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Well, this is totally reassuring: The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed there is a sewage leak somewhere on the G line that is causing the disgusting smell. A track inspector told am New York, "It's like raw sewage coming from a pipe, disgusting. It smells real bad and makes me want to throw up." Jeez, we want to throw up, too, just thinking about it. The DEP says since the Marcy and Flushing sewer main is "very, very large," it's taking some time to locate the leak. Oh, and the DEP says sewage is not a health hazard to subway riders, which might be technically true, but if someone threw up in the train, you'd call them sick.
Now we wonder if the smells plaguing some really gross stations are secret sewage leaks. Then again, Tien did spot human poo at a G train station, so maybe the leaks aren't so secret. Also, Check out Save the G.
And in good MTA news, the agency will spend $8 million to study ways to improve access to the Mets' new stadium - and some of the money will actually go towards "short-term improvements, such as repainting the Willets Point subway station, and repairing the platform and stairs," according to the Post.
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that makes perfect sense. i swear that you can sometimes smell sewage at the greenpoint and nassau stops too.
when i take the G up to williamsburg i always notice a not-THAT-bad sulphuric smell at the "flushing" stop. strangely... appropriate.
Even when it doesn't smell, 21st-Van Alst is the flagship station of "The Real Subway"...
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/realsubways2/realsubway2.html
I live off the Flushing stop and the smell is ever present and sometimes chokingly awful. The thing is that I had assumed that it was off-gassing from the Pfizer plant directly above the stop and that we were all at least getting a inhaled dosage of Prozac along with the stench.
The most vile part of the assault comes 15 seconds after the doors close at Flushing. Inevitably there's a group of teenagers at the other end of the car bursting out in giggles and screaming, "IT SMELLS LIKE SHIT!!" It IS rather unsettling being forced to breathe others' collective poo particles, which then lodge themselves in my delicate nasal passages, only to be coughed up later.
I'm glad the DEP and MTA are placing this issue high up on their list of priorities!
While they're working on the 7, why not connect the darn thing to LaGuardia for once.
It's pretty embarrasing that NYC's airports weren't connected to other mass transit systems until the past decade (Newark included)
what about the barf smell at union square, by the elevator, near the food emporium? is it still there - I've been avoiding that entrance for a good year or so now...
The Greenpoint G station used to reek of...something! Not sewage, but more along the lines of a rotting dead animal--reminiscent of when a rat died in my cousin's bedroom wall. I haven't smelled it lately, but it's still pretty foul down there.
There's definitely a sewer leak at the Flushing stop! There used to be a creek that ran between the tracks from Flushing to Broadway stop on the northbound side, but now it is a river o' poo.
In Brooklyn the G's only purpose is slowing down the F train; the M's only purpose is slowing down the D train.
Don't be so down on public poo. It does serve a purpose, like when you may have fallen asleep on the F train to Brooklyn, but you can always tell when the train has reached 2nd avenue stop by the smell coming through the open doors..
I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the huge mess I made throwing up on the G just before the Bedfor-Nostrand stop very early Sunday morning.
To think some people want the Olympics here in NYC.
Another plus. Come to NYC where we have sewage in our subways. Take that Paris.
This makes me wonder ... where did the name "Flushing" come from anyway?
He he... there's a Flushing sewer main... he he he...
Shut up, Beavis!
PS: Why would a foul-smelling sewage leak remind you of the Mets?
...I'll take low tide over shitty subways anyway, personally.
In response to Matthew and the smell at the Greenpoint station. They pile the garbage up on the Brooklyn bound India side of the station and just let it cook there. The smell is unbearable in the summer.
ps it's been that way for nearly a month!! definitely the worst at flushing ave (my home station, unfortunately)
The G and the M are the worst!
The A is a runner up.