Posted on 10/28/2005 6:52:39 AM PDT by Calpernia
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The calls and emails started coming into the 1010 WINS newsroom late last night and they all wanted to know the same thing - what is that odor hanging over the city?
Most described it as smelling like maple syrup, although at least one person thought it was more like peanuts.
So, what is it? The official answer at this hour is we don't know and neither apparently does anyone else. There's speculation that whatever it is drifted over from New Jersey.
The NYPD, the City Office of Emergency Management, the City Department of Environmental Protection, even the Coast Guard investigated. The air was tested, but nothing sinster was found and the search for the source continues.
One listener who emailed from Cliffside Park, NJ said he's been smelling the same aroma in his neighborhood for the past 14 years, but it seems more pervasive lately. He did not know the source.
Keep it locked in to 1010 WINS for the latest.
I think the report I heard said it was a pleasant smell.
And BTW, there's never any problem anywhere near where I live (half hour west of Manhattan). You need to stop hanging around the oil refineries.
ML/NJ
Well, chemicals are not really weapons of mass destruction. They are more area denial. The fruity smell is a characteristic of a chemical; but we aren't in a closed in area. If you are really concerned, you can read up about chem on my webpage:
http://goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce/chembio.html
I don't hang around oil refineries, I was but an innocent soul trapped on the turnpike. I had no choice at the time. And anyway, it wasn't oil I smelled, it was more like spoiled pork.
Is there no end to the complaining.
I can't understand why anyone would call 1010Wins to report a smell anyway.
Related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1510956/posts
Strong Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan
Pardon me while I clean my screen.
BTW: Hope to "Hit the Hutt" in the "Horseshoe City" by December.
They want the gummint to fix it? Make it go away?
We can easily make it go away by denying Rutt's Hut visits to Coleus :)
::send him the clean up bill::
Thanks for the link
You're welcome.
Cliffside Park ping
You weren't near Secaucus, by any chance, were you?
I often smell a kind of brown-sugar smell on the streets of NY. I wonder if there is a chemical that creates that smell. Like the rotten-egg smell--used to be around 49th and Seventh.
Cindy posted some info about that in 53. See her comments at her link.
There's a characteristic smell of a cadaver when the person has been poisoned by cyanide--almonds, I think. Pat Cornwell uses it in one of her books, and it was Jonas Salk's early claim to fame among his peers: he smelled it on someone brought into the emergency room. From then on, the other doctors would call him over to smell the patients when they came in so they could make the diagnosis.
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