Tourist Attractions

Recording: This is Brooklyn Bridge…
Girl #1: This don’t look like Brooklyn Bridge
Girl# 2: I know, maybe they’re doing renovations or something.
Lady suit: We’re still in the tunnel.

–downtown 4 Train

Overheard by: Madison Parks

Tourist guy: Excuse me, do you work here?
Uniformed employee: Yes…
Tourist guy: Oh good. Is this Central Park?
Uniformed employee: No, this is Dale and Thomas Popcorn.
Tourist guy: Oh, well the bus guide said this was it. Where is it?
Uniformed employee, pointing north: Just walk that way.
Tourist guy: Well that’s not much help, how the hell am I supposed to find it?
Uniformed employee: Oh trust me, you’ll find it.
Tourist guy: HOW?
Uniformed employee: IT’S A BIG FUCKING PARK!

–Dale and Thomas Popcorn, 48th & Broadway

Promoter guy: Do you guys want to see a comedy show?
Tourist mom: Oh, sorry, we have an opera tonight.
Promoter guy: Oh! Fidelio?
Tourist mom: No, Phantom.

–45th & Broadway

Overheard by: Andy Hobin

Girl #1: So where’s Matt?
Guy #1: I don’t know, is he outside?
Girl #2: I don’t think so…
Matt: Hey everybody! I’m back, I got the dildo!

–Top of the Empire State Building

Overheard by: brian h

Tour chick: Have you been to Ground Zero yet?
Teen girl: You mean the club?

–8th & Broadway

Promoter guy: This your first time at the Empire State Building?
Dude: Yeah, it is.
Promoter guy: Cool. Where are you from?
Dude: Native New Yorker.
Promoter guy: I don’t want to talk to you.

–Empire State Building

Overheard by: Adam Nathan

Suit on cell: Why would I lie to you? When have I ever lied to you? Listen, you and I both know there are “no nice little neighborhoods” in Queens!

–11th Street & 4th Avenue

Overheard by: jayKayEss

Worker guy: We’re going to try to get the line moving quicker. Anyone who is in a group of 2 or more people, have 1 person stand in line and buy tickets. The other members of your group can go to a waiting area and you can meet them there.
Tourist guy: But what if all 3 of us want to go up to the top?

–Empire State Building

Overheard by: Tra

Chick on cell: It’s a long story involving a lot of urine, but the gist of it is, we can’t use that refrigerator ever again.

–Madison Square Garden ladies’ room

Southern woman: Excuse me, sir? We aren’t from around here but could you tell me where Times Square is?
NY Man: Yeah, it’s a bit uptown from here, you’re lookin’ for 125th street. It’ll say Harlem but don’t let it throw you off.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Carl Krickmire

Tourist guy: Excuse me, where is the subway?
NY guy: Sorry, I don’t speak English.

–Rockefeller Center