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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

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Red Hair Blue Soul
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5 years ago

Father of the year! Love it!

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    rspanther
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    5 years ago

    Same

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    Shots fired! Thanks wise old man for your wisdom!

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    It is BURN 'o' clock! 🤣

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    Caro Caro
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    5 years ago

    She's going places ;)

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    Caro Caro
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    5 years ago

    We should upvote this, if only for the word dope !

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    the annoying theatre kid
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    5 years ago

    this is so sweet

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    Valisbourne Spiritforge
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    5 years ago

    That's... pretty apt actually.

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    Dave P
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    5 years ago

    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

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    rspanther
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    5 years ago

    Like that's a bad thing.

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    Red Hair Blue Soul
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    5 years ago

    Wicked smaaat!

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    Legen ( wait for it ) dary
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    5 years ago

    What a wonderful random female passersby. 😊

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago (edited)

    Gimme the money or else! 🎸🎵🎵🎵🎸

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    Caro Caro
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    5 years ago

    Haaaahaha this made me laugh so hard. Brilliant !

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    WildHoneyPie
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    5 years ago

    "I know, right? I found this amazing dog food!"

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    Giles McArdell
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    5 years ago

    Frasier and Niles as boys

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    Zozo🤟
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    5 years ago

    This is funny😄

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    Hans
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    5 years ago

    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.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    5 years ago

    Ouch. *applies burn cream*

    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago

    You didn't read the post that said that you do not apply anything on burns?

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    Id row
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    5 years ago (edited)

    I said the same thing about my etsy shop. My husband said prison inmates make more, lol.

    The Shark
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    5 years ago

    You are a valued (and easily-replaceable) employee! 😁

    Caroline Overill
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    4 years ago

    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.

    Lynne Harbison
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    5 years ago

    They didn't work that out BEFORE starting the job??

    Thomas Turnbull
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    4 years ago

    I hope that includes overtime.

    Darla Hitchcock
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    4 years ago

    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!

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago

    *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKy6gNKOm1o plays*

    Yara Balabanova
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    5 years ago

    I'm going to intern in January and I'll be making 0,00 dollar an hour :')

    Mazer
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    5 years ago

    It’s going to take time to recover from that on

    Gabby M
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    5 years ago

    That's remarkably depressing.

    best turtle
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    5 years ago

    oh damn i felt the heat from all the way over here

    SZ
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    5 years ago

    Man that's brutal, and he doesn't even get a bonus ticket if he's a minute over

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    Evil Little Thing
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    5 years ago

    It's true

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    HAPPENS ALL THE F*CKING TIME!!!!

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    James016
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    5 years ago

    Shots fired at self

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    Nadine Debard
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    5 years ago

    Well that's not wrong.

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    Legend has it, they still are at the bottom of this stairs...

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    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 ... 😈🤬😂

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    Deborah B
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    5 years ago

    How about remove your backpack on the subway, like a civilized human being, and don't scream at strangers for mildly inconveniencing you, like another civilized human being?

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    your socially awkward cousin
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    5 years ago

    lungn't

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    それは非常に面白いです! 😂😂😂

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    Red Hair Blue Soul
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    5 years ago

    Ha!!!

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    Burn the guy! Burn his crocs! BURN THE KIDS!!! They already have this PLAGUE in them!!! 😈😈

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    Ekaterina S
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    5 years ago

    Pizza slices?

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    Fiona Morris
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    4 years ago

    no you're probably dead because a driver hit you because he didn't have time to see you silently approaching.

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    Matt
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    5 years ago

    "I am Iron Man..." Still hurts :'(

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    Caro Caro
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    5 years ago

    That's a cute reply !

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    Hans
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    5 years ago

    More expensive than the shoes probably.

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    rspanther
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    5 years ago

    The unvaxed are muggles and antivaxers are dementors.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago

    But they are. And they probably also admire the 24/7 mentality.

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    Ekaterina S
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    5 years ago

    *to Biontech! ;)

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    rspanther
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    5 years ago

    Is there a city that's baby free?

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    Ebony
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    5 years ago

    Moral of the story; stick to what you know

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago

    Said the Yoga teacher who charges $50 per hour that only last 45 minutes.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    5 years ago

    Fair enough.

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    James016
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    5 years ago

    Stay classy

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    Me Oh My
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    5 years ago

    But I wanna know!

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    kath morgan
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    5 years ago

    Sounds like London

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    Legen ( wait for it ) dary
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    5 years ago

    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.

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    rspanther
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    5 years ago

    Freak the cashier out and pay with cash. And not the exact amount.

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    Anapv
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    5 years ago

    Outch...

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    Mari
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    5 years ago

    Hahaha

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    Discordant Bluecheese
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    5 years ago

    It's wise to always come prepared (to drink).

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    Laura Mende (Human)
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    5 years ago

    Next Gen is EVEN MORE nihilist??? How is this possible? 🤣🤣🤣

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    Kona Pake
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    5 years ago

    Damn, my flight was yesterday.

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    Ebony
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    5 years ago

    Oops!

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    Buren
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    5 years ago

    Two posts and lesson learned, you earn more when you sing badly or look like as if you would sing badly.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago

    Working at Trader Joe's doesn't mean that you don't have some basic standards.

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    ADHORTATOR
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    5 years ago

    better first in this village than second in Rome

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    SykesDaMan
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    5 years ago

    Yeah! Being rude is so cool! /S

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    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago

    Who goes to Times Square? It's just billboards.