Tourism

20-something male tourist: What's the crowd like here?
20-something male New Yorker: Random cougars.

–Line at Club, Meatpacking District

NYU student: Are they tourists or are they just drunk?

–Bleeker & Thompson

Dude: Hi, I’m looking for the World Trade Center.
Cop: Uhhh, yeah… You need to go to Manhattan.

–Ferry Terminal, Staten Island

Overheard by: Ghost Rock It

Tourist guy: Why do the buildings in New York have water tanks on the
roofs?
Cop guy: I don’t know…maybe they knock it over if the building
goes up in flames.

–Bowery & Delancey

Tourist #1: I can't wait to leave New York.
Tourist #2: It's not for claustrophobes.

–Times Square

Female tourist: Oh, look! American Apparel!
Friend: Is that the only one?

–5th & 19th

Overheard by: nate

Tourist #1: I wonder how they build streets on top of the subways.
Tourist #2: Hmm. You think they're strong enough that they can support the street all by themselves?
Tourist #1, after some thought: Nah, there's gotta be a layer of dirt between them or something.

–42nd & Lexington

Overheard by: Matt

Tourist guy: What’s that building over there?
Tourist chick: That’s the Empire State Building, silly.
Tourist guy: Oh…yeah.

–Empire State Building observation deck

Overheard by: Nicholas West

Tourist woman looking at Radio City Music Hall: That’s where the Rockets are.
20-ish son: Who are the ‘Rockets’?

–50th & 6th

Man: …and then we visited the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid.
Woman: The Great Pyramid is where the people had their apartments, right?

–The Village

Overheard by: Ava