Violence

Guy on cell: Get the hell out of here! I just can’t believe that someone would go to a baptism just to start a fight.

–65th & 1st

Woman walking alone in a wedding dress and veil, on cell: Yeah, I got kicked out.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: yum

Man #1, annoyed at being pushed: You don't have to push!
Man #2: Well, it was really crowded.
Woman: Welcome to New York!
Man #1, to woman: Your mother!
Woman: That's mature! What are you, in the 5th grade? Grow up, jerk-off!
Man #1: Suck my dick!
Woman: You don't got one, honey!

–F Train

Overheard by: Alliem

Pissed dude on train: You know, it'd be a lot harder for people to hold the doors if they were razor sharp.
Friend: That's not funny.
Pissed dude: I'm just saying people might hold the doors less if were going to lose a limb every time.

–F Train

Normal guy: So, you know this guy was unarmed…
Crazy beard guy: Sure.
Normal guy: Well, needless to say, people died that night. That’s all I’m sayin’.

–12th & 1st

Overheard by: Heather

Guy: Here’s to 5 inches or less!
Girl: …I really could take that the wrong way.
Guy: I’m talking about the storm!

–Whiskey River, 2nd Avenue

Girl: Yo, so I heard that this guy fell into a hole and was covered with molten steel and died. What a terrible way to die.
Guy: Eh, not so bad.
Girl: Well, what’s worse?
Guy: There was that guy in Germany who cut off this other guy’s penis and then ate it.
Girl: He died?
Guy: Yeah, a man dies when his dick is cut off.

–4 train

Dad: My Bloody Valentine in 3-d…violence and naked women.
Nine-year-old son: Yeah, that's the only reason you want to see that movie.

–Kafuman Studio Movie Theater, Astoria

Businessman: He needs a good beating. He’s starting to lose his mind.

–Midtown office

White guy #1: Whoa, so you're gonna fight me?
White guy #2: I think I'm gonna fight you… And maybe that tree.

–Steinway St & Broadway

Overheard by: One scary looking tree

Jamaican: She was crazy, mon! She went right up to him and scratched out his mothafuckin’ eyes, mon. Just scratched them right out.
Cop: No way. Really?
Jamaican: That’s what I’m saying, mon! Dude didn’t have no more eyes, mon! His mothafuckin’ eyes was gone! He be walking around blind and shit!
Cop: Wow.

–44th & Madison

Overheard by: Doll