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.
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.
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.
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.
The family escaped from NYC when I was seven. Never looked back. Hated the city.
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.
Don’t worry ,Obama said NYC will soon be under water and get a good wash
No gleam...not even for an invite to Trump Towers.
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?
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!
Demonicrats.
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.
This story is wack.
The worst smell comes from the sewers when it hasn’t rained in a while. Then they forgot the Halal carts, which don’t smell so bad if you haven’t tasted the food. If you have, you don’t want to be reminded of it. And people who ride public transportation shouldn’t eat garlic. Other than the occasional schizophrenic homeless person, that’s really about it.
We’re near the ocean. We have crosswind. This person is just trying to earn its monthly rent.
Easy....liberals.
Perhaps a government grant is needed to fully understand the complexities of this phenomenon....
My time in NYC goes back to the 50s when I lived and worked there. also had 2 of my kids there. A different time, I know.
But after moving to NJ I was often back into the city for classes and my frequent trips to Chinatown. (Talk about smells!! Down there it was called aromas!!)
A lot depends on the mayor!! Big changes under Giuliani. Need more mayors like him!
Never been to any large cities except Houston and Boston-and didn’t smell anything unpleasant. I wasn’t aware that certain cities stink.
Glad I live in a city by the sea..never smell anything but fresh salt air.
Rancid?
The one and only visit there in '93 --- the place smelled like a sewage treatment plant.
Lets not forget the men of color who can now relieve themselves in the street without getting arrested, thank you douchebag deblasio