One-liners

Loud girl: I was like, “That’s totally unfair! You can’t pray that prayer! That’s the story of my life.”

–Outside Delacorte Theater, Central Park

Overheard by: Helen V.

Guy: If I send a guy over with a bag…how much money can you put in it?

–8th & Broadway

Overheard by: tay-no

Carson Kressley, on cell: It was so worth being sober and well-behaved.

–elevator, Avenue of the Americas

Overheard by: SJB

Loud, nerdy guy: They’re basically a bunch of shitty MySpace kids with mutant powers. Like the hedgehog kid: his power is that spikes come out of his body, what the fuck is that? I could roll around in glue and syringes and get that guy’s power.

–Prospect Park

Overheard by: Zoh

Middle-Aged man: I think vampires are kind of stupid. They seem to care an awful lot about how they look and what others think. It’s like, who cares? You’re six hundred years old and on your way to hell, hello?

–5th Ave

Overheard by: Someone who thinks he has a point

Asian girl: One of my cousins is a dragon.

–32nd St

Overheard by: sneakyintern

Shrewd observer: Why does everything in this park look like genitalia?

–Battery Park

Overheard by: Rina

Kid: There’s too many damn theaters on this street.

–Broadway

Overheard by: Monolythagis

Woman on cell: First I had to see all of those girls I know with their perfect boyfriends, reminding me I’m single! Now I’m in the Village, and all these gays guys are out with their hot boyfriends, reminding me I’m single. I can’t take it anymore, Ma!

–Christopher & Bleecker

Woman: You know how the Germans continue to punish the Jews? They date them.

–6th St & 2nd Ave

Conductor: To all the men on the train, Happy Father’s Day. And to all the ladies on the train who wear two hats, Happy Father’s Day to you, too.

–1 train

Overheard by: Eli Feldblum

Hootchie: A-Rod’s so hot. Do you see the lips on him? Jeter’s so hot. Tino was the hottest of them all. Even that Knoblauch was cute, remember him? Hell, I’d sleep with any of the Yankees. But you know, I’d draw the line at Yogi Berra.

–Yankee Stadium