Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:42 AM PST by dogbyte12
YORK -- People all over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas, and it's not clear where it's coming from.
Numerous people have called 911 concerned about the odor. Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating.
PATH service has been suspended into the 33rd Street station. Service is still going into the World Trade Center station.
Macy's department store has been evacuated, according to reports.
There also are unconfirmed reports of a similar smell across the river in New Jersey.
People between Midtown and Battery Park are reported to be smelling it. At NBC headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza, the odor is very strong. One person who works on the sixth floor at 30 Rockefeller Center says it's so strong people are leaving the building.
At one major office building at 37th and 7th, employees have been told that Con Edison is looking into a smell, and they should remain inside until they hear otherwise.
Mayor Bloomberg is expected to be asked about it at a 9:30 briefing with the media.
Hillary farted.
i smell it....my building sure isnt getting evacuated yet... i should evacuate myself but i have a 10 am meeting !! dammit !
A smell covering both New York and New Jersey? Corruption?
Wind blowing in from Jersey?
Old Crusty in town?
**insert fart joke here**
I had Mexican last night. Dont smell anything over here in Hell's Kitchen.
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).
Merely a Giuliani Parnters staff meeting.
If it is gas, it's a good thing they added some kind of additive so the leak could be smelled.
Seriously though, Macy's AND NBC AND a whole host of other buildings are catching this odor strongly. Whatever it is, there apparently is alot of it. If it's gas, this strong, the fire danger has to be huge.
It's nat gas folks are smelling, or rather the stink they add to it?
sw
No, no.
With a butt THAT size, had she done so, Manhattan would be missing.
Would a single gas leak cause this much odor over such a wide area? Is it a natural gas smell, or something else?
Still at work! I can smell it now. It really smells like gas!
Terrorist attack?...........Pat Robertson said it wouldn't be until later this year........
Fresh Kills stinks (stunk?) to high heaven. We've smelled that on visits.
what is your location in town?
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