For some perspective, google maps shows 1 Linden Ave to be directly across from Staten Island. So that smoke must have hit SI first before hitting most of Brooklyn, then Queens, then out into Long Island.

I was working in Bethpage, and we're a lot closer to the Suffolk County line, than Brooklyn or Queens, and we could smell the smoke all the way out there. Security and the overnight supervisors were going around trying to see if the smell was coming from out building, but after checking reports they realized that the smell was coming all the way from Jersey.

Just smells like millions of gallons of poop in my nabe. Business as usual!

The smell woke me up around 3am and I live far into Bushwick.

Dude get over yourself. Access to information is a good thing. the fact that "things burn" is irrelevant here.

You are all Generation Overshare/TMI in my opinion. You live in a big city, things burn, get used to it.

All you nitwits in Crown Heights trying to have your NY moment are so predictable. You want to see fires, you should have been here in the 70s.

Shouldn't it be Generation Over$hare? kidz luv the $ign

Yeah, it was so much cooler here back when if your block was filled with acrid smoke you had no idea where it was coming. You had to tough to live through that hardship.

You kids today with your fancy "being able to find things out" think that's cool, but you don't understand. Take it from Bonu$baby, ignorance is cool!

you moron, this smell made it hard to breathe for most of a BOROUGH. an entire borough being clouded in toxic smoke is a big deal.

you sound upset, do you live with your parents in westchester?

We watched the plume of smoke traveling across the river riding on the BQE last night (around 1 am), and arrived to the same acrid odor of burning rubber. Twitter was the first place to help us identify the smell, which slowly permiated our building as the night wore on.

Thanks to everyone else for sharing their stories as well.

jersey farted.

And burped at the same time! Chris Christie forever!

I'm in Clinton Hill and the smell woke me up as well. At first I thought it was in our building but when I opened the window it became clear that the 9/11-type smell was coming from outside.

311 was on it when I called them (not sure what time).

It's 11:30 a.m. and the smell lingers on the streets around here.

We woke up at 330 am to the smell of smoke in downtown Brooklyn. We though our building was on fire and saw the thick smoke out the window. We googled Brooklyn fire and all tweets came up about it saying it was a fire in jersey. Nice to know I could count on twitter cause there was nothing on ny1.

It was disgusting and blanketed all of the skyline. My roommate and I were up on the roof around 3:30 in Bushwick. We kept saying where are all the sirens from fire trucks. We though for sure it only had to be a mile away.

I'm glad this was posted. I woke up and smelled smoke at 2 am and thought it was in my building. I live next to a firehouse I heard the heard going out, so I relaxed. It really did smell like burning trash.

Sunset Park is also REEKING of burning rubber this morning. Really gross.

Thank you for this! My boyfriend and I were wondering what the hell was going on... last night at 4am we were driving home from a party in Park Slope and the whole city was blanketed in thick, hazy smoke. Couldn't even see the Empire State Building from the BQE until we got almost to the Grand Central Parkway, and the smell was horrible. When we first noticed it, we thought we were having car touble, and then we looked around!

Same outfit got fined $188K last week for exposing its workers to too much lead, and a host of other safety violations.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/10/jersey_city_metal_recycler_fac.html

dailyheights message boards also good for breaking Brooklyn news....