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08 January 2007

New York Smells Like Gas
post by: dame at: 10:25 | 33 comments
They closed the train that takes me home and my office has closed the intake vents so the smell doesn't get in. I hope they fix it before I have to go home!
posted by dame 08 January | 10:27
Woah. I'm on the West Side just below Houston and I was smelling it this morning. Had no idea what it was.
posted by jonmc 08 January | 10:30
Remember when it smelled like pancakes? That was way better.
posted by dame 08 January | 10:33
Yeah. This just smells like rotten eggs.
posted by jonmc 08 January | 10:34
Could make for some interesting smoke breaks up there.
posted by BoringPostcards 08 January | 10:35
No smell in Union Square.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 January | 10:39
That's because ThePinkSuperhero always brings a sweet smell wherever she goes.

It's because she bathes in antifreeze.
posted by mullacc 08 January | 10:46
She's toxic to pets?
posted by dame 08 January | 10:51
This is interesting to me. One of my duties at work is IAQ and I OFTEN get called out on smells inside schools that I can never trace, or, sometimes, trace to rotten lunches in cubbies, weird indoor plants, etc.

This NYC on seems like my job on a meta scale. Keep me posted. I am ready to fly in on a moment's notice to help out.
posted by danf 08 January | 10:52
I really do wonder what's going on in the industrial zones near Manhattan. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but when the maple smell happened, I thought it was extremely curious and spent some time reading about it and researching similar events in the past. There are a lot of possible explanations, some quite insidious.
posted by Miko 08 January | 11:02
That would be awesome, danf. Especially if it's coming from our cubby.
posted by dame 08 January | 11:03
She's toxic to pets?

You've seen her dog, right? It used to look like this:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by mullacc 08 January | 11:17
Heheheheh.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 January | 11:19
Dear mullacc,

LOL.

Kisses,
D
posted by dame 08 January | 11:19
I was just outside smoking. The odor seems to have departed, down here anyway.
posted by jonmc 08 January | 11:34
Excuse me.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 08 January | 11:48
I knew it.
posted by carmina 08 January | 11:51
I thought I smelled gas this morning on 84th St. But that would be in the wrong hood, I guess. hrm.
posted by gaspode 08 January | 11:53
Miko, that "maple smell" thread is freaky. (I don't even remember hearing about that.)
posted by BoringPostcards 08 January | 11:59
It smelled gas last night actually. In the Morningside Heights area. Nobody gave a damn really. Now, it's oh! oh! the village smells. Well, gas smell in the Village is an improvement, it's all I say.

I keed, I keed. I love the Village. A little.
posted by carmina 08 January | 12:05
I seem to recall that some parts of Downtown Los Angeles used to smell sweet, like baked goods. This smell, of course, came from chemicals being burnt at some of the factories that ring the city.

Hmm, I can't find a news story about it. But anyway, if a neighborhood smells like maple syrup, it's a sure bet that some company is outputting something it shouldn't.
posted by muddgirl 08 January | 12:15
I went into work late on an unrelated manner so I got to see Bloomberg doing his condescending (but rational and calm) lecture about natural gas and why we were not all going to die.

I think we should form a band called "The Mystery Smells" and only go out and play when the latest smell flap hits.
posted by Divine_Wino 08 January | 12:16
In the late 80's it smelled like urine, so maybe this is an improvement. Unless it explodes or something.
posted by doctor_negative 08 January | 12:17
New York's alright... if you like urine smells.
posted by Divine_Wino 08 January | 12:21
If you can smell it, it means you're still alive.
posted by Daniel Charms 08 January | 12:29
Have you been in the Canal Street station? There are many times when urine is an improvement. (Besides, that's how you know when spring is here.)
posted by dame 08 January | 12:31
drat, my panicked mom called from Greece inquiring about the gas smell in NY. *She* thinks it might be terrorists. Oh, great.
posted by carmina 08 January | 12:38
The smell is bringing me back. Down south, we used to have gas parties. Folks'd come over, pop a couple of Ibuprofen and we'd crack the windows and ease open the burners just so. Then everyone'd get a little goofy. Good times. Cheap too. Yee haw.
posted by Hellbient 08 January | 12:45
hellbient, I think you are on to something. I feel unusually euphoric this morning. Yee haw, indeed.
posted by carmina 08 January | 13:18
New York also, presumably, dealt it.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 08 January | 13:47
Yeah, but New Jersey denied it and thus, clearly, supplied it.
posted by Divine_Wino 08 January | 13:49
My Dad just e-mailed me and asked if it was the result of my having Indian food this weekend :-0 Silly Dadoo!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 January | 14:34
It made me go crazy.
posted by dame 08 January | 15:05
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