Ack! Some crazy, noxious smell seeped into Staten Island yesterday and made people so sick that the city's Hazmat team was brought in! People were made nauseous, anxious (where is that gas leak? I can't find it!), and nervous. Then the smell headed to the Rockaways, but it was less disgusting there and no one needed hospital attention as the Staten Island smell victims did (air conditioners sucked in the smell and concentrated it in homes and offices). The DEP isn't sure what caused the smell - Con Ed and the NJ city of Bayonne has denied that they had anything to do with the smell while KeySpan was working to see what had causing it. Samples are being tested though (how do you collect air samples, exactly?).
And it's funny - when a smell attacks Manhattan (and Brooklyn), it's maple syrup. When it attacks SI and Queens, it's puke-inducing. Interesting...
