Hippy girl: So yeah, we are gonna be living in this yurt for a year without electricity or running water or anything. It’s all about getting back to our roots and stuff.
Guy: No electricity or anything? What if you have to call someone or something?
Hippy girl: I’ll just use my cell phone.
–Central Park
Overheard by: Kelly Ernst
Bus driver: Move to the back of the bus. They’re giving free diamonds in the back of the bus. See that lady in the back for your free diamond.
–M2 bus
Guy: I hate this city. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a production.
–W 44th, near filming of Spiderman 3
Overheard by: Alex
MTA guy: Let ’em off, let ’em off. It’s just like sex, you gotta get it out to get it in.
–1 train
Overheard by: Andrew Litwin
Black woman: This here is Chelsea. It’s where all the rich homosexuals live.
–18th Street between 7th & 8th
Teenage kid: There are some hot Chinese bitches at this stop, son!
–Fulton Street G station
Overheard by: Thomas Bugarin
Woman: Well, I’m in Soho now…
–Union Square
Overheard by: Davis McDavis
Queer: Oh, I went to Queens once. By accident. I was coming back from La Guardia and the taxi driver said he was taking me on a shortcut.
–Starlight, Avenue A
Overheard by: Lukas
Thug: Next stop: Ghettoville, USA! That’s real America, none of this Japanese-American bullshit. Mmmm…smell that? Smells like the East Village!
–A train
Guy: This is the new Wall Street Times building.
–41st & 8th construction site
Man: See, that’s the one. If I was gonna write it a letter, I would begin, “Dear Ugliest Building in New York City”.
–Westin Hotel, Times Square
Overheard by: Kayla Cagan
Guy on cell: Bond Street? It’s north of Houston Street so it’s not in Soho. But I don’t know what the neighborhood is called.
–City Hall Park
Girl: How do you like NYU so far?
Guy: I like it a lot.
Girl: So, are you at least bi-curious yet?
–8th & Broadway
Overheard by: Kelvin M Loh
Guy: Hey, I haven’t seen you in, like, two years.
Girl #1: Yeah, not since that time we made out at Cristina’s party…then you went to Paris.
Guy: …I’m gay now.
Girl #1: Oh.
Girl #2: NYU boys should really come with warning labels.
–Waverly Building elevator, Waverly Place
Girl: Omigod! I saw you on the internet!
Hobo: You’re like the hundredth person to tell me that tonight.
–Central Park
(cf. this entry.)
Woman: Where’s the restaurant?
Museum lady: It’s the next door on your left.
Woman: Oh, how do you get in?
–MoMA
Ghetto guy #1: Man, that dude’s hair is always fucked up.
Ghetto guy #2: Yo, he don’t got no hair!
Ghetto guy #1: No, I mean his head is fucked up.
–Chambers Street station
Overheard by: mexican on wheels
Lady #1: So she telling me that every year on Good Friday, at the time he passed away, 3 o’clock, it gets dark.
Lady #2: That’s deep.
–Elevator, 42nd & Broadway
Overheard by: Alex Gordon
