by Emma Davey 
I heard the rumors about the mysterious smell emanating from the Nassau Avenue station, of course, but since moving further north, Greenpoint Avenue became my new home base. Yet this past weekend while taking the train, as our stubby little collection of cars pulled into Nassau Avenue, an unmistakable stench assaulted my nostrils, confirming the rumors with my very own sense of smell.
“When will our suffering end?” I yelled, shaking my fists at the…
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If I am allowed to post a non PC post here, this incident reminds of of when I went to Bklyn Tech in downtown Bklyn in the 1960s. Boys (not coed then) from Tech and Westinghouse and Bklyn Loughlin noticed a stench every day when the GG train (known then) passed the Broadway Station, a few stations before Nassau. It was coming from the big Pfizer plant there which was still in operation. We did not know that and blamed it on the local Catholic Girls HS there.
Ahhhh…the wonderfu smells of the sunway system. However at so,e stations It may be may be a mbit more serious than mere unpleasant odors, Especially stations on the G line (such as Greennpoint Ave), which are located immediately adjacent to toxic “Love Cana;_ bodies of water such as suoerfundsite Newtown Creek: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-subway-stations-rivers-poorest-air-quality/