Teen daughter: I love the city. I can easily live here.
Mom: You don’t know anything about this city. Keep walking.
Teen daughter: Mom, I know enough. I drink Starbucks and loved Sex and the City.
–31st & 7th
Teen daughter: I love the city. I can easily live here.
Mom: You don’t know anything about this city. Keep walking.
Teen daughter: Mom, I know enough. I drink Starbucks and loved Sex and the City.
–31st & 7th
Giant black man holding hands with tiny son: Yo, you only four years old — you dunno what’s up!
Tiny boy: I’m three!
Giant black man: See? You don’t even know how old you are!
–Morningside Heights
Overheard by: Hannah
Five-year-old girl: Uncle Joey, we need to move!
30-something uncle: Why? What’s the matter?
Five-year-old girl: There’s cops over there… We gotta move before you get arrested again… [Whispers] You’re still on probation, right?
–139th St, near 40th Precinct, Bronx
Overheard by: What are we teaching our kids?
White mom: Which kitty is your favorite?
Little girl holding book of baby animals: The black one!
Mom: The black one? He sure is a cute kitty.
Little girl, loudly: Once you go black, you never go back!
Passing thug, flashing her a thumbs-up: Word!
White mom: I don’t care what your father says, we are so moving to Westchester.
–Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Straightfaced, but barely
Dad: Where would you like to eat? There’s an Italian restaurant across the street. Or maybe pizza?
Little girl: Are you going to shut up, or do I have to smack you?
–85th & York
Overheard by: Eric
Mother: God, it’s cold.
Little boy #1: Let’s get alcohol!
Little boy #2: A whole bottle!
–80th & Broadway
Kid: What’s that?! What’s that?!
Mom, reading magazine: It’s a picture of an airport.
Kid: What happened?!
Mom: Someone was arrested.
Kid: For what?!
Mom: For yelling.
Kid, seriously: At her kids?
–F train
Six-year-old: She didn’t like Ringo!
Mom: Well, who was her favorite Beatle?
Six-year-old: She doesn’t even like the Beatles!
Mom: Don’t talk to her.
–Park Slope
Overheard by: a
Little boy: Daddy, Daddy! Look at the cars! Shoot the cars!
Dad, making finger-gun: Bang, bang, bang, bang!
–12th & 4th
Overheard by: NYU girl
Middle school boy screaming to his father: Just because I like sausages–
Mom, interrupting: –Shhh…
–Brooklyn
