The Stench of Summer: Yummy Yum Pee Yoo

Summer in the city stinks. Literally. As in, this heat wave has created malodorousness on 7th avenue alone that has reached noxious levels.

I want an odor advisory put out.

What I didn't know until Gothamist told me (fine, via The Wall Street Journal), is that there is actually a division of the city's Environmental Protection Agency that investigates the manifest odor complaints and hands out violations for the stinkiest perps.

God, this city likes to hand out fines! There must be a violation for every activity under the hot, smelly sun at this point. I saw roaming code violation officers on 8th Ave coalescing around an apartment building on 1st yesterday morning. Meter maids and men lurk everywhere. Go to Red Hook swimming pool and you get hectored via a nasally loudspeaker voice NOT to engage in any activities that might lead to a good time. And, please, don't crap in the pool (I thought that would be taken as a given but apparently not).

I still think we need a be a good neighbor day in this hood and maybe we should start with a community sidewalk clean up. Let's pull out the Mr. Clean (or Seventh Generation for greenies), get those lazy, entitled present and future BALLERS off their couches and put in some elbow grease. Followed by a big splashy water fight.

What say you?