Young tourist #1: What's in Queens?
Young tourist #2: I dunno. Residential?
Young tourist #1: People live there?
–6 Train
Overheard by: Eric F.
Young tourist #1: What's in Queens?
Young tourist #2: I dunno. Residential?
Young tourist #1: People live there?
–6 Train
Overheard by: Eric F.
Frantic woman: Excuse me, is this the train to Manhattan?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: oliver
Tourist to companion: We've left the village now, but I don't think this is Soho.
–Stanton & Orchard
Middle-aged woman in sharp looking suit: I thought Croatia was an Asian country in Europe.
–4 Train
Woman to friends: I had four kids today label New York in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. I am such a great teacher.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Mickey and Gabe
Street hawker: You guys going up in the Empire State Building? Need tickets?
Tourist: What is it?
–34th St & 5th Ave
Overheard by: Just wanted to go to Wendy's
Tourist #1: We have to go north.
Tourist #2: Well, if north is up, then I think we should keep walking this way.
–32nd St & Broadway
Overheard by: Yousef
Female overweight Southern tourist #1, looking at city map: Oh my gosh! Look at how far we've walked today!
Female overweight Southern tourist #2: Yeah! We are, like, sooooo in shape!
–57th & 10th
Tourist mother: Wait, do they call it ground zero because it's on zero street?
Tourist son: I'm pretty sure that's not why, mom.
Tourist mother: Well, then what's the address?
–E Train
Overheard by: Andrew Larsen
Tourist girls: Where is Soho?
Ice cream stand guy: This is Soho.
Tourist girls: No, where is Soho?
–Broome & Wooster
Tourist dude #1: You know, New York is exactly like Miami, only Miami is nicer.
Tourist dude #2: I don't know, dude…
Tourist dude #1: And there isn't much to do here!
–44th St & 8th Ave
Black man in Batman suit trying to get tourists to pay to take pictures with him: I got bills! I got bills!
–Times Square
Overheard by: kpan
Traffic cop, motioning in vain for car to stop: I guess my powers aren't working today…
–Citifield, 7 Train Entrance
Teenage girl: I love my physics teacher. He's like a fat, middle-aged Superman.
–Bard High School, Queens
Overheard by: Sunny
Large man with heavy accent shouting into cell: Please send somebody–I have just been robbed. (pause) I am on the corner. (pause) What do you mean, "white"? He is a Spiderman! He's wearing a Spiderman suit!
–Stanton & Essex
Grizzly-faced tourist: Yeah, you see those trees over there?
Companion: Yeah.
Grizzly-faced tourist: Those were here when New York was invented by Ed Koch.
–Central Park West & 72nd St
