40 Hilarious Conversations That People Overheard In New York And Decided They’re Too Good Not To Share (New Pics)
Jesse Margolis, the man behind Overheard LA, started the Instagram account on a whim in 2015, after listening to a stereotypically L.A. conversation at a health food store. It now has 1.6 million followers and numerous spinoffs, including Overheard London and Overheard New York. This time, we'll focus on the latter.
"We're curating user-generated content, but we're also directing it toward millennial themes," Margolis told The New York Times. "The reason the accounts are successful is because we're not just posting some dumb quote — we're focusing on these themes of dating and digital life and food and fitness and Instagram culture and all that stuff. So we definitely do our best."
And that definitely shows. While scrolling through these snippets, you get a feeling that you're not just eavesdropping on a random conversation. Rather, immersing yourself in a unique environment and getting to know the people living there; their wants and desires, insecurities and fears. So continue scrolling and let's take a walk in the streets of NYC.
More info: Instagram | OverheardLA.com
This post may include affiliate links.
It's important to teach kids that people can wear whatever they want.
Unless it looks like this: ugly-shoes...1-jpeg.jpg
EVERYthing apparently is, to someone. People are fvcking crazy. Or entitled to a psychotic degree.
Load More Replies...There are many dogs in my apartment building. I always say hello to them in the halls or elevators... but never to the dog owners. :)
I'm so old, I remember when the G train was a ghost train that was always empty. (Also, that it used to be the GG train).
The Overheard project has come a long way since its humble beginnings. High follower numbers aside, Margolis is steering the brand in a new direction too. With a printed "newspaper" called The Overheard Post, which has seen features such as the "millennial weather report" and satirical "obituaries".
"We've got these ... accounts now with cities and themes, and we're kind of exploring how that brand manifests itself in different areas," Margolis explained.
"The newspaper idea is our first foray — it's half a marketing stunt. We're essentially going to be doing a newsletter. My idea for our newsletter is it's offline only, and then if you want to actually read it online, you might be able to get it 24 hours later or a week later."
Yes, the "dude" mare a comment about vaccines that isn't overly logical
Load More Replies...The good old days when people got to know who they are dating first .
His comment was irrational gibberish, and the man responded with the same.
Load More Replies...especially since they were working on the vaccine before the pandemic began
True.... true, but at the same time, it sounds like this specific woman would tell people "I'm constantly harassed by men", when in fact she is likely just occasionally harassed.
Load More Replies...Had a guy follow me out to my car and ask me if I could pull down my mask, so he could see my beautiful face. Men make up all kinds of excuses to talk to women. I have been asked the time as a segue to creepy conversations so many times. This isn't funny to me. It is completely oblivious to how often women are harassed.
(Lets his hands fly past his face as he snaps) I'm just fierce like that! 😁
Margolis said the account that started it all, Overheard LA, plays to the more absurd elements of the city, but interestingly enough, it captures the sort of extremes that his team have all seen a little bit living in L.A.
"We're trying to make fun of the bubble and occasionally we can get caught in the bubble ourselves by doing that, and not necessarily showing just how unique and diverse L.A. has become. I wish the whole of L.A. was reflected more in the account."
I see the gentrifier had his papers, so he could be identified so readily.
A gentrifier is "A middle-class person who moves into a disinvested neighborhood when a critical mass of other middle-class people do the same, exerting economic, political, and social pressures upon the existing community," according to the book "Gentrifier."
Load More Replies...My brain is off this morning. I looked at the word apt for like 3 minutes trying to figure out what it was an acronym for
Load More Replies...I was born in a town of 10,000 people where 9,999 talked about the other one.
average bagel with lox and cream cheese in NYC, at least where I live is $6-7, bagel with just cream cheese in about $3. I mean lox is expensive, but where it is $18
I paid about $15 last time I stayed in Lower Manhattan near WTC.
Load More Replies...In my own opinion, some meat products should cost more for environmental reasons, but I haven't completely thought it through either lol
What he thinks he has learned from his time on the project is "how clearly we are now living in two worlds: the real world, IRL. And this 'Black Mirror' thing."
What makes him laugh about the newspaper is that he's old enough to remember when everyone was offline scrambling to establish a presence on the internet and now the phenomenon has gone full circle and publishers are trying to establish their presence offline.
"Butbutbut it was a HYDROFLASK, not a bottle! And I had a BOOK!!1!" Lol
My grandpa said: "2 years ago, I masked fart by coughing. Now, when I cough, I have to fart really loudly to mask it." And I think, this is hilarious :D
My husband had a coughing fit, mask on in the grocery store and he said people scattered!
