Little boy: Where are we going, Joseph*?
Huge American Indian in floor-length fur coat: I’m your grandpa. If you call me Joseph, I’ll kick your ass.
Little boy: Why?
Huge American Indian in floor-length fur coat: It’s about respect.
–9th & 4th station, Park Slope
Overheard by: Glad my grandpas are dead
Asian guy #1: Ok, here’s the train.
Asian guy #2: Dude! No way! That’s the Q!
Asian guy #1: What?
Asian guy #2: Dude! You couldn’t pay me to take the Q! Last time I took the Q, I got on around Canal Street and next thing I knew, I was in. . like. . . Brooklyn!
–Herald Square station
Girl #1: You know you can spell your name R-A-C-H-L-E too, right?
Girl #2: That’s Rach-lee.
Girl #1: No, the way it sounds listen to the LE, like “apple”. You don’t spell apple A-P-P-E-L.
Girl #2: Yeah, but that’s dumb because I am not an apple.
–Sheepshead Bay station
Overheard by: Lena Ner
Lady yelling at old guy: Where you goin’ today, Harold?!
Old man, smiling: You my wife?
–Q station, Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn
Overheard by: cloisterpunk
Indignant woman in crowded elevator: You're standing on my foot!
Man: What are feet for?
–168th St Subway Elevator
Overheard by: AWAvatar
Girl #1: That place is so off the hook.
Girl #2: I totally need to go. What days is it open?
Girl #1: Yo, every day. Like 400 days a year.
–77th Street R station
Woman, picking up rubber ball, to employee: Oh, what can you do with this?
–Scholastic Store, Soho
Freshman girl: What do we, like, throw in the recycling bin?
–Leon M. Goldstein High School
Overheard by: Robert Gleyberman
Woman, descending stairs onto train platform: Oh my god! Is that a train?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: curious to know what else she was expecting to see at a train station…
Random tourist to young Asian kid: Do you sell fake bags?
–Canal Street Station
Astute shopper: Do you take Duane Reade cards here?
–Duane Reade
Overheard by: fellow customer
Guy on cell: Bagels with butter? Where am I gonna get that?
–Upper East Side
Overheard by: sarahjane
Hipster: Jesus! This place is worse than Austin seven years ago!
–Bedford St. Station, Williamsburg
Overheard by: K.
Burly man who pulled frat boy out of tracks: Dude, are you drunk?
Frat boy: Ah… Ah… I don’t know. I guess I had something to drink.
Burly man: Dude, next time you get on a train make sure it’s there first!
–1-2-3 platform, 96th St
Punk chick: So how much should I take out?
Punk guy: Yeah, you should take out like $7,000. Or better yet $10,000. Better too much than too little.
Punk chick: OK…
Punk guy: Yeah, but wait until we get out of the city to take it out, like Long Island. You don’t want to be walking around Brooklyn with that kind of cash…it would be like b-boy lottery.
–A train
