Greenpoint Likely To Stink For Years
This is fucking disgusting. From Gridskipper
The smell, which comes from the nearby Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, arrivedsix weeks agoages ago and has somehow gotten worse in both smell and intensity this month.A friend of Gridskipper and Greenpoint resident describes it thusly, “It’s smells like your grandma is cooking a meatball stew, but instead of meatballs it’s crap and it’s blowing right through your window.” AM New York has a piece today saying that the smell is not likely to go away for a couple more years. The DEP tells them they are replacing key pieces of equipment and the smell will go away in ’09 when “the thickening centrifuges will be in full operation.”
I hate the smell so much and I might have considered a different apartment if I knew that every Sunday after dinner time the smell of shit would subtly seep through the windows and into my home prompting me to explain quickly to my houseguests that the smell is a sewage plant and that it’s only on windy days etc. It just sucks and I hate the smell and I don’t want to wait until 2009!
I’m so glad I moved the f**k out of Dodge! Every time I drove into Greenpoint over the Kosciuszko bridge and could truly see that industrial wasteland of a neighborhood, I’d have to convince myself that it wasn’t as nasty as it obviously is. There’s no future in that dump, not even in 2009.