Load More Replies...I choked on my water on an airplane recently and thought I was going to be murdered.
Literally me, I’ll cough in a store and just think to myself “I’m so sorry, I’m not sick, just incompetent and I choked on my own spit”
"Do you like apples? How do you like them apples?"
Load More Replies...Here in the land of Disney, we have visitors from all over the world. I have overheard people being condescending to a "foreigner" only to be burned by someone who speaks better English than they do.
Because they actually study the language. Americans can be kinda gross. I'm born here.
Load More Replies...Once knew a guy named Tim, who had a Brooklyn accent. He was full-blooded Chinese and loved to refer to himself as a "banana". (Stay your vengeful hand, kids-- he said it, I never did!)
Why is is it that in the USA people do not pay their waiters aND staff? Would it HURT??? It sound do horriblY 3rd (or 4th or 5th) World! Pay you bloody workers!!
Assuming anyone different is automatically a "foreigner" is the basest form of ignorance.
Unlike on the London post lol, where it was "You look ridiculous, move". Ah, people.
No patience for vanity, good. Always funny for the people inside the building looking out through the one way glass
Load More Replies...I always speak up if someone is rocking a particular look. Unsolicited compliments or random acts of kindness can absolutely make someone's day. If nothing else, it helps to prove that not all Americans are self centered anti vaxxing Trump supporters.
I don't understand why a person looking at themselves in a window is either insecure or vain. Maybe they realized they've just eaten spinach and they fear it's stuck between their teeth. Or they've just tripped and fallen and they are fixing their clothes or hair. Is it insecure or vain not wanting to stroll around with a green tooth or with your skirt stuck in your pantyhose?
*gets paid $40* *returns with this* MSCOperacp...4b2f2c.jpg
Buggrit, buggrem, millennium hand and shrimp!
Load More Replies...I wonder how much he'd have paid if the guy had a banjo and an accordion.
Although it could be argued that Grace and Frankie themselves became really close as a result, not quite so much each of them re: their ex-husbands.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of when I told my toxic mom that I hoped my 9 weeks old fetus was gay. I lost the baby. She ignored me for weeks. I'm pretty sure she prayed my infertility into existence.
I am so sorry for you, my friend. Both for the mom and for losing the baby; that's such a terrible thing to endure.
Load More Replies...I used to really want a gay best friend but then I realised that I am the gay best friend
Sad that you'd need to be divorced from a gay man to have your husband be your best friend. I married mine.
So, a Maltese who had recently given birth was walking a Great Dane? I ❤️ New York!
I walked my dog on a regular route. Bumped into a woman who asked if I had a new dog. No I said. But, she said, you had a Bichon last week and have a Poodle this week? My Bichon/Poodle had been groomed. 😊
People kept saying "Your puppy isn't growing much" my reply "She's a rescue and she's 10 years old". They bought puppies. I rehomed preloved pets
This entry was funny, but your comment made it hilarious!!!!!
Load More Replies...Even funnier if he had just left, and taken everyone else she hadn't invited.
Load More Replies..."Do you know how to mix your own cocktails, Princess? Didn't think so. Happy birthday and take a damn seat."
But think of the doctors! As you said, they need them even though they do not stop viruses....oh, nevermind. Just leave them to those who need protection from dust.
On a similar note, I'm amazed how many people have now accepted the disinformation that the CDC originally said masks don't work. The original guidance was that they didn't know how effective non-N95 masks were and that the N95s were needed for medical personnel, so we should only mask if we had Covid or were caring for someone with Covid, not that we shouldn't wear masks at all. The fact that they told us to mask up if we were dealing with Covid was a clear message that masks are protective.
Load More Replies...I'm doubting the construction worker was wearing a surgical mask. It was probably an N95 with a valve that makes it easier to exhale. Those aren't used in a medical setting. And a properly fitted N95 without the valve does stop viruses. The surgical masks and cloth masks people have been using aren't great for protecting the user from inhaling virus but are pretty good at diminishing the amount of exhaled virus they may have from reaching others.
A load of us were clearing up a load of straw after a production this morning. Dust was flying everywhere. It's funny how long it took us to realise that we all had these things in our pockets called masks that once upon a time were to stop dust going up your nose.
anti-masker at a construction site, eh... perfect opportunity to inform them how dust is everywhere and you'll get cancer if you don't wear a mask to avoid breathing it in in public. they believe in anti-masking, they'll believe almost anything
You didn't read the post that said that you do not apply anything on burns?
