Posted on 10/28/2005 8:48:38 AM PDT by kinghorse
Strong, Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan Oct 28 10:24 AM US/Eastern Email this story
NEW YORK
New York City has many odors, but when the city began to smell a little too good, New Yorkers became alarmed.
Residents from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Upper West Side nearly 10 miles north called a city hot line to report a strong odor Thursday night that most compared to maple syrup, The New York Times reported Friday.
There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to find the source of the mysterious smell.
Air tests haven't turned up anything harmful, but the source was still a mystery.
"We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman. "What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."
Although many compared the smell to maple syrup, others said it reminded them of vanilla coffee or freshly-baked cake. All seemed to agree that it was a welcome change from the usual city smells.
"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos (waffles). Or pancakes," Arturo Padilla told The Times as he walked in Lower Manhattan. "It's pleasant."
Glad it's nothing serious.
The smell of bitter almond is actually pleasant; no idea what cyanide is like other than reading it is like bitter almond.
The wind is just blowing from the direction of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The origin of MapleMan!
Related thread. 1010wins source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1510878/posts
What's That Smell?
pigeons found an open window at the Pancake House, gorged themselves and then returned back to manhattan
what they smell is pigeon farts
Run Cagey, RUN!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1510956/posts?page=23#23
On crisp fall days in the sixties and seventies the warm, sweet aroma of baking would waft down through the Bronx from the Stella D'oro facility. It was great.
looks like Dick Clark hiding behind one of those trees
Coffee just came out of my nose. Thank you for that.
ROFLMAO!!!
I probably won't sleep for a month now. Thank you, very much.
I have a super secret screen cleaner for that
Next!
I suspect that Michael Moore's boxers could be the sweet smelling source for lib Manhattanites.
Otherwise it's Soman (GD) and New Yorkers have simply become de-sensitized to fruity smells twice as deadly as Sarin.
eggzactly. the last words before dropping dead would be "oooh yummy".
Oprah left Chicago?
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