Wednesday One-Liners for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone

Conductor: This is your conductor speaking. This station is 125th Street... Welcome to Harlem world.

--2 train

Overheard by: mo love

Geeky white hipster: Some guy would try to mug me and I'd be like, 'Yo, I was born in Harlem!' And he'd be like, 'Damn.'

--Fordham University Ram Van

Woman on cell: Yes, I'm still in Harlem.

--Flushing, Queens

Hipster waitress, after describing dull evening in Harlem: I guess you take your chances, going all the way out in the middle of nowhere like that.

--Hope & Anchor, Red Hook, Brooklyn

Friendly man to lady passerby: Good morning! [She ignores him.] Come on, this is Harlem! In Harlem we say, 'Good morning'!

--145th & Broadway

Young black kid to group of white ladies: There goes the neighborhood!

--116th & Frederick Douglass, Harlem