Soho

Bimbo: So are you ever going to move back to Europe?
Eurotrash: I was thinking about that a couple of times when I was really, really depressed in LA. American culture is such a product of the country.

–Soho

Lady Patron: It’s freezing outside.
Man behind counter: Let’s move to Florida!
Lady Patron: No, thank you.

–Coffee Shop, Hudson & King Street

Girl with headphones: Olivia? She’s a whore!…and she’s the most important person at school.

–Grand St. & West Broadway

Overheard by: John Kuramoto

Old Southern Man: …so I said, if yer stoopid, you shouldn’t try and show it; you should try and hide it.

–Soho

NYU Guy: I didn’t wear my moccasins today, Arthur, and I’m still freezing!

–W. 13th St.

Overheard by: Dan Winckler

Catholic schoolgirls coming out of subway station, in unison: All those nuns care about is fucking us!

–Canal & Varick

Girl on phone, mocking tone: Oh, he's at church, huh? I don't know why he goes to church, he's going to hell anyway, ain't no room for a Blood in heaven!

–BedStuy

Woman: I wanted to raise them Quaker; I just never got around to it.

–The Village

Overheard by: Aaron

Old lady: Well, she's a bitch to say she's religious!

–Madison Ave

Guy in limo: I love your city!
Guy on street: I love your city!
Guy in limo: I love your city!
Guy on street: I love your city, where you from?
Guy in limo: I'm Norwegian.
Guy on street: Norwegia!

–Bleecker & LaGuardia

Overheard by: Josh

Young man #1: How much is this burger?
Young man #2: $25.
Young man #1: Okay. I would pay $25 for an aged burger, but not one cent more.

–DBGB Kitchen and Bar

Overheard by: Jakeycakes

Guy: …and then I'd be a cyborg.

–Soho

Overheard by: Nicole Q

Man on cell: But wouldn't that make you a vampire?

–45th St

Crazy guy, returning after briefly exiting car: I tried to make it to the end of the train, but I was blocked by a teenage werewolf. I have encountered them before, but never outside Brooklyn.

–6 Train

Overheard by: Canucking Futs

Guy on phone: In your next life, you're gonna come back as a vampire.

–Williamsburg

Dude, marveling to another on train: Damn, son, you look like Godzilla with a fade.

–Q Train

Hipster waiter: The fucking gnome took my remote control. The one thing in the world that I love. I told him, "you can take anything except the remote control." And sure enough, he took the fucking remote control.

–Restaurant, Williamsburg

Girl on cell, looking up: I don't know, nigga! I'm standin' in fronna some ancient castle or some shit.

–Wall St & William St

Southern guy on cell: No, seriously, there's shade on the side of the streets here! (pause) No… No, I know. (pause) I'm sitting on a bench, outside, in the shade!

–Central Park

Locationally-challenged woman on cell: I'm on the street, kinda near Blockbuster?

–Blockbuster, Broadway & 9th

Girl on cell: I'm not sure where I am, everything is Asian.

–Bakery, Chinatown

Middle-aged woman on cell: We're in Soho, and he has a three-legged dog.

–Bowery & Spring

Overheard by: Kaze

College guy: I have 100 maps in my bag.
Friend: Why?
College guy: I found a treasure map… For treasure maps.

–Spring St & Crosby

Overheard by: Sean Curry