Girl shouting to band members unbuttoning their shirts: Take it off!
Guy in denim vest without shirt, opening vest wide: You want me to take it off?!
Girl, to man: No! Not you! You leave it on!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Liz Erd
Girl shouting to band members unbuttoning their shirts: Take it off!
Guy in denim vest without shirt, opening vest wide: You want me to take it off?!
Girl, to man: No! Not you! You leave it on!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Liz Erd
Woman to friend: God, it’s so hot! I’m going to take my shirt off once we get outside.
Random guy: Nice!
–Sullivan & Broadway
Tall blonde: I just don’t think I’d be comfortable on a nude beach.
Boyfriend: I would be.
–Union Square West
Overheard by: Michelle
Old man on cell: Okay, well, I’m going to let you go. I’m seeing Spring Awakening, and I have to get settled and take my clothes off before the show starts.
–Eugene O’Neill Theater
Overheard by: Miki
Woman on cell: Mark, unless I undressed you, I don’t need your help!
–Outside CBS Broadcast Center, W 57th St
Fully-clothed little boy running with friend: I feel naked!
–Battery Park
Chick: You can still laugh with your shirt off.
–23rd & 6th
Overheard by: wondering why this even needed to be said
Banker: Hermione better nude up for the next Harry Potter.
–60 Wall St
Hoochie: Let me tell you, there is a huge difference between a generally good party and a generally good party with naked girls.
–St. Mark’s & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: Steve
Hoochie #1: … Because what could happen is you end up in Chicago and he ends up naked.
Hoochie #2: And that would be so weird.
Hoochie #1: Yeah, that would be so awkward.
–33rd & Broadway
Overheard by: …i’ll say it would be awkward!
Guy #1: Have you done the naked yoga thing?
Guy #2: No, not yet.
Girl: I have to imagine that’s a little dangerous for a guy.
Guy #1: No, it’s okay. The cock pretty much knows where to go.
Girl: Not in my experience.
–19th & 3rd
Jogging yuppie #1: Yeah, and then we went climbing up a cliff.
Jogging yuppie #2: Naked?
–69th & Park
Chick: So, with my toplessness and your bottomlessness we will equal one naked person tonight?
–Harlem
Overheard by: McN
Lady suit on cell: I told her to try the site at home and she screws her face up, scoffs at me and storms off like I’d told her to go stand on the BQE naked!
–PATH train, 9th St
Overheard by: Zenana
Cool cop: She looks great when she is naked, but when she is dressed, you know, not so great.
–1 train, 96th St
Chick to friends: The way he said it was, ‘I sleep naked so if I have to get up at night to go to the bathroom, why should I put boxers on? I’ll just put a sock on it.’
–Starbucks, Times Square
Cute hipster on cell: I was so confused this morning. I woke up naked in Queens with a stripper! I was like, ‘Fuck, I guess I had a good night…’
–Clark & Henry St, Brooklyn
Drunk guy: … And she was all drunk, dancing around naked in the attic again.
–Restaurant, Waverly & MacDougal
Old black man #1: I’m gonna go get a Post.
Old black man #2: A brotha reading the Post? Oh, man…
Old black man #1: Man, it’s only 25 cents. And it’s got page six!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Jill
Headline by: Dave
Runners-Up:
· “Hahaha…wait…black people? READING?” – pants
· “I always sleep under that one” – Mike B
· “Judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my paper” – nyinsf
· “That’s the quilted page” – N. A. Cargo
High school girl #1: Imagine posing for all of these artists.
High school girl #2: Yeah, but you’d be standing around naked all of the time.
High school girl #1: You probably didn’t have to be entirely naked.
–Vollard exhibit, the Met