The smell of hot garbage in the morning, evening or afternoon is well-known to anyone who’s lived through a New York City summer.
But the familiar urban fragrance is especially pronounced and pervasive this year, partly because of the three heat waves that the city has already experienced.
“It is the most disgusting cocktail of all the worst smells I can think of,” said Ollie Robinson, a marketing manager who lives in Hell’s Kitchen and was tweeting about the smell last week. “The garbage is in there but so is a little bit of sewage, possibly some throw-up. It is bad and it is strong.”
“I was around last year and it wasn’t as bad as it is this year,” he added in a phone interview on Wednesday.
City data shows that 311…
