We heard from two residents via the comments.
Short answer: yes.
I live in one of the buildings behind the 14th Street IHOP, and no, the situation hasn't gotten much better. Several days will go by without much of a problem, and then the stench will begin again. Sometimes, like this morning, it will just be for an hour or two, but then there will be a couple of days when it is just never-ending. Right now, it's a low-level stale smell. My neighbors and I have repeatedly contacted CB6, the DEP, Rosie Mendez's office, you name it - IHOP is still stinking up the neighborhood. Please, please don't go to IHOP.
And...
I am an owner of one of the apartments that get's the brunt of the smell. I literally had to move out and find someone to rent the apartment too. No one would buy it. Everybody said it smells like bacon. The new tenant says it doesn't bother him so much, but I don't think he is home too much — plus he's been there for winter only, we'll see what happens when he starts opening his windows.
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Life isn't so great for people on the other side of the IHOP either, they have become the biggest blight on the block I can remember in many years.
The noise level in the early mornings...4am to 6am has increased dramatically as loud, obnoxious, and dangerous looking customers gather out front, people that are driving there from outside the area...as recent crimes highlight they are not attracting drunk hipsters, but thugs and criminals.
Maybe the suburban Douchebags who love that we now have an IHOP should take note. Keep the chains out of the village. Suburban Mediocrity is the mortal enemy of NYC. We came here to get away from that crap, and these douchebags and their ilk who are all corporate toadies want IHOPS, Subways, Starbucks, Sportsbars in our neighborhood. Please go back to where you came from and quit contaminating the once great Downtown NYC! These are the most uncool people that have come to NYC in over 100 years, please go away!
@ anon 10:30
Whatever happened to the "bouncer" that IHOP was hiring to patrol weekend crowds? That story got such big play when they opened... but I'm not sure that IHOP ever actually hired anyone for that role.
They should rename it, ISLOP.
"We came here to get away from that crap, and these douchebags and their ilk who are all corporate toadies want IHOPS, Subways, Starbucks, Sportsbars in our neighborhood."
I hate to say it but this IS what the neighborhood is now. It's not going to get better. I'm moving out.
Bummer.
25% of old people complain and fixate over nothing in every building in manhattan I'm not so sure there's really an issue here.. I'm sure these people are old.. this is why rent control sucks these people will just feel threatened by new development and bitch forever or about something else and NEVER move..
Metro did a story on this today, thanks to EV Grieve and its readers for the comments included. http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/1139204--ihop-bacon-smell-continues-to-plague-east-village
Anyone talking to IHOP management or calling 311?
Buried source link, re-hash of someone else's writing, no real journalism. I wouldn't expect anything else from Gothamist. Thanks for keepin' it real, EVG!
I dined at IHOP on Sunday afternoon. I had never patronized one during my suburban childhood, and having been an EV resident for over a decade, I looked at it with both disdain and curiosity. What I found inside were some delicious pancakes and a lot of working families. The smell sucks for 15th St residents. The invasion of chain stores with their mediocre food and cookie-cutter design sucks for the neighborhood. But you know what else sucks, banks, fro-yo joint and pricey artisanal something-or-other establishments patronized by the overly entitled. There are countless stories about the disappearing middle class and widening income gap in this country, and it's playing out right here in the neighborhood. If I can't hope for quality, middle-of-the-road establishments, I'd rather have a mix of the high and low to keep the neighborhood balanced.
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