That maple syrup smell in Manhattan? Solved!

Posted by Chris Benjamin in Food, New York City, Strange on Feb 6th, 2009 | 0 comments

Baffled city investigators began calling them “maple syrup events”: mysterious waves of sweet-smelling air that periodically wafted over Manhattan, delighting some, troubling others and vanishing as quickly as they had arrived.

After each episode — in 2005, 2006 and again this year — residents flooded the city’s 311 information hot line with calls. The city’s Department of Environmental Protection dispatched air testers. But nobody could pinpoint the smell — or its source.

See the full article at the New York Times

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