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Here's why New York City smells so rancid in the summer
Business Insider ^ | June 7, 2016 | Molly Sequin

Posted on 06/11/2016 7:18:17 AM PDT by C19fan

For travelers with the gleam of the Big Apple in their eye, nothing seems better than New York City in the summertime.

Restaurants have outdoor seating, there are festivals all over town, and you don't have to worry about bringing your jacket to Top of the Rock.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: garbage; nyc; summer
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Summer is the worst time of year to be in NYC.
1 posted on 06/11/2016 7:18:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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I remember as a kid coming home to Manhattan from a summer at camp, as we crossed over the George Washington Bridge, my parents complained about the Smell of the city, but I loved it, it was the combined smell of everything I loved about Washington Heights.


2 posted on 06/11/2016 7:22:11 AM PDT by heights
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I had to machete through Times Square last night to get to the theater. Amazing how Bloomberg, DeBlasio and tourists have turned that area into the worst piece of dreck outside of Bourbon Street in August. A stupid tourist, thinking it was perfectly ok to throw her hands wide on a massively crowded street, struck my friend, Lara, in the eye.

Fall can’t come soon enough.


3 posted on 06/11/2016 7:26:12 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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Ahhhhhhhhhh, the fragrance of urine and vomit wafting from concrete and macadam, in the summer. The subways’ aromas are especially enticing. I worked in Midtown back in the 70s & early 80s, so I remember it well.


4 posted on 06/11/2016 7:26:29 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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Over crowded....lots of garbage (and worse)....and hot humid days. What’s to figure out?
The article writer could get a government job putting shrimp on treadmills.


5 posted on 06/11/2016 7:28:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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The family escaped from NYC when I was seven. Never looked back. Hated the city.


6 posted on 06/11/2016 7:29:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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I spent a week in Manhattan in August of 2003. A couple of days it was in the upper 90’s. The whole place reeked. I couldn’t wait to get back to the hotel at the end of the day and scrub the grime and filth off.


7 posted on 06/11/2016 7:32:00 AM PDT by rickmichaels (I shouldn't have to press 1 for English)
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Don’t worry ,Obama said NYC will soon be under water and get a good wash


8 posted on 06/11/2016 7:33:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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No gleam...not even for an invite to Trump Towers.


9 posted on 06/11/2016 7:33:03 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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Ah, late summer in the French Quarter - there's a reference that so many can immediately understand.

IMO, even if every bar in the area were permanently closed, it would take ten years or more for that stench to finally vanish. And it rains there pretty regularly.

10 posted on 06/11/2016 7:37:05 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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One thing you just don’t smell in New York anymore is urine on the subways. Decades if effort have finally eliminated that problem.

But all that is coming to an end. Mayor DeBlasio and the City Council have decided that the NYPD should no longer enforce laws against public urination.

This I just don’t get. Who was the person who said “I want more public urination! I want the Subways to smell like Calcutta again!”?

It is clearly against the public interest, so you have to think the Mayor is responding to pressure from some group of donors or voters (more likely donors). So where is the public urination lobby, and what is their end-game?


11 posted on 06/11/2016 7:37:07 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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Come one!

Come all!

Join us at Times Square today at noon for the first annual

“SQUIRTIN’ ON THE SQUARE FESTIVAL!”

Mayor Bill de Blasio will lead thousands of New Yorkers as they relieve themselves for fun and entertainment.

The Surprise Squirter will be Hillary Clinton!

If you’re peeing on the sidewalk in New York City, then urine good company!


12 posted on 06/11/2016 7:39:20 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Here's why New York City smells so rancid in the summer

Demonicrats.

13 posted on 06/11/2016 7:39:24 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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My son went to Tulane so I remember the smell of the French Quarter in August quite well. No other place quite like it that I have seen.


14 posted on 06/11/2016 7:41:38 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Maybe some homeless group? If restaurants or fast food places won’t let them use the bathroom? Which begs the question...what about #2? Gross..... *gag*


15 posted on 06/11/2016 7:43:05 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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My brother calls the ‘new’ Times Square “Potterville” - after the awful fantasy city shown to James Stewart by the angel Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” He ain’t wrong.


16 posted on 06/11/2016 7:43:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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Because people have been peeing in the streets for 500 years? Really NYC smells year round, there are just some times of the year it’s cold enough that the smell is subdued.


17 posted on 06/11/2016 7:45:54 AM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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I stood on the ferry dock of Governors Island three serperate times looking at the ‘big city’, bustling traffic, wall to wall people, etc, etc.......

Three times I made the decision that The Big Apple would just have to get along with out me.


18 posted on 06/11/2016 7:45:56 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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It’s a great city. It’s a lousy mayor and worse tourists who destroy it. I’m pleased with anyone from out of town who stays away.


19 posted on 06/11/2016 7:50:29 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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Where do you see people peeing in the streets?


20 posted on 06/11/2016 7:50:53 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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