Why Does New York City Smell So Bad? - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2019
- New York City has always been described as filthy and smelly with trash everywhere. But, how did New York develop these characteristics? It began with the original urban planning back in the 1800's. Cheddar explains...
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I worked in NYC for 10 years. I remember getting off the plane in Asheville on the tarmac to visit my parents for Thanksgiving and wondering to myself, "Gee whiz, what is that sweet smell in the air?" It was fresh air.
Damn bro 😔
Pick ur head up
NC🙌
That's Asheville for you. No sweeter air anywhere on earth.
Memorable
Generations from now will look at the habit of leaving trash on the sidewalk the same way we look at how people used to throw their waste out the window in ancient times.
Or poop out the window in medieval times.
@@allocater2 that's what I meant by waste
We don't have Generations
"Generations from now"?
In our current generation, and even the one before it, as long as you're not a New Yorker or trailer trash - you already equate this habit to throwing waste out of the window.
I hope so, for the sake of our future as a species
“I don’t care if the due date is in 4 years I’m still waiting until the last second to do it”
????
They put the "pro" on procrastination. 😂😂
I became pregnant just after moving to New York. We lived there 5 months. Everytime I opened my window I smelled trash and weed and cigarettes. It was disgusting and didn't help that I had morning sickness. So glad we moved
the weed I can deal with not everything else you mentioned
Even the smell cant afford to live in Manhattan anymore.
inflating like the rise of more homeless people
Too too funny.
Hilarious 😂😄😝
Very true. Cause I never smell anything... unless I'm in New Jersey
@@anthonymckinley1380a lot of the smell moved to asia in the '80s
The first time I visited New York I was like "What the hell? Why is there garbage everywhere?". This answers the question. Thank you.
Same here. First time I went was 1987 and the first thing I noticed was the garbage. It's still an excellent tourist destination because of its history.
Unbelievable mismanagement that's the answer.... Oh good old classical blue cities with a corrupt nearly functioning government.... What a classic...
It isn't exactly helped by the take out culture and quantity over quality shopping that dominates modern Western shopping. The garbage could easily be halved by a different consumption pattern.
@@donotlike4anonymus594 no, actually. the department of sanitation is one of the most efficient departments in all of new york city’s government. it’s well funded, and they most definitely do not miss pick up often. i’m guessing you’re not speaking with any relevant knowledge or experience of your own. and that’s okay.
Haha I thought the same thing the first time I went to New York City. There’s garbage everywhere!
I'm just glad I'm not crazy lmao. My parents took me on vacation to NYC when I was a kid and I was practically choking from the stench half the time while my parents acted like nothing was wrong
I liked the smell because an apartment in NYC smelled way worse it had so much dust the air I was greatfull for.
@@insectbite1714 Christ I don’t even want to imagine how bad that place smells.
queens, ny don't smell thaaaat bad
I had the exact same experience, but we were visiting New Orleans at the time.
All piss and vomit and trash juice. Great america not.
_Basically this taught us that copying someone else's work is the key to success and procrastination_
and also failure to complete de task correctly
This video went on the biggest tangent that by the end I forgot what made New York smell so bad
No alley ways to storage the trash, no modern city plