The outerboroughs are very much real NY. Just certain parts of Brooklyn are 'fake' Brooklyn (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Park Slope, anything north of Church Avenue).

Do you not smell that where you are?

Sorry, it was me. Pancakes give me nasty gas.

Okay, weren't you told not to think about anything. Anything at all. And you went ahead and picked the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man?! Jeez Louise!

The funny thing is that the smell of maple syrup--especialy as it's being heated--gives me an intense headache and makes me nauseous. (I can eat it on pancakes--just don't warm it on the stove.)

So my enemies are trying to reach me in New York, eh? You'll have to try harder, you fresh-scented felonious failures!

I heard that on Fox this morning and was alarmed.

Smells like syrup, not sweet almonds, right??

Cyanide smells like bitter almonds, not sweet. And it also gives me gas.

I haven't smelled a damn thing that's out of the ordinary. I live in Manhattan, and I walked to work today -- same as any day -- and ... nothing.

Sound's like hysteria to me.

Or Starbucks. The freakin' things are everywhere now.

"But, seriously, mystery smells, whether pleasant or not, are not welcome in the current Age of Sacred Murder."

Maybe it's an indication that the insane Islamicists have moved past the Age of Sacred Murder, and into the Age of Sacred Pastries.

I think it's the freshly baked doughnuts--with sprinkles.

I suspect an amino acid leak

Or maybe its just a publicity stunt for fragrance week, as reported by the New York Sun.

The Smell Test

By Jesse Greenspan and Meghan Keane
If New York smells a little better in the next few days, don't be alarmed: It's Fragrance Week. . . .

I keep forgetting why N'yorkers are better and smarter than anyone else, is it their stench tolerance abilities or their status as Mecca for theater fags?

We're just smarter than you, Dave.

It's pretty easy really. Nothing to it; although to you, it must seem extraordinary.

The city smells nice they get in a panic i guess thier so used to the smells of exuast,urine boose and illicit drugs when a wonderful smell is in the air its something bad

We're just smarter than you, Dave.

Apparently it was the second one, Dave.

All the upstaters in the house, make some noise.

We're with you, city folk, in a state-solidarity kind of way. Just let us buy guns and drive at night, and we'll all be fine.

We're with you, city folk, in a state-solidarity kind of way. Just let us buy guns and drive at night, and we'll all be fine.

I was wondering what that cracking sound was this afternoon. Then check in to find out it was the sound of a deal breaker.

Dude, the City isn't just its own state; it's its own solar system. (Scientists debate whether it orbits the left coast Las-Francisco debris or the other way around but most concede that it is probably a binary star kind of thing. Or, as the Frisco component might prefer, a daisy chain.)

Not that Buffalo was so great. It's just that, by comparison, it didn't have to be.