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Elderly man with eyes bulging: They fried up the Pope in a side of vinegar!
Girl: Yeah, they do that sometimes.

–Henry St & Pineapple Walk

Boy: How naked are we getting at this party?
Girl: Honey, I don't even need tequila to take my clothes off.

–Student Musical, Columbia

Five-year-old boy: I Superman! I Superman.
Six-year-old girl: Who cares!
Five-year-old boy: I Superman! I Superman!

–Flatbush & Atlantic, Brooklyn

Tourist dad: Look, Alexander Hamilton.
Tourist son: He was young.
Tourist dad: Yeah, wonder what he died of?

–Rector St, by Trinity Graveyard

Overheard by: DTA Officer

College girl, to mumbling Persians: What language are you speaking? I’m just curious…
Persian college student: Well, that was English…

–Elevator, NYU Dorm

(a soprano is singing an opera aria in her apartment on the 4th floor)
Random man on street (screaming up to the window): Girl, you're not even gonna sing the high note?! Pussy!
Soprano (screaming out the window): Everyone's a fucking critic!

–Inwood

Cashier: And how are you today?
Girl with arm in sling, brightly: Hopped up on prescription painkillers. And yourself?

–Barnes & Noble, 7th Ave, Park Slope

Thug #1: Aw, damn! Look who just got out of jail!
Thug #2: Wassup? Wassup?
Thug #1: How you feel?
Thug #2: Free as a bird, just like it says on my MySpace.

–Starbucks, Park Slope

Teen dude: So you wouldn’t?
Teen girl: Hell no! I’d break up with any dude who’d had his cock torn off and reconstructed using part of his thigh! That shit ain’t natural.
Teen dude: That’s so shallow.

–Union Square

Woman #1: I’m getting my breasts done again next week.
Woman #2: Oh, really?
Woman #1: Yeah, I’m going to go with silicone this time… It’s so natural.
Woman #2: Oh, I know what you mean…

–Restroom, 53rd & 3rd

Overheard by: in the stall