Gothamist: Sewage Leak Causing G Line Stink

laura

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:19:25 -0500

The G and the M are the worst! The A is a runner up.

anon

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:26:42 -0500

ps it's been that way for nearly a month!! definitely the worst at flushing ave (my home station, unfortunately)

Lee

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:03:41 -0500

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.

Sternel

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:57:32 -0500

This makes me wonder ... where did the name "Flushing" come from anyway? According to Wikipedia: The town of Flushing was first settled in 1645 under charter of the Dutch West India Company and was named after the city of Vlissingen, in the southwestern Netherlands. It is said that the name Vlissingen means "salt meadow" and that the name was given as a nod to the tidal waters of Flushing Meadows. Pronunciation was corrupted to "Flushing" by the town's English-speaking inhabitants. ...I'll take low tide over shitty subways anyway, personally.

Tim N.

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:03:01 -0500

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?

Robert

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:00:07 -0500

This makes me wonder ... where did the name "Flushing" come from anyway?

capital world

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:19:14 -0500

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.

Jeremy

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:12:10 -0500

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.

Mr Hankey

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:59:51 -0500

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..

Ace

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:43:09 -0500

In Brooklyn the G's only purpose is slowing down the F train; the M's only purpose is slowing down the D train.

thfs

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:29:06 -0500

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.

Matthew

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:06:02 -0500

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.

cincin

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:58:28 -0500

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...

schmod

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:56:47 -0500

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)

Jane Minty

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:19:03 -0500

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!

ag

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:13:52 -0500

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.

Kevin Walsh

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:09:31 -0500

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

janelle

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:03:49 -0500

when i take the G up to williamsburg i always notice a not-THAT-bad sulphuric smell at the "flushing" stop. strangely... appropriate.

tien

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:59:23 -0500

that makes perfect sense. i swear that you can sometimes smell sewage at the greenpoint and nassau stops too.