College dude #1: So what do you think of Williamsburg?
College dude #2, with a look of mild distaste: Oh, it's pretty cool, but it's such a scene!
–Bedford Ave & N 7th
College dude #1: So what do you think of Williamsburg?
College dude #2, with a look of mild distaste: Oh, it's pretty cool, but it's such a scene!
–Bedford Ave & N 7th
High school girl to raucous group of friends: Oh man, remember the time we dared him to lick the church?
Group of friends: (wild laughter)
–Outside Grace Church, Broadway & 10th St
College boy #1: The no-pants subway ride was fun.
College boy #2: Dude, they should combine that with that “go topless day”!
College boy #1: I know! When all the pictures are on the internet, it will save us all the trouble of having to jerk off between two different websites.
–NYU, Washington Square
Overheard by: Jaime L.
Confused student: Wait, who did Obama run against?
Smart student: McCain!
Confused student I though Bush ran against McCain.
Smart student: No! Bush and McCain are in the same party.
Confused student: Right. (pause) Wait, Bush is a Republican?
–High School
Student #1: I only have one sock on right now because the top of my right foot keeps itching like crazy.
Student #2, sarcastically: Ohmigod, you're so edgy!
–Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Undergrad student #1: The day after Valentine's Day is a holiday, right?
Undergrad student #2: Yeah, it's like Veterans Day or something.
Undergrad student #3: I think it's Martin Luther King's Day.
Undergrad student #1: I thought that was last month.
Undergrad student #3: No, February is Black History Month.
–St. John's University, Queens Campus
NYU boy #1: Jeff Goldblum enslaved my parents.
NYU boy #2: Jeff Goldblum lay siege to my castle.
NYU girl #2: Jeff Goldblum killed my velociraptor.
–3rd Ave & 11th St
Overheard by: Bruce Lee
Man dressed in briefs, on Halloween, to policeman: I want you to arrest me! She didn't listen to me! I want you to arrest me right now!
–W 17th St
Overheard by: The Girl in Vintage Formal
Slightly buzzed 40-something man, in very loud hushed tone: I know your son is in jail! Isn't he?
–Mid-Manhattan Library
Man to another: They let him go because my daughter couldn't identify him. But now she got glasses.
–Ave B & 6th St
Overheard by: Miss V
Agitated man, yelling into cell: I don't love you. I hate you. I did ten years and got seven felonies for you.
–Brooklyn
Girl to another: So I wrote "we're being kidnapped' on a piece of paper and pressed it against the window.
–Famous Famiglia, 111th St & Broadway
Overheard by: Lucy
High school girl: That nigga just got *out* of jail. That reminds me, I need to go to Bushwick.
–Grand St & Bushwick Ave
Overheard by: rpk
College girl in line: How did you answer the question asking about “nature versus nurture”?
College guy: That's easy. I just said “that's when parents let their kids run around in nature.”
College girl: Oh… right.
–Starbucks
College boy #1: But what if zombies overtook Manhattan?
College boy #2: Then we'd be fucked. Simple as that. They're too many people here, the entire island would be zombies.
College boy #1: But what if we hid out in K-mart? With guns?
College boy #2: You mean the K-mart we just passed? Even if we managed to barricade the doors, there's an entrance to the subway, we'd be fucked.
College #1: I wonder what the zombie survival guide has to say about this.
–3rd Ave & St. Mark's
