Wednesday One-liners Move to the Big Apple
Girl on cell: No, no, I'm not anywhere near there...No, I'm in Manhattan City, visiting a school.
--NYU Bookstore, Washington Place
Overheard by: Meghan
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Woman: Yeah, I hate Brooklyn. I'd never date a man from Brooklyn; he'd steal all my stuff.
--M60 bus
Overheard by: Abby
Teen girl: Damn, it's like ten degrees warmer in the Bronx.
--Astoria
Tourist guy: So is this Long Island?
--34th & Broadway
Overheard by: Marc Baizman
Tourist man: This building is going to be really tall by the time I get done with it.
--Empire State Building
Overheard by: David Weinberger
Guy: You know why they call this Ground Zero? 'Cause there ain't nothing here.
--WTC PATH station
Overheard by: some white chick
Guy: Oh, you should hire that guy in Times Square. The cowboy guy? Who's naked? You know who I'm talking about?
--Elevator, 42nd & 5th
Girl on cell: I don't know, somewhere on 7th. There are models everywhere, and I want to fucking kill myself.
--24th & 7th
Chick: I'm like the Chrysler Building; I'm so underrated! But I'm
not like the Empire State Building. I don't want you
in me, I just want you to look at me from afar.
--Brother Jimmy's, 77th & 2nd
Overheard by: Susie Lalonde
Lady: I mean,
how many times can you watch a line of women lifting their legs at the same time?
--51st & 6th
Little boy: Okay, I can see outside, Mom...Game Boy is better than outside.
--F train
Overheard by: soho sleepwalker
Tourist woman: There's another one of those doo-wanna ree-dahs. I see them everywhere.
--94th & Broadway
Guy: Fuck that shit, man. I still love New York better. Every single time people from Frisco compare cities with New York, you fools bring up your stupid burritos! Well I got news for you: our burritos are catching up.
--2nd Avenue & 5th Street
Overheard by: DeathGrip
Little girl: I thought you said New York was crappy. This isn't crappy, I think it's quite beautiful.
--Central Park
Overheard by: Rych
Tourist lady: Excuse me, sir. This train goes through Brooklyn? Are we going to get mugged? Will we get stabbed? Will there be people around when we get off the train?
--Q train
Girl: So I said, "You've never been to Roosevelt Island? Well,
you obviously suck at life!"
--F train
Overheard by: hannah g
Chick: No, I didn't find the Pope...Well, you're not going to find the Pope in Chinatown, let me tell you what.
--La Mela Ristorante, Mulberry Street
Overheard by: sara
Chick: So I told him we were thinking of moving here and he was all like, "Yeah, and you're gonna have to sell your
uterus to get in!"
--Park Slope
Girl: You know what gets on my nerves? These fucking cobblestones.
--13th Street & 9th Avenue
Overheard by: ray dan