One particularly striking exception remains. It’s a mystery, the stretch of Broome Street between Allen and Eldridge—a quiet little block that smells like high meat and old squeegees. It gets bad in the spring and worse in the summer, when the smell of decay is overpowering.
— New York magazine investigates The Smelliest Block in New York.
Maybe it is a particular combination of wild flora that grow there? Perhaps someone’s nurturing a titan arum in their back yard.
The river here is polluted and sometimes the smell (like seaweed-strewn trash) wafts over this side of town to the point where it seems like you’d be able to taste it. Though it has improved a bit at least this year.
A few towns over is the Kellogg headquarters and production. The whole city smells like hot corn flakes and always makes me think of Lan-Ael without the apples and milk. We have a spice factory downtown and it smells so fantastic even a few blocks away. I love to open the windows when we’re driving by and inhale a big lungful.
Perhaps they need a spice factory in that NY neighborhood. How frustrating for those residents.
LOL! That (cornflakes) makes me think of the year the city ran out of road salt, and the Tone’s Spices factory donated a couple of tons of expired garlic salt to help cover the rest of the winter.
Apparently it was rotting chicken. Yes, a spice factory would help!
Gaggity.
Boxes of processed poultry sitting in the warmth? GAGGITY.
Chicken farms are bad. Hog farms are worse.
I have only been near hog farms a few times — that’s a truly amazing smell, hard to see how people can stand it.