Hobo: Hey dude, got a drink?
Guy: No, man. If I gave you a drink I’d be enabling you. You know what that is? I’ll be helping you by not getting you a drink.
Hobo: You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.
–St. Marks & 1st
Overheard by: Jasmine Moy
Hobo: Hey dude, got a drink?
Guy: No, man. If I gave you a drink I’d be enabling you. You know what that is? I’ll be helping you by not getting you a drink.
Hobo: You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.
–St. Marks & 1st
Overheard by: Jasmine Moy
Drunk girl: Can you tell me where 3rd and 12th is?
Guy: You’re standing on it.
Drunk girl: Do you know where Bar None is?
Guy: Right under that huge Bar None sign.
–3rd Avenue between 12th & 13th
Overheard by: kristcollekt
Black teen boy #1: What the hell is this?
Black teen boy #2: What are you, stupid? This is what they call
misinterpretive dancing.
–Union Square
Black guy: Man, nigga, you’re really dirty. I mean, you’re a slob, nigga. You’re…you’re a fucking Mexican.
–Union Square
Tween girl: Are there two Union Squares?
–Union Square West
Overheard by: jessica castro
Drunk guy: I lost my voice last night; I haven’t lost my voice since high school.
Sober guy: Only little bitches lose their voice.
Drunk guy: True.
–1st Avenue between 3rd & 4th
Ghetto guy: Dat movie was da bomb.
Ghetto hoochie: Yeah guy, 10 thumbs up!
–City Cinemas Village East, 2nd Avenue
Overheard by: Faceman
Guy: We could go to Coyote Ugly.
Girl: Or Cheap Shots!
Guy: Ugh.
Girl: Boo-yah! I bet that’s the only place down here I could yell “boo-yah” and people would yell it with me. With sincerity.
–1st Avenue & 9th Street
Girl: Oh, so he’s a total stoner?
Guy: Yeah, he only does coke when you shove it up his nose.
–14th & 1st
Guy: Yo…you are a walking Katrina.
Girl: What?
Guy: You’re a walking disaster area.
Girl: Whoa…too early…
–13th between A and B
Overheard by: Leah Beirne