Overheard Uptown..
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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
via Overheard in New York, Jul 4, 2007
There goes the neighbourhood, was my fav
Posted by
Crankyputz |
July 6, 2007 at 10:38 AM
One of my favorites goes something like this:
Conductor: This is the train going west. Repeat going west, away from Queens.
Doors open, everyone gets off, doors close
Conductor: This is the train going East. Repeat East to Queens
Posted by
The OE |
July 12, 2007 at 8:55 PM