Prep #1: I can’t believe he cheated on her! That sucks!
Prep #2: I know. It sucks so bad, it’s practically ridiculous. I can’t think of anything worse than that.
Hobo: I can! The Holocaust!
–42nd and Broadway
Prep #1: I can’t believe he cheated on her! That sucks!
Prep #2: I know. It sucks so bad, it’s practically ridiculous. I can’t think of anything worse than that.
Hobo: I can! The Holocaust!
–42nd and Broadway
Little girl #1: I know what GAP stands for!
Little girls #2, #3 and #4: What?
Little girl #1: ‘Gay and proud,’ duh.
–In front of the GAP , Times Square
Overheard by: Micaela
Gangsta, trying to sell his rap album: Yo ma, you like hip hop?
Girl: I dabble.
–Times Square
Man: When I look up at all these buildings and I think about the people who live in them, I only have one question: Where do they all barbeque?
–Times Square
Overheard by: Susan Elliott
Guy: James Blunt is my homie. He gets me laid, on occasion.
–Men’ s room, MTV Time Square office.
Overheard by: najork
Woman: Oooh, now we’re in the other Times Square — the one with all the lights and stuff.
–Times Square shuttle
Overheard by: notrob
Local: Now, the Manhattan Bridge is just a block or two that way.
–Times Square
Overheard by: A tourist that ISN’T stupid
Conductor: Because of construction, the N train will be running on the N line.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Mars the Infomage
Woman: Coming here is like going to a dirt Disneyland.
–Time Square
European tourist: This Time Square… Does it… Does it… Exist?
–42nd St & 7th Ave
Guy #1: So we went to a baptism yesterday.
Guy #2: Wait, you’re Catholic. Not Baptism. I’m Baptism.
Guy #1: You’re Baptist.
–Times Square
Loud lady #1: My daughter is so happy, I mean she is just so happy! I look at her and I think, ‘Who is this happy person?’
Loud lady #2: That’s because she knows she is loved…
Loud lady #3: When I was her age I was writing in my diary, ‘I hate myself I wish I was dead.’
–53rd & Broadway
Overheard by: on my honeymoon
College guy: You know, I asked Hannah out sophomore year.
College girl: Really? Did she say yes?
College guy: Nah, she said I was like a brother to her.
College girl: Yeah, you’re like a brother to me, too, but a brother I know would probably rape me if given the right chance.
College guy: Nah.
College girl: What? Are you serious?
College guy: Yeah! Why?
College girl: I don’t know. I figured you’d at least try. You could at least pretend to want to.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Amused high school student
Tourist girl #1: You didn’t want to go to the Star, the Times Square or the Roxy… so what are we supposed to eat for lunch?
Tourist girl #2: Well, I don’t care, but none of these French food places.
Tourist girl #1: French food?
Tourist girl #2: Yeah, all these places are delicatessens… That’s French food!
Tourist girl #1: No, it’s like sandwiches and stuff!
Tourist girl#2: Then why don’t they just call it a deli?
–Outside the Roxy Deli, Times Square
Overheard by: Laura
Mom: Zacky! Where your ass at?
Small boy: Nowhere.
Mom: Yeah it is!
–Times Square
Young man: I think you should have put LIFE and not LIVE on your sign.
Jesus freak, holding sign reading THROUGH JESUS WILL YOU FIND ETERNAL LIVE: Oh, thank you. Have you accepted Jesus as your savior?
Young man: No, I’m a dirty Jew. I’m going to hell.
–42nd & 7th
