New York – New York smells like many things, and some of them are good: freshly baked bagels, a beer and a dog at Yankee Stadium, the salt air that blows in on a summer morning.
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Of course, many New York smells are not so good. Feel free to think of some of your own least favorites.
In a press release on Friday (and yes, we realize it was April Fool’s Day, and the assemblyman’s office swore this was not a joke), Mr. Titone introduced legislation that would name pine as New York’s official state scent. He said that while New York had the usual official flower, tree, bird, fish and whatnot, we did not have a state scent. “And that stinks,” he said.

Mr. Titone acknowledged that each New York community had its own smells, saying that his Staten Island constituents occasionally had to endure the odors of New Jersey. In choosing pine, however, he said he had found a unifying scent for the state, citing the pine barrens of Long Island, the Adirondack forests, and taxi air fresheners as his influences.
New York smells like GARBAGE.
The subways smell like a butter cup. Right?
New York smells like CRAP.
If the scent factor is decided by what you smell sitting in a taxi or while trekking through a forest, wouldn’t you think that those doing the smelling are in the minority, while subway riders are in the majority and can tell you what it smells like while they ride or make the trek?
Perhaps this pine cone head plans on getting funding to scent the subways with pine scent! Now that would be an improvement.
Aren’t there more pressing issues for our politicians at these troubled times? May I suggest allocating resources to determine the State Fish.
Meshiguim
obviously the smell is roasted chestnuts and hot pretzels.
NY smells like coffee
ny smells like rotten gefilte fish