Just in case you had no idea that the subways smell bad, Fox 5 would like to highlight that for you. In a story that explores some rather gruesome subject matter, the Fox news team explores the Herald Square station and finds it to both smell and look like a toilet on more ways than one.
The MTA says the human excrement has since been removed, but apparently the odor is lingering due to the station’s homeless population. This, mind you, is at one of the busiest hubs in the city. I don’t want to draw too many conclusions here, but stories like this one highlight why New Yorkers have such a love-hate relationship with transit.
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Herald Square is the first station that comes to mind when I think of awful-smelling stations. I took an elevator there once and almost didn’t make it out alive.
Back when I commuted to Herald Square, to catch the N, I needed to walk, no, run past the bathrooms. And during the hot sweltering summers… yuck.
What about the stench on the 14th Street F/M platform? It rivals Chinatown in the summer.
The link to Fox does not work.
Could that have something to do with the fact that http://
is there twice at the beginning?
The link is working now.
It’s bad enough here in NYC that our POLITICIANS are so full of shit all the time, but does our SUBWAY have to be like that, also?
Herald Square is just a bad station no matter which way you look at it. I avoid it when possible (as well as the Sixth and Eighth Avenue Lines in general).
Breaking news: highways are congested. But first: Fox News is stupid and reactionary.
And sensationalist!
Step 1: complain that the MTA gets too much money. Step 2: be a good example by throwing trash out onto the tracks and platform. Step 3: complain that service is inadequate and subways are dirty.
Exactly. There is no way fecal matter would stink after 2 weeks. The bugs and mice and rats would have taken care of it.
Maybe some guys who were drunk, on drugs, or mentally ill (or any combination of the above) made fresh “deposits” there since two weeks ago.
The MTA is blaming the stink on the station’s homeless population? Um, homeless people should not be living in a subway station. Get ’em out of there and into shelters. Unacceptable.