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According to our trusty informants at Gothamist Contribute, the maple sugar smell returned for a fourth time last night:
The maple syrup smell is a Canadian conspiracy to get us to buy more maple syrup!Now the other times there was the overly sweet smell of something like maple syrup, October 27 and December 8, they were also Thursday nights. And wind was blowing from Jersey-- was that the case last night? And if it was, that seems to validate the New York Times theory, about the smell emanating from the food additive company factories in North Jersey. Could this be a freak Chinese New Year coincidence, with the Money God blowing some sweet fortune our way?
January 27, 2006 12:31 AMi smell it on 118th street!!
January 27, 2006 12:22 AMThe syrup smell is very strong near La Guardia as well. This is really freaking me out.
January 26, 2006 11:26 PMcpw at 88th-check
January 26, 2006 11:06 PMYes, call 311. I just did, and they said they had received a few calls. No immediate help though, but a report was filed...
January 26, 2006 10:54 PMI, too, find it ridiculous that this happens, and nothing comes of it. I don't want to be dramatic, but it's NYC for chrissakes! The country's at war, we've been attacked, and a frigging syrup smell blankets the city, and no one figures out why. I just don't get it. Why aren't city, state, and federal officials addressing this. It's the THIRD time!
January 26, 2006 10:53 PMstrong and mapley on E. 89th.
January 26, 2006 10:51 PMMaple syrup smell: duly noted on West 84th St. WHAT IS IT??? Why always on Thursdays???
January 26, 2006 10:51 PMStrong maple syrup smell also confirmed on West 84th St. near Central Park. Call 311 and log your location with the NY Environmental Protection Agency if you can smell it too..
January 26, 2006 10:49 PMSmelling it in Astoria, too. I am so tired of how this keeps getting joked about, especially in the news. It truly scares the hell out of me.
January 26, 2006 10:48 PMThe maple syrup smell is back on E.97th street!
January 26, 2006 10:46 PMSomebody PLEASE tell us the source of the smell!!!
January 26, 2006 10:45 PMThe syrup smellest is overwhelming on West 88th Street. I'm horrified, yet I'm on my way into the kitchen to retrieve some cake.
January 26, 2006 10:43 PMWe smell maple syrup on E. 92nd!
January 26, 2006 10:32 PMThe syrup smell is back on the UES too! So weird........
January 26, 2006 10:21 PMThis is probably so last year, but the maple syrup smell is back on the UWS!
January 26, 2006 10:11 PM
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I have found that a wet diaper has the peculiar odor of syrup. Are we sure it isn't pee we are smelling? That also could be emanating from our beloved neighbor, NJ.
Smelt it last night up at W122nd street, around 11ish (11:30?)
If it was some commercial factory don't you think they would have come forward by now? Something is wrong and the sh*t is going to hit the fan soon.
I had posted this a few weeks back when it ran orginally...
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00B10F73A540C768CDDA80894DE404482
Gothamist weather guy should look into this. It seems pretty obvious that it is coming from NJ but appearing when the atmospheric table is set correctly. Weather dude should take a look at what the conditions were on all the syrupy days. Here is your chance to break the big one Gothamist!
It was so strong all evening on the UWS. It was driving me insane!
Pretty sure the smell comes from the construction in the old sugar factory in Brooklyn.
I smelled it this morning riding down the bike path along the west side highway - started at 181, but didn't smell it until about 116. the wind was out of the south this morning, right? or south-southwest. I think last time it was out of the north or northwest....although I'm confused, because isn't wind named for it's direction? so last time it might have been out of the south- southwest also. hmmm.
I can't believe the OEM doesn't want to track it, even as an exercise. Also, what do they mean by non-toxic - just that it doesn't contain any of the things they test for? They certainly can't test for the full universe of potential toxins and bacteria - so, what do they test for?
I'm totally not smelling it. The only thing I smelled walking home on W 98th last night was bus exhaust. How am I missing this?
And for the fourth time, nobody cares!
Smelled it around 49th/5th at 6p Wed.
I had heard around the first time this happened (from someone in my nabe whose family member is a gov't employee) that FEMA was testing how a cloud of whatever would travel in our region. Could FEMA actually be doing something proactive?
I had heard around the first time this happened (from someone in my nabe whose family member is a gov't employee) that FEMA was testing how a cloud of whatever would travel in our region. Could FEMA actually be doing something proactive?
I smelled it during orchestra rehearsal (www.nysae.net) inside the auditorium of Julia Richman HS, E. 67th Street/2nd Ave, maybe around 8:30 pm.
What if this turns out to be a underground ad for some maple syrup company? Much in the same way that Sony PSPs are appearing everywhere.
smelled it on the uptown 1 train at chambers street around 6 pm..not something you usually smell on a train. usually the only sweet smell is the fruit loop-esque cleaning product they use on the A train....
I agree with Johnie. Similar to filtering popcorn smells through the vents of a movie theatre.
I agree with Johnie. Similar to filtering popcorn smells through the vents of a movie theatre.
I caught the smell Thursday around 11:30AM @Broadway & 12th. Interesting that it moved uptown and slowly it would seem.
Frankly, even if it's harmless or "non-toxic", I'm not feeling too confident at this point about the abilities of the EPA and other authorities to protect us in the case of a true "airborne toxic event". (Not that Katrina left us any doubt about the gov't's intentions to drown it's own citizens in a bathtub.) Does the EPA even have any real scientists in their employ? Or any real scientific equipment? Why aren't they on the case?
Although, at the same time, I can't just ignore it like a good NY'er and say: "Well, since I'm not dead yet, it must be OK", because frankly, since the last time the EPA said "it was safe to breath the air", right after 9/11, at least two people have died from respiratory problems.
Seems like we need to raise our own stink.
At least it's only a smell and not a deadly flood of molasses!
the maple syrup smell is very odd true- sounds like the work of the evil menace...THE WAFFLER! taking over gothem!!!!
So, where's the Google Maps mashup? Surely someone has some pancake icons in their web kit.
Smelled it on 33rd between Seventh and Ninth Avenues this morning, 2/1/06 at 9am!. Strong and unmistakably pancake syrup - not natural maple syrup, more 'Mrs. Butterworth' in nature.
AS a maker of maple syrup in the northeast, I laugh and laugh and laugh, but really get it clear, Mrs Butterworth's IS NOT Maple syrup. Let's see a giant oic of a nice bottle of Grade A syrup next to the Brooklyn Bridge!
Is it just me, or am I smelling the maple syrup again?
I started smelling it yesterday March 13, 2006 in the East Village, all afternoon and night and now I'm smelling it at home on the UWS... March 14, 2006.
Hmmm... makes me want waffles...