Tourist guy: Excuse me, do you know how to get to the PATH train?
Hasidic man: Are you Jewish?
Tourist guy: No.
Hasidic man: Ask the policeman.
–42nd & 6th
Overheard by: B. McClintock
Tourist guy: Excuse me, do you know how to get to the PATH train?
Hasidic man: Are you Jewish?
Tourist guy: No.
Hasidic man: Ask the policeman.
–42nd & 6th
Overheard by: B. McClintock
Tourist: Wait, so you’re telling me that Jesus is coming back within the next year?
Apocalyptic shaman: Amen brother.
Tourist: And that he’s a black man?
Apocalyptic shaman: Now, why you got to go and be a wise-ass cracka about it?
–34th & 7th
Overheard by: Meghan
Tourist dad: Oh my god, why does it say Grand Central? Guys, get off the train! Why is it Grand Central?
Chick: If you’re trying to go to Times Square just wait on that platform.
Tourist dad: No, we’re trying to go to Grand Central Station.
Chick: Um, well, you’re here.
Tourist dad: Grand Central Terminal? How is it Grand Central?
–7 train
Tourist with map: I don’t get it. What’s the difference between the dot stations and the circle stations?
Eccentric New Yorker: Oh, I have no idea. I travel by process of elimination. I get out at a station and see where I am until I get to the right place. I’ve been everywhere. Sheepshead Bay, Kew Gardens…
–Q train
Overheard by: A White Bear
Photographer: Where are you from?
Tourist: Holland.
Photographer: Oh…so you are used to seeing boobs. But here…it's a big deal.
–Bryant Park
Overheard by: dirty mike
Teenage tourist, pointing: Mom, look! It’s Daryl Hannah!
Mom: Honey, that’s not Daryl Hannah. That’s one of those transgender people.
–Downtown 6 train, 77th St
Overheard by: Anne
Headline by: pontiac
Runners-Up:
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“As I Always Say, ‘If You Can’t Tell, It Doesn’t Matter.'” – Dave
· “Must Be Nicolette Sheridan’s Day Off.” – seamus
· “Not to Mention She’s still Tied to a Walnut Tree in LA” – Liz!
· “Perhaps the Blade Runner Left an Angry Inch” – megs
· “So That’s Where She Went.” – Eamon Stimson
· “Technically, They’re Both Right” – Wes Mantooth
· “Tom Hanks Thought It Was a Fish Tail.” -peter
· “Who Says ‘Ambiguous’ Isn’t a Classic Look?” –
Dame Droiture
Hobo: Hey, can a po’ man get some money?
Tourist girls: No, sorry.
Hobo: Fine! None of y’all look like Farrah Fawcett anyways.
–L train
Tourist guy: You’re from North Carolina. You’ve got that Southern charm thing going on with the, ‘Hey, y’all!’
Tourist chick: Yeah, I’m real damn charming.
–TKTS line
Overheard by: Jess McGins
Tourist: Could you give us directions to Olive Garden?
NYer: No, but I could give you directions to an actual Italian restaurant.
–23th & 5th
Tourist man: Honey, there’s something stuck on your pants…Honey, it’s toilet paper!
Tourist woman: But, it can’t be; I haven’t gone to the bathroom in hours.
–43rd & 7th
