Tourist #1: You know that song that Billy Strayhorn wrote, called “Take The A Train”? He wrote it about taking the A train up to Harlem, and then he gave it to Duke Ellington. The rest is history.
Tourist #2: Who’s Duke Ellington?
Tourist #1: Never mind!
–A train
Guy: [something in Spanish]… how do you say “altar boy”? You know, the ones whose little dicks the priest sucks?
–7th & Ave A
Overheard by: Jenny B
Tourist girl #1: Oh my God, I feel like I’m in Sex and the City!
Tourist girl #2: Shut up, the natives can hear you.
–Central Park station
Overheard by: Spazza McChicken
Girl: Are you a conservative or a liberal?
Guy: I know all teenagers are supposed to be liberal, but I’m pretty conservative.
Girl: Oh my god, I know exactly what you mean. I was conservative until last week when I saw V for Vendetta. How hot is Natalie Portman?
–Bronx High School of Science
Conductor: Ladies and gentlemen, there is no need to rush onto this train, pushing others and possibly risking a fall, an injury, or worse. This is a 6 train and at this time of day there will be another 6 train every 5 minutes, so there is no need to risk injury… There will be another 6 train coming in 5 minutes. What do you think this is, the Tunaville Trolley? This is the 6 train!
–6 train
Guido: Hey you talk to me like that again, and I’ll talk to my people, who’ll talk to your people. And I’ll have you buried under Yankee Stadium with JFK.
Other guy: Don’t you mean under Giants Stadium with Jimmy Hoffa?
Guido: Whatever!
–Madison Square Garden
Little girl: Do you have HBO DIRECTV?
Little boy: I don’t know.
Little girl: If you have HBO, you do. My favorite movie is on there: Titanic. It’s about a girl who loves a boy and they’re all frozen at the end.
Little boy: Who gets slapped?
–F train
Overheard by: stephanie k
Teen girl #1: Bitches be dissin’ on Disney Channel.
Teen girl #2: Yeah.
Teen girl #1: But you know them bitches be runnin’ home to watch That’s So Raven.
Teen girl #2: It’s 7:15.
Teen girl #1: Shit, we gonna miss it.
–4 train
Overheard by: Noah Gallagher
Guy: But you’re my Asian…
Girl: I don’t know. You haven’t been feeding me lately.
Guy: You’re not a Tamagatchi!
Girl: Maybe I am.
–Tisch School of the Arts, Broadway & Waverly
Overheard by: Dan O’Connor
Crazy guy: I give you Jesus!
Blind man: Is that Mel Gibson? You nitwit!
–97th & Broadway
