Tourist: Can you tell me where grand zero is?
Lady: You mean ground zero?
Tourist: Yes, I guess it is the same thing, okay…
Lady pointing straight ahead: Walk straight ahead. You see the big gap in the sky? There you go.
Tourist: Wait. I don’t see anything. What, its all gone already?
Lady: Are you retarded?
–Corner of Church & Reade
Tourist #1: It was pretty cold, I remember… It was in January, right?
Tourist #2: It was September, you moron! September 11th!
–Ground Zero
Child: Tia Jeanette, did you know that the tourist‐ists brought down the twin towers?
Tia Jeanette: No, no, no, Anthony, it was the terror-ist.
Child: Ohhh…
–Ground Zero
