Smell Returns?

Has the strange smell from October returned? Inconclusive:

Perplexed pedestrians phoned the Fire Department and 311 yesterday afternoon when the sweet yet bewildering odor resurfaced in areas from the Flatiron District to the upper East and West Sides.

“It seems to be a repeat of what happened in October,” said Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection, which is probing the scent.

The DEP used haz-mat equipment to check for compounds in the air at E.82nd St. and York Ave., Columbus Ave. and W.94th St., and even a spot on Maiden Lane downtown yesterday afternoon.

So far, investigators have found nothing sinister about the aroma. Testing will continue tomorrow if the scent persists.

Meanwhile, the Times sent out its writer to investigate and found nothing:

This reporter took his nose for a stroll on 42nd Street between 11th Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Nose in the air, he detected nothing except for a rotten-egg smell midblock at Madison Avenue.

See also: Gothamist Smell Map.