Trendy NYC neighborhood invaded by Greenpoint Stink and locals have savage take on promise itll soon smell better: Biggest bullst

Greenpoint residents were told they’ll soon be able to unplug their noses, but some critics say the promises have them smelling “bull.”A chemical, burning smell that has plagued the trendy neighborhood for more than a year will be cleared in the coming months, local politicians announced this week — although residents doubt the odor is going anywhere.Green Asphalt in Long Island City is working to adjust its flumes so that the so-called “Greenpoint Stink” will no longer waft over residential areas, according to Assembly member Emily Gallagher.The Long Island City plant — the first 100% recycled asphalt plant in the country — estimates its hipster neighbors will be free from the stench by mid-2025.“I’ll believe it when I see it,” one resident, who opted to remain anonymous, told The Post.The four-year Greenpointer likened the asphalt aroma to that of “burning tires” “straight chemical waste,” a putrid mixture he and his girlfriend dubbed the “Greenpoint Stink.”The couple almost never opens the windows in their Kingsland Avenue apartment — directly across Newtown Creek from the smelly plant — for fear the tainted air will slip in.They have also invested in an air purifier that is almost always running, he said.“Our air quality is not that great.

We know what it is and I, from having worked in that area, would see some mornings that there’s s–t going up in the sky,” he said of the asphalt plant.The stench first assaulted the area at the tail end of last summer, quickly adding yet another stench to the already infamously smelly neighborhood — Greenpoint routinely battles tainted air from the waste treatment plant, a plastic manufacturing site and the toxic Newtown Creek.More than 200 residents complained of the burning smell to Gallagher, whose survey led the state Department of Environmental Conservation to finger Green Ahpalt as the smelly culprit.The problem is not just the stench — asphalt fumes can cause serious ...