Teen girl #1: He broke up with me on Facebook!
Teen girl #2: Like, on your wall?
Teen girl #1: No, he just changed his status back to ‘Single’!
–Metro North terminal, Grand Central
Teen girl #1: He broke up with me on Facebook!
Teen girl #2: Like, on your wall?
Teen girl #1: No, he just changed his status back to ‘Single’!
–Metro North terminal, Grand Central
Hipster teen #1: Dude, where the hell is Madison Square Garden?
Hipster teen #2: Yo, I don’t know. My mom said it’s over here somewhere. It was right here last time I came!
Hipster teen #1: Dude, they don’t just move Madison Square Garden.
Hipster teen #2: Yeah, you never know, though. With all them terrorists and shit, they got to move stuff all the time.
–36th & Broadway
Overheard by: Corrie
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #1: … And then they gave her a breathalizer, and my mom said I couldn’t drink ’til ninth grade!
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #2: My brother got a breathalizer!
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #3: I want a breathalizer.
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #1: Why?
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #3: To play with!
–Indian restaurant, 6th St & 1st Ave
Overheard by: Ohmygodstopservingthem
Dude: Man, it was harder to cheat on that test than to just do it!
–23rd & Lex
Overheard by: Lisa
Girl on cell: Yo! I’m in class trying to act all straight, and it’s hard. No, I have a test right now. I took like four o’ that shit. I have to go, my professor’s here.
–John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Overheard by: hannah
JAP: Well, the professor hates me. He only thinks of me as the girl who leaves 20 minutes into his class, and I don’t know how to change it.
–Shun Lee Palace
Overheard by: colette
Student: Shit, my iPod is more important than my classes.
–Borough of Manhattan Community College
Overheard by: Caitl
Hipster teen: He got rejected from community college? He must have written on his essay, ‘I want to prey on Bronx Science kids and mug them.’
–6 train, 68th St
Overheard by: glad they went to private school
Teen hippie: I hate the system with a passion. It’s so systematic, I want to kill its children.
Friend: Dude, we are its children.
–Greenwich Village
Teen boy #1: You want her to suck your dick?
Teen boy #2: She did, but I don’t want to make out with her.
–4th St & 7th Ave, Park Slope
Overheard by: jayloo
Teen boy tourist #1: Okay, finally we’re on the damn train.
Teen boy tourist #2: Yeah, for real. Take forever, god!
Teen boy tourist #1: Hey, you know, those people lied to us! They said we can take the N, but this one is going to 14th Street, too. I read the map.
Teen boy tourist #2: Why did they lie to us?
Teen boy tourist #1: Probably because we were acting like such tourists. That’s probably what they do, just stand in the subway waiting to prey on confused tourist kids.
Teen boy tourist #2: We should get some iPods. That would fix it.
Teen boy tourist #1: Why would that fix it?
Teen boy tourist #2: Look around. I count five people on this train with iPods. They make you look ‘New York.’
–Downtown W train
Overheard by: The N would have gotten you there faster…
Headline by: Sean Boudreau
Runners-Up:
· “But the fold up maps make us look like we’re from Jersey.” – Jeff
· “For every ipod in the subway, apple kills a tourist” – monkey
· “Know What Else Is Authentic? Gunshot Wounds” – J.M. Berger
· “Losing The “God Hates Fags” Shirts Would Also Help” – miss c
· “New York: Uhh, Lose Ten Pounds, Convert to Judaism, and Maybe We’ll Talk” – salute deez nuts
· “Nobody tell them about the secret handshake” – Destroyer
· “Sure, you can buy the ipod, but the disaffected stare can only be acquired from years of indifference” – morgz
· “That look isn’t new york, it’s contempt” – squirrel
· “You can keep them in your fanny packs” – jh
Teen girl: Do you ever feel like you’re not enough? Like the more you try, the worse-off you are?
Teen guy: Totally. It’s like, every game of solitaire I play, the lower score I get.
–Hard Rock Cafe store, Times Square
Teen boy #1: No, the gold one is called ‘CD3’ or something. The little one is, like, ‘R4M23.’
Teen boy #2: I think the gold robot was named ‘R3DM24.’ It was the small one that was ‘C-something.’
Teen boy #3: No, man, the gold guy was ‘C3DDO,’ and the little silver one was ‘RH52’ or some shit.
Frustrated 30-something lady behind them: The gold one is ‘C3PO’ and the smaller one is ‘R2-D2’!
Teen boy #2: Oh, thanks — you can tell we’re not Trekkies.
–M15 bus
Prep chick: Is it amoebas that come from Mexico? Or am I thinking of armadillos?
–5th Ave
Overheard by: Francesca
White teen girl: So, is there a Friday next week?
–4 train
Overheard by: Gregorio
Girlfriend: If your friends told you to jump down a bridge, would you do it?
–D train, Grand Concourse
Suit to black gangster holding large chameleon: Excuse me, sir. What species of dinosaur is that?
–Manhattan-bound F train
Overheard by: Josh
Teen: So how much would the game cost if it was $17.99?
–Game Stop, Forest Hills
Future zoologist: They have sea lions here! They’re like lions — from the sea!
–Central Park Zoo
Overheard by: Andrew K.