
- Man is killed in Crown Heights alternate-side-of-the-street parking his car
- The MTA says it will drop arrest charges against a transgender woman who used the women's bathroom at Grand Central; the transgender woman claims the transit police harrassed her repeatedly - which we can believe
- This makes it seem like arbitration is close - the MTA is going to approve the transit workers contract that the union rejected
- How might lobbying groups deal with the city's new restrictions?
- While the old Gage & Tollner's may be a TGI Friday's, there are still some traces of old restaurant
- And let's talk maple syrup smell - we had a few tips that there was a maple syrupy, perhaps caramel scent in the air... did you smell anything?
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It smelled like hot chocolate at 8:30 in south park slope tonight.
I drive on the BQE everyday. At about 6 or 7pm every night it seems to smell like candy just before the exit for the prospect expressway (I head eastbound from Brooklyn to Manhattan). Different candy every night. Weird.
Yesterday, I caught my first whiff of the smell near houston and bleecker. Much stronger than I had imagined, it smelled very buttery. Very strange.
Huh. I thought the smell only came on Thursdays...
I thought the smell came on Thursdays, too, which is why we were surprised to hear about this. Some day we'll find out what it was and we'll be terribly disgusted.