Reasonably clean cut man to another: So he was like, “I dunno what I’m gonna find when I walk in there. It’s either gonna be dead bodies, or two people fucking.” (pause) Turns out it was both…

–49^th & 10^th

Overheard by: Welcome to New Jack City

Short, skinny, strung-out white woman: Dead! Dead! Dead! Yo’ mutha is so fuckin’ dead, you niggaz! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!

–2^nd Ave & St Marks Place

Overheard by: Joe

Eight-year-old girl, walking away angrily: You know what else is good for your health? Not getting killed!

–Sunset Park

Overheard by: She *does* have a point.

Guy: I’m not saying I’d kill you, I’m just saying you’d die.

–10^th St & 3^rd Ave

Overheard by: Shaul

Woman to boyfriend: Oh, Gun Hill Road… That’s where my ex-boyfriend tried to murder me.

–5 Train

Overheard by: Ari

Middle aged man to 20-something man: And when he dies, we can all go out for whale sushi!

–5^th Ave &14^th St