Load More Replies...It reminds me of the parking guy outside Bristol Zoo in England. Everybody liked him he was always very friendly. One day he didn't turn up for work. The zoo phoned the council and the council said we thought he worked for you he doesn't work for us. Turns out he had put the parking meters in himself and had now gone to live somewhere in the sun with a couple million pounds. I wonder if there's anywhere I can install a parking meter.
Yeah, I'm an adjunct professor in Jersey and the Bronx. (I live in Brooklyn.) I'm pretty sure the bridges I cross going to/from work make more money than I do!
I'm going to intern in January and I'll be making 0,00 dollar an hour :')
*sigh* Yep, in some body parts more quickly than others :p
Load More Replies...I had my pic taken at work and the person who took the pic asked if I wanted to see/get it redone and I just said "nope, that's just my face" and they were like "wow, what a healthy attitude" or something like that and in my head I was just like "I know the reshot isn't gonna look any better, hahaha"
Disagree. I lived in LA for 15 years and I had loads of bicoastal friends. I love both places as well. Only reason I never lived in NYC was because the older I got the less I was willing to struggle for the bare minimum.
Load More Replies...It used to be..."Too smart for LA. Too dumb for New York." I lived in LA for 15 years and it was so very true for me.
Other legends have it, they are still at the TOP
Load More Replies...There was once a subway driver here who was probably kicked out by an airline. Every time I sat in the subway, he not only announced the stops, he also explained what there was to see in these places. And in the most f*****g friendly tone in the world! IT IS 6 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING YOU INSANE !! ONE MORE WORD AND I WILL COME IN TO YOU! But that won't go very nicely ... 😈🤬😂
He must be the owner of that dog who got kicked out of the police training for being too friendly.
Load More Replies...lol Nobody from CA says that. People in Kansas are definitely that nice.
Why does everyone hate CA? I'm from Hawaii, so I don't care.... but.... really?
I just hate the way people with backpacks are sooo oblivious to the extra space they take up !Have been walloped by random backpacks so often on planesand buses as idiots turn to chat to the person behind them!
Or... don't wear backpacks on public transport to avoid hitting other passengers.
Or, you do you and apologize if you doing you impinges on other people doing them? Is it really that difficult to say I'm sorry?
Load More Replies...What’s a broken bone? It’s where your body goes all retro and yells “oh snap”
I had mild pneumonia once and that was bad enough. And I swear ever since, I've getting colds way more easily and often.
It's where your lungs give you a small sample of how it is to suffer from Covid-19.
Oh ok why don’t u have her come to ur own place and do the same thing to u?
I've done that to my sister's phone before but not her tv. Definitely going to do this now.
My stepson also. At the start of the pandemic, he walked into a store and coughed. Everyone looked at him in horror. "Calm down f*#kers, I'm a smoker".
Lol my mum has had this exact conversation a few times since COVID (But quitting smoking is going really well for her now!)
Me too, I have severe reflux and Barrett's Esophagus from years of acid scarring and it causes tickles and coughing. If you haven't ever had a upper scope done to check everything out, it might be something to consider.
Load More Replies...Burn the guy! Burn his crocs! BURN THE KIDS!!! They already have this PLAGUE in them!!! 😈😈
Crocs dont get you hit by a truck that cannot stop on a dime. But they do help your feet is you have foot problems.
Not even ...? Here in Germany gas currently costs around € 1.70 per *liter* (USD 7.30 per gallon)
Load More Replies...no you're probably dead because a driver hit you because he didn't have time to see you silently approaching.
Yes, drivers and pedestrians are *never* a55holes. Wait, all humans are, it's not influenced by mode of transportation.
Load More Replies...It really does. Also Nats "See you in a sec/min" and she never did... heartbreaking.
Load More Replies...A family friend of ours died a while back. His funeral was yesterday. Interestingly enough, he and his wife were married longer than my parents have existed. I'll miss him; he was a great man.
Please accept my deepest condolences and please send my deepest condolences to his family.
Load More Replies...I'm not flirting with you, but your comments are always very kind and I'm sure you look beautiful today.
Load More Replies...Or you could just answer the question and not assume every nice person is flirting with you...
with girls, it can sometimes be dangerous to let a man think he's flirting with you, else he might feel 'led on' and feel entitled to something. And it was just an easy way to deter him, other than saying 'I have a boyfriend' or 'I'm lesbian' or the like, which he could still press on with like: 'I can do better than him' or 'I bet I could change that'. especially in a big city.
