Newspaper hawker: Close your umbrellas, people! You’re inside! You’re going to poke somebody’s eye out! Then they gonna sue you! Then you gonna be broke! Then you gonna throw yourself down the escalator!
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Brawd
Black guy on cell: Niggas with no money are contagious!
–7 train platform, 74th & Broadway
Overheard by: Robyn Z
Flight attendant: Welcome to New York where the local time is 4:37. We know that you have a choice in selecting your air travel, and on behalf of the pilot and the crew I’d like to thank you for choosing our bankrupt airline.
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: Ldartjoy
Man on cell: There’s nothing worse than a poor snob.
–115th & Broadway, outside Columbia University
Hobo: Don’t anyone wanna donate to the broke-ass foundation?
–Houston St
Overheard by: Has been helped by that organization