{"id":2953,"date":"2007-12-03T07:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/now_it_smells_like_fish_and_roses.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T15:07:28","slug":"now_it_smells_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/now_it_smells_l.html","title":{"rendered":"Now It Smells Like Fish And Roses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/12\/03\/2007-12-03_untitled__stink03m-4.html\">a matchbook by the toilet<\/a> than anything &#8220;fancy&#8221; like Chanel No. 5:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It&#8217;s the bureaucratic equivalent of trying to cover up bad body odor with Chanel No. 5.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, residents of one Brooklyn neighborhood have been complaining about a stomach-churning smell wafting from the site of a former sewer pipe project.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s response? Tossing nylon socks filled with pine deodorizer into the catch basins.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t stanched the stench. In fact, locals say the scent of raw sewage is even more noticeable now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that adding the pine made the existing smell even more potent,&#8221; said Aaron Green, 27, one of the Bay Ridge residents who is sick of the stink.<\/p>\n<p>The stink has been hovering over a stretch of Fort Hamilton Parkway between Marine Ave. and 99th St.<\/p>\n<p>The odor cropped up in the summer of 2006 after the completion of a $6.9 million project to combine the underground sewer pipes there, residents say.<\/p>\n<p>As complaints mounted, the community board notified the city Department of Environmental Protection, which began dumping piney perfume onto the site.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually more like a matchbook by the toilet than anything &#8220;fancy&#8221; like Chanel No. 5: It&#8217;s the bureaucratic equivalent of trying to cover up bad body odor with Chanel No. 5. For more than a year, residents of one Brooklyn neighborhood have been complaining about a stomach-churning smell wafting from the site of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,61,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}