[dogbyte12]

They are evacuating a lot of buildings now. The smell seems to be all over Manhattan. I am wondering if it is a gas leak, and how large it has to be to be effecting multiple buildings.

[ARE SOLE]

Hillary farted.

[TerP26]

i smell it....my building sure isnt getting evacuated yet... i should evacuate myself but i have a 10 am meeting !! dammit !

[coloradan]

A smell covering both New York and New Jersey? Corruption?

[Vaquero]

Wind blowing in from Jersey?

[Charles Henrickson]

Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan

Old Crusty in town?

[eyespysomething]

Fox News just reported in NJ there is a strong gas smell also.

**insert fart joke here**

[andy58-in-nh]

That's an awfully large area for a gas leak (Macy's is on 34th and Rockefeller Center is in the 50's if I recall).

[TommyDale]

Merely a Giuliani Parnters staff meeting.

[Peach]

If it is gas, it's a good thing they added some kind of additive so the leak could be smelled.

[mewzilla]

It's nat gas folks are smelling, or rather the stink they add to it?

[spectre]

Fox news is saying that the GAS is being smelled in New Jersey as well..They say it might be coming from New Jersey? Who the heck knows..

sw

[dinoparty]

Would a single gas leak cause this much odor over such a wide area? Is it a natural gas smell, or something else?

[areafiftyone]

Still at work! I can smell it now. It really smells like gas!

[Red Badger]

Terrorist attack?...........Pat Robertson said it wouldn't be until later this year........

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Does every thread have to instantly degenerate into some sort of open mic night at the local dive bar? Not every story is an opportunity to crack open the lame joke book you got for Christmas, folks.

[DBrow]

Natural gas is oderless, they add methyl mercaptan to it that stinks, and the sulfur in it gives the flame a blue tint.

If someone spilled a quart of methyl or ethyl mercaptan it'd smell up a large area.

[DouglasKC]

If it's a terrorist attack, it's pretty crafty. Access to gas lines is pretty much unimpeded. A maniac, or a group of maniacs, only have to cut a number of lines throughout the city, light a match and boom.

[meg88]

[LIConFem]

I work a few blocks north of $hitty Hall. No smell here as yet (Bloomie must be outta town).

[isthisnickcool]

No big deal, Rosie is in New York today. And she didn't fart, the smell is coming from another hole.