Chinese girl: [in Chinese] Your luck just ran out.
Black girl: What the fuck did she say?
Chinese passerby: You are fucked.
–W 4th & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Ting
Chinese girl: [in Chinese] Your luck just ran out.
Black girl: What the fuck did she say?
Chinese passerby: You are fucked.
–W 4th & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Ting
Deranged woman to tranny friend: I am not a white woman. I do not take the yolk out of my eggs!
–14th St
Overheard by: Melanie from Queens
Homeless woman to white man holding white girlfriend’s hand: You fucking Indian faggot!
–Court St & Dean St, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Adam
White girl: He’s my favorite person in my building, because he’s ethnic.
–F train
Overheard by: djingo
Man staring at ‘Exit’ and ‘Salida’ signs on separate emergency doors: Huh, I wonder if Caucasians are supposed to exit right and Hispanics are supposed to exit left…
–Flight from NYC to Houston
Guy: I love it when Asians get high, because you can’t tell.
–Pace University
Overheard by: Pants
40-something Asian lady to daughter: No, it was not mixed race — He was pure Vulcan!
–Green St, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Heather Letzkus
Pretentious young woman on New York neighborhoods: It’s all pretty homogenous up around Central Park. Well, I mean, up by 107th street you’ll find some black kids on skateboards.
–R train
Overheard by: BrooklynDodgy
Black kid, pointing to a Hasidic Jewish man: Yo, check out the Amish dude!
Mother: He ain’t Amish, they wear straw hats.
Black kid: But he’s got a beard. Amish guys got beards. So he’s Amish.
–Uptown 4 train
Overheard by: jewish girl
Latina: Like white people. You know, like you.
Jewish guy: I’m not white, I’m Jewish.
Latina: Didn’t you heard, Jew is the new white.
Jewish guy: Oh.
–4th St & Broadway
Overheard by: Noemi
Girl: Have you ever realized that we didn’t have any black friends in elementary school?
Preppy friend: That’s because all the black kids were in special ed.
–Sugar Sweet Sunshine, Rivington St
Overheard by: Lauren C
Chick: Wait, so he was the black dude from Tennessee on the debate team that you were talking to?
Dude: Yeah. Well, no. He was normal.
Chick: What do you mean?
Dude: He was white.
–Soho
Overheard by: drunk at the bar
Old matronly black woman: Wanna go to a hotel? I feel like fucking…Let’s go!
Young Pakistani waiter: Get out of here, you crazy old bat!
Old matronly black woman: I still got it in me to fuck!
–Coffee Shop, Bronx
Overheard by: soulgrrl
Shiksa #1: So he goes, "Things changed, I moved to the city." What the fuck kind of bullshit excuse is that?
Shiksa #2: Oh he moved to the city? Whoa….the city Jew is a whole different breed of Jew.
–51st & 2nd
Overheard by: In agreement
Girl: I just heard a Britney Spears cover. It was odd.
Guy: I like her cover of… I think it was a James Brown song.
Girl: "My Prerogative"?… oh, no, that’s Bobby Brown.
Guy: It was some brown person.
–57th & 8th
Girl: You really don’t realize how many Indian kids there are at NYU until you have really shitty sex with one of them and have to try to avoid him.
–Broadway & Waverly
Overheard by: Jake
Indian guy, to white guy: Do you see the color of my skin? I’m obviously more intelligent than you.
–Makers
Very white girl: It was so diverse and, like, I don’t know, I felt like a minority.
—Union Square
Guy: I don’t discriminate based on race, but you in particular are a suspicious-looking motherfucker.
–Red Sky Lounge, 29th & Park
Guy on cell: You fucking idiot. You don’t have jaundice. You’re Asian.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: another asian
Frenchman: Hurry! That chocolate man is taking your parking space!
–Christopher St
Overheard by: Melissa Coppola
Black guy, to white infant: Hey! Hey! Awww, shit. You anotha’ one of dose fucking crackers! Cracker-ass crackers fucking everywhere.
–48th & 8th
Overheard by: The Cracker’s Mama
