Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

January 08, 2007

Something Smells Funny in Manhattan

Regular readers of this blog know that, until last October, I worked in midtown Manhattan. And a very good friend of mine who still works for my former company told me that something smells funny:

The odor of natural gas was reported across Midtown Manhattan, prompting hundreds of calls to emergency workers.

Hundreds of calls poured into city emergency officials. Apparently the calls were coming from Chelsea, Battery Park west, Madison Square Park, and there are also reports of the gas smell outside of our studio on 66th Street and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side. A very similar smell was also reported in Downtown Jersey City.

My former office building is not far from 5th and 34th.

So far, nothing hazardous has been discovered, and emergency vehicles have been buzzing around all morning. My friend says that the smell inside the office improved after the air conditioning (!) was turned off, but now they're all getting a tad warm.

Needless to say, I will be watching this story closely.