Ear to the Street
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I take a generally pejorative view of money.
-- some hipster douche, at Northeast Kingdom, on May 2008
Do you know how the rooster got out!?
-- a neighbor, at Starr between Knickerbocker and Irving, on June 26, 2008
Selling your art is wrong. It's like prostitution, which is selling your love.
-- some hipster douche, at Northeast Kingdom, on May 2008
He don't know from nothin'
-- Some guy from Menahan Street., at Bleecker St. between Central & Evergreen, on Summer of 1960
so like how much is the apartment n shit?
-- Eager apartment seeker, at Apt open house on Halsey Street, on August 07
he was all flirtating with me.
-- 'round the way girl, at L train - afternoon rush hour, on Oct 07
I wanna work the under-under-side jelly rolls, you know?
-- lady working out , at Lucille Roberts Gym, Myrtle Ave, on June 26, 2008
"I love sluts, sluts, sluts...sluts I do adore"
To the tune of Jay Z's "Girls, Girls, Girls"
-- Neigbhorhood Teen, at Knickerbocker, on June
If you don't stop (whining/crying/sulking) I'm gonna punch you in your fucking face. Watch.
-- Morbidly obese mother to soon to be morbidly obese six-year-old daughter, at B 38 bus before exiting at Knickerbocker, on June 2008
Baby, you can walk me!
-- Some dude, at Wilson and Flushing, on Anytime I pass by with my dog
art is fake.
-- artist/hipster, at outside of the Archive, on during Bushwick Open Studios, june 08
I feel like we should live as close to the train as possible. I really do. Really. Yes
-- hipster kid on his cell phone to roomie, at outside the Jefferson stop, starr exit, on july 2008
I miss my boyfriend.
-- Pregnant teen, at T-shirt, on Central Ave M platform
There's a RACCOON on my block!
-- cute guy on blackberry (perhaps his first sighting?), at covert street, on last monday
so he was fucking me right then.....
-- local chica who started whispering when I walked by her, at halsey and irving bodega, on Today
Be my mommy! (i'm pretty sure he was saying 'be my *mami* but that's not how it initially registered)
-- old man with a cart, at corner of Starr and Knicerbocker, on July 2008
You are very white, but muy bonita.
-- Older man at bar, at Northeast Kingdom, on July 8, 2008
"It's a hipster couch, ugly and uncomfortable!" "Doesn't 'ugly and uncomfortable' sum up hipsters in general?"
-- Two girls flipping through magazine, at Northeast Kingdom, on July 12, 2008
you all lesbians anyway.
-- This scary crazy dude, at Jefferson Street between Wilson and Central, on 8 am on Monday
Little Girl: "You're bein fuckin silly"
Mother: "WHAT did you say"
Little Girl: "You're bein fuckin silly"
-- A little girl to her menstruating mother (i know that because she screamed it to her daughter), at Jefferson St. L Station, on Jefferson St. L Station
"So, um, is it true that if you see an ice cream truck at night, that they're really selling drugs, too?"
-- (white) kid, at Maria Hernandez Park, on July 2008
There's an icy lady on every corner! She's like a payphone!
-- Woman walking down street, at Broadway and Grove, on July 25th 2008
yo suck my dick bitch ,oh let me borrow your phone
-- Two ricans , at myrtle/wyckoff train station , on july 28 2008
We goin' out like that? WE GOIN' OUT LIKE THAT?! All right, all right. I already knew it, tho ...
-- Lady having a polite discussion with her colleague on the train, at Broadway (J Train), on July 30, 2008, 8:15AM
"Bed-Stuy Fly....Bushwick Sick"
-- Fabolous on "Brooklyn", at radios everywhere!, on
