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While many people start dreaming of turkey with all the trimmings once the weather gets crisper, residents of the Parkchester area of the Bronx are pretty anti-turkey these days, due to a smoked turkey plant's almost noxious fumes. Both the NY Times and the AP note how finally the City is urging an evironmental agency to close down the LSK Smoked Turkey Products plant. LSK had been asked to work on its filtration systems, but the changes haven't been satisfactory, especially not to residents. One resident blames the plant for his children's asthmas and lung bacteria. Area residents describe the smell as: - "Burnt barbecue turkey potato chips"
- "Rotten eggs"
- "A rotting rat"
- "A mix of soap and burnt bacon"
Ugh. And we thought the Times Square subway on a hot sultry day was bad. One of the problems is that LSK, which had previously made Williamsburg smell bad, employs 55 people, and LSK workers are worried that they'll lose their jobs. Gothamist wonders if there isn't a better, if more expensive, way to deal with the fumes (which look intense, from the NY Times picture) - if they can plant microchips under our skin, there has to be a way to reduce the smell of turkey "smoking."
This made Gothamist wonder about other smells in the city. There's the bus exhaust and the smell of bagels outside of H&H, as well as the more-than-earthy explosion of scents (good and bad) in Chinatown and the fried fumes of the San Gennaro Festival. Other bad smells in the city - the Gowanus, Subway sandwich shops, Times Square subway on a hot sultry day, bar bathrooms at around 1AM. And good smells - outside Jacques Torres' place in DUMBO (but a good kind of chocolatey smell), pizzerias, Peter Luger's, Krispy Kreme, freshly cut grass in the park, the Greenmarket, and a fresh newspaper.
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Parkchester has several concerns. Aside from the Turkey Smog, they also have the Cross Bronx Expressway Smog. The area of I95 handles over 120,000 cars on any given weekday.
I beg to differ with you. Fresh baking bread at one NYC's over-represented Subway shops smells a wee bit better than greasy Krispy Kremes (aka Kholesterol Kremes).
The worst smell of the city at the moment is that horrible, yeasty stench from somewhere around the 4th Avenue exit of the Union Square/14th Street station. I can't tell if it's from severely unwashed body/bodies, or maybe from the Au Bon Pain upstairs. For some reason, though, this dreadful stink only comes out at night. It is NASTY!!!
Subway under bad smells? I have to question your taste in all things olfactory, Ms. Chung. A Subway has opened next to my apartment, and my nose thanks me every day for walking past.
I like the smell of sewage.
>>>A Subway has opened next to my apartment, and my nose thanks me every day for walking past.
Subway sandwich shops smell like doctor's offices. There's something antiseptic about that smell.
--Sushi places smell awful. Raw fish smell.
--Taquerias smell terrific.
--Why do they call them Krispy Kreme. They're not krispy and there's usually no kreme.
--I love the fried meat smells from Burger Kings and McDonalds.
--I like dry cleaning smells, the chemicals they use.
--There is no better smell than...
Frying bacon.
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subway smells revolting, and people who eat there should be lined up in the street and shot excecution style
For good smells, I like the smell of honey roasted nuts from a street vendors when it's 40 degrees or colder. The smell of jerk chicken is pretty fantastic, too. The smell of burgers grilling at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park is wonderful.
I agree that Subway's institutional bread baking smell is awful.
the underpass at 51st and lex for the 6 train. some weird combo of ammonia and urine and it's all the time. NASTY!!!!!