Teenie girl: Omigod! Idea! Do you want to go rent a movie?
Her much older boyfriend: Sure. Have you seen The Firm?
Teenie girl: What is that, like a porno?
–Hershey store, Times Square
Overheard by: Just wanted some gummy bears
Teenie girl: Omigod! Idea! Do you want to go rent a movie?
Her much older boyfriend: Sure. Have you seen The Firm?
Teenie girl: What is that, like a porno?
–Hershey store, Times Square
Overheard by: Just wanted some gummy bears
Amiable but very intoxicated hobo: I don’t believe this, how long you been a seargent?
World’s weariest transit copy: Eight years Miquel, you drunken jackass.
–Port Authority
Girl #1: Shit, West Nile virus is in the United States?
Girl #2: Are you kidding me?
Girl #1: I thought that shit was only in New Jersey!
–Dean & Deluca
Overheard by: Luckily not a bridge and tunnel girl
Girl #1: Will you stop staring up at the buildings? You look like a terrorist.
Girl #2: Uh…
Girl #1: Tourist. I mean tourist.
–53rd & 6th
Lady on train: What are you watching?
Overexcited man with portable DVD: The Da Vinci Code.
Lady: Oh! Cool! Is it good?
Overexcited man: It’s EXCELLENT!
Lady: Oh — I heard from people that the book was better.
Lady’s friend: That’s bullshit. She doesn’t read.
–Penn Station, LIRR
Overheard by: Jordo VB
Suit on cell: Well you should be careful, remember what happened last time… Well you have to remember, she can eat whatever she wants and not gain weight, you gain weight… Whaaaaat? You think you weigh less than 130? Okaaaaaay.
–23rd & 6th
Girl on cell: Ya know, it’s the smart people not having kids, or maybe having one or two. Its the uneducated that are reproducing more uneducated people. You know that 64% of kids born today are minority. We should build that fence bewteen us and Mexico.
–Ray Bari, 56th & 3rd
Very busy person: In class I start saying “African American” and then I’m like, fuck it, and I say “black black black…” I don’t have time to be saying “African American.”
–27th & 10th
Man with facial hair: You can only really pull off a Fu Man Chu if you’re a cop, a gay porn star, or a pirate.
–Virgin Records, Times Square
Guy to his girlfriend: You are one hairy bastard
–78th & 1st
Girl: The thing is, he’s too lazy to be a drug dealer.
–Bleecker & Mott
Guy leaving: See you tomorrow, I’m off to do some shoplifting!
–Smith & Union, Red Hook
Yuppie mom: Do you think my baby is old enough to do yoga?
–Union & Henry, Red Hook
Pregnant woman on cell: Mom, I gotta go. I can’t find Jason and I need to take him home before he plays Hide and Go Soil Yourself behind the stuffer machine.
–Build-A-Bear, 5th & 46th
Overheard by: Anna Lindgren
