Brooklyn

Girl: Excuse me, do you have any biographies of TuPac?
Library guy: Probably, though they’d be with the other biographies on the second floor.
Dude: But isn’t this the fiction section?
Library guy: It is. You might be able to find some books about him in non-fiction.
Girl: “Non-fiction”?
Library guy: Non-fiction means true.
Dude: …And fiction means false.
Library guy: Sort of.
Girl: So if it’s in non-fiction then that means he must still be alive.
Library guy: I don’t think you understand.

–Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza

Overheard by: Matthew Sahd Mohammed

Cop #1: When I’m fucking a cunt, I like to hurt it. You like to hurt a cunt when you’re fucking it?
Cop #2: Yeah. What do I give a fuck? It ain’t my cunt.

–Police Plaza

Overheard by: Steve Bookocki

Drunk girl: What kind of guys do you like?…What kind of guys do you like? I like guys with big tits.

–2nd Avenue & 11th Street

Overheard by: vegantoast

Guy: Did you see that woman? She looked at us like she’d never seen a black man before.

–NYU College of Dentistry elevator, East 24th Street