One-liners

Man on cell: I love you baby, but I just can’t be looking at your face everyday like that.

–Union Square

Guy to friend: She had that ugly-ass quality about her.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Sarah

Black guy to his dad: You have to help me. My cock is turning into one of those fucking curly fries.

–71st & Continental

Woman: So I told him, if that’s the urethra you got the wrong hole.

–115th & Broadway

Very old homeless woman to sleeping homeless man: You don’t even know how good looking you are!

–28th & 3rd

Overheard by: juju

Little boy: I want your DNA.

–Metro-North train

Overheard by: Helen V.

Ghetto teen: If Jesus was with you, he’d smack you over the head and call you a dick!

–A train

Overheard by: Josh Jasper

Girl to friends: Do either of you have a really nice picture of Jesus? I need to make an ashtray.

–7th & A

Overheard by: Ty!

Guy: I mean, why spend my money to put up bail when she’s just going to wind up doing time anyway?

–B train

Overheard by: Dianora

Chick on cell: The thing is, he doesn’t freeze meat. Yeah, it’s an issue.

–22nd & 8th

Overheard by: Sebastian White

Girl on cell: It’s Fleet Week here, so I’m getting laid.

–47th & Broadway

Overheard by: Rachel

Girl to sailor: Well, without your hat you’re fucking ugly!

–MacDougal & Bleeker

Borderline-crying woman on cell: No I don’t want to go to a fucking bar, I want to be with you, you asshole!

–Penn Station

Overheard by: gladly single

Ballsy dame: Well, that’s one thing men are good for — playing the minor roles in Evita.

–Marie’s Crisis piano bar, Grove & Bleeker

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Queer to his friend after hearing raucous cheering coming out of a bar: Straight people are tiresome, yet amusing at the same time.

–46th & 9th

Teen girl smelling a candle: Smells like lesbian.

–5 train

Overheard by: Nolan’s Lover

Well-dressed woman to well-dressed man: It’s not my ears, it’s your ass.

–3rd Ave between 11th & 12th

Overheard by: Heather DuCharme

Black guy to white girl: Hey, Slim Goodie! I wanna take you home and fatten you up right now! Some KFC, that’s all you need to juice that ass up.

–14th & 6th

Overheard by: Sarah Bitchards

Girl to friend: Girl, you know you got a hobbit ass

–Steps outside the Met

Overheard by: Dawn Duffey

Little boy to his mother: Mommy, remember the last time you made a mistake?

–Manhattan-bound A train

Boy with ice cream: Does the five-second rule apply to sidewalks?

–92nd & Madison

Little boy to duck: Uh, what the fuck, dude?

–Harlem Meer, Central Park

Overheard by: robin b