Washington Square Park

Guy #1: All the hipsters in your neighborhood make me want to puke.
Guy #2: I wouldn’t say that too loud, but yeah, I share your sentiment.
Guy #1: What are they going to do? Cough angrily at me?

–St. Marks Place

Overheard by: Lemon

Crazy man: Why do blondes only hang out with other blondes? Why do blondes only hang out with other blonds? Why do blonds only hang out with other blonds?
Chick: Shut up.
Crazy man: Hey Blondie, I wasn’t asking you.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Thompson Patton

Guy #1: So we’re entering the West Village.
Guy #2: Oh yeah?
Guy #1: Yeah…it’s sort of…the gay part of town.
Guy #2: Yeah? So…is there, like…a gay bar in the area we could go to?

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: kjd

Dogwalking woman: No! Come here! I said no! Stay!
Guy: Dude, take off your earphones.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Thompson Patton

Dude: Look at those people there on the bench?
Chick: Which ones?
Dude: Those six people, all sitting there, all talking and animated and engaged with each other, each a representative of a different family of hair color. We totally just walked through their sitcom and we didn’t even know it.

–Washington Square Park

Bouncing Souls guy: Hey, I’d really like to meet Debbie Harry! Debbie, if you can hear this–
Chick: As do we all want to meet Debbie!

–Save CBGBs, Washington Square Park

Overheard by: liz goldstein

Girl: Yesterday I weeded my terrace.
Boy: What?
Girl: I weeded my terrace.
Boy: Oh, I thought you said, “I needed my terrorist.”

–Washington Square Park

Chick: …so she was sleeping with the animals.
Guy: She was sleeping with the animals?
Chick: ’cause she wasn’t really part of the circus.

–Washington Square SW

Drunk hobo: Excuse me, sir, do you have Michael Jackson’s phone number?

–Central Park

Overheard by: alec

Girl on cell: Like, how many miles are in a square mile?

–Central Park

Overheard by: Glynnis

Guy on cell: No. You don’t understand. These girls are hungry. Tofu is not going to fucking do it.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Hambone Bootblack

Jogger lady: Oh, great, it’s raining. Thanks a lot, God.

–Central Park

Overheard by: mj

Man: That guy’s got a chicken. He’s gonna burn it! Hey man, don’t hurt the animals! He’s gonna burn the chicken!

–Tompkins Square Park

Overheard by: Alex Romanovich

Man: Yo, what are you selling?
Vendor: Gelato.
Man: What’s that?
Vendor: Read the sign…Fuck you.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Chris