Load More Replies...I doubt it, have you seen the prices on nice woman shoes? If she was willing to pay $300 for headphones I bet she's dropping at least $1,000 on shoes
Load More Replies...Lol I'm in the south now and I kinda miss the blatant attitudes...the blattitudes
No, she wasn't. Noise-canceling headphones are OBVIOUS. He was a twat for trying to interject himself into her life when she was clearly not interested
Load More Replies...Dementors? If say death eaters. IIRC dementors are what's they are, no choice. Death eaters are the a**hats.
Load More Replies...AstraZenica is Slytherin, right?? Which one is Gryffindor? Ravenclaw?
haha according to the commenter a while back I'm Ravenclaw. Woohoo
Slitherin because it's better after the third book. (I mean shot)
Load More Replies...Addy to wake up. Ambien to KO. Pharmaceutical sleep cycle
Load More Replies...Double Astra Zeneca with a chaser of Pfizer please, your very good health
Debbie, my mother was 6 months pregnant when she got vaccinated. My baby brother was born 3 months later, he's now 3 months old. He's a perfectly healthy, bouncing baby boy. My mother is thriving as well, as are the 12 other people in my family who got vaccinated(not my immediate family, aunts and uncles and cousins and such. Even my grandfather with lung cancer got vaxxed and is doing well)
Load More Replies...If there is I'm packing my stuff and moving there now
Load More Replies...You heard it here first folks, pregnant women must move and live in the suburbs
Cold brew is coffee invented by hipsters with waaaay to much time on their hands...
Wait a minute! I thought it was just a different name for iced coffee. Are they not same?
Load More Replies...Said the Yoga teacher who charges $50 per hour that only last 45 minutes.
I was going to comment the exact same thing until I saw you had done it.
Load More Replies...something i came up with one day was "time is so sensitive, i could kiss my friend and cause ragnorok"
I believe talking politics in the USA is impossible. Even the politicians can't do it. They swear at each other, they tell lies to each other, the make allegations about each other, but I've never seen an American politician actually talk about politics.
It's frightening how far the quality of political discourse has fallen. As Isaac Asimov said, "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Little did he know how much worse it would get.
Load More Replies...Me: *taking notes for whenever I'd need to launder money, or, just for fun.*
A future spy on the making. Don't break under pressure and black mail and have too much info on the phone to allow to fall under wrong hands.
I doubt the person overhearing this had any way to know how old the really girl is... might have been an unusually youngish-looking teen.
Load More Replies...Smart enough to realize that the father paid for the phone out of his own money and is likely to buy her a new one eventually.
Or confuse the carp out of them by adding coins to adjust the change you get back: $5.12 for a $4.62 purchase.
Load More Replies...Debit is spending money that you have, credit is spending money that you don't have.
Could have been me, didn’t know why they were asking me that when I first came to the us.
Same for me when I moved to Canada. I just paid in cash until I’d figured it out 😄
Load More Replies...Just take "else" out of the sentence and you will sound less douchey! Also : "If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough"
It's not difficult to understand. Credit cards meant that you're using the bank's money and you'll need to repay with interest and you can choose to pay the minimum sum instead. Charge cards meant that you need to repay in full when the payment is due. Debit cards meant your own money in the bank and you're paying using the same tech instead of going to the ATM.
When I worked retail in the early 2000s, some people would freak out when I figured out their change in my head.
Definitely a kid from the upper East side. His name is probably Bodhi and his mother is a vegan
Two posts and lesson learned, you earn more when you sing badly or look like as if you would sing badly.
We don't know if they sang badly. All we know is that the person likes "their" podcast more than listening to the song.
Load More Replies...Working at Trader Joe's doesn't mean that you don't have some basic standards.
You won't even get to know how to launder money illegally because customers won't explain it in the line but also because he's ghosting you.
I can assure you that as a New Yorker, these are very real. They actually chose nice ones 😅 Usually it's a lot more vulgarity
Load More Replies...Anyone who calls a NYer a NYker can't call bullshit.
Load More Replies...Dayum. To care that much about her above all the street sounds????
Load More Replies...Looks like people in New York are obsessed with the word literally
I can assure you that as a New Yorker, these are very real. They actually chose nice ones 😅 Usually it's a lot more vulgarity
Load More Replies...Anyone who calls a NYer a NYker can't call bullshit.
Load More Replies...Dayum. To care that much about her above all the street sounds????
Load More Replies...Looks like people in New York are obsessed with the word literally
