Has anyone written to you to say there has been a burning wood smell in the East Village since this morning? I opened the windows in the back of my apartment late this morning, and I got a big whiff of the smell. I have been out for a few hours and just got home, and now my whole apartment smells like burning wood! But I don't hear or see anything in the back of the building.
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Ive been out and about the entire morning and never noticed but it IS the first day to have a distinct autumnal feel so maybe that smell can be attributed to a... fireplace!
ReplyDeleteWere you near Black Seed Bagels?
ReplyDeleteBlack Seed Bagels in full production mode?
ReplyDeleteit could be Bllack Seed Bagels, they have the same smoke problem over at their other location from their wood fired ovens. Anyone else noticing it?
ReplyDeleteI am on 12th and A, and the smell is coming from the 11th Street side of my building.
ReplyDeleteI was in Black Seed the other day. Bought 2 bagels. Neither tasted of a wood oven. In fact they tasted like frozen bagels. Terrible. All SMOKE and no mirrors.
ReplyDeleteThere is only about a thousand "wood fired" pizza places in the neighborhood, so...
ReplyDeleteI bet that smoke is coming out of Occam's Razor, the same place that keeps leaving giant bones in the middle of the bike lane. If anyone has a simple solution to this problem please let us know.
ReplyDeleteNo, it IS Black Seed Bagels. I live next door (basically) and we have been smelling it on and off since Monday, well really Sunday, since they fired up the oven for a short time on that day as well. They don't even seem to be fully operational yet and already it's a near constant odor, and some claim, toxic. Nobody from the company has come forward to address our concerns (did they install a scrubber like they failed to do at the Elizabeth Street location?). I feel a community board meeting in my future. Capitalism rules, okay? It doesn't matter how negative their business impact. I would really appreciate if someone came forward to address this potential problem responsibly. Black Seed rep? Could you speak to this odor, potential air pollution/toxins? Is this what we all have to live with now?
ReplyDeleteGood luck. We live in the Mighty Quinn's bldg & pungent smoke is our world, both inside the bldg & a surrounding 1 to 1 1/2 block radius. Two years and stinking...
DeleteI've been smelling it on 11th between A and B. It stinks and I've already called the city to complain.
ReplyDeleteWithout a local client base, which they won't have if they don't clean up their act, they may not last too long. Contact the EPA. Call 311 and make a quality of air complaint. If you can smell it, you are breathing it....it being exactly what? EPA should do an inspection of what they are burning in their ovens besides bagels.
ReplyDeleteIf you live near a wood fired oven restaurant get used to it. But if you constantly call the fire department, file complaints through the 311, and go into the restaurant and complain every day it may make a difference. By getting people to complain in my building we managed to get the obnoxious and over-prized pizza joint next door to move their chimney and make it higher. Until that happened we were getting smoked out of our apartments. Oh yeah, and a call to the fire department telling them you smell smoke certainly helps. Also complain to your city council rep's constituent representative. That can make a difference too.
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