You can always count on Overheard In New York to portray us brown folks in a negative and vulgar light. (Just like everybody else that the eavesdropping, Big Apple-based dialogue aggregator labels with catch-all titles like “JAP,” “Yuppie,” and...

Weeks ago we came across the following catcall from Overheard In New York, and didn’t find it funny nor worth publishing. But, in light of a recent event fucking the fashion magazine world, we figured it now merits mention:...

After indulging us last week with a double- whammy of Latino dialogue, Overheard In New York seems to have taken that whole ‘spicy’ thing seriously. (Overcompensating much?) This round’s submissions are all about cleansing; the first one concerns itself...

About a month has gone by since we did a post referencing Overheard In New York, the website that’s published verbal faux pas’ from everyday conversations in and around the Big Apple since 2000. Part of the reason for...

Whether it reveals the general population’s confusion over Blatinos or hard-to-nickname Asian Latinos, the website that records faux pas’ from everyday conversations in and around New York has entertained us with at least two worthy moments in ethnic ambiguity....

From the unintentional sociological study known as Overheard in New York, the following dialogue between two Asian girls in Queens made us laugh for a bevy of reasons, their obvious disgust at ethnic ambiguity being only one of them:...

Check out this recent gem of a dialogue overheard on the A Train in New York by José [ed. note: it looks cooler than ‘Joe’] . A quick and painless chuckle ensues: Girl #1: Is she sort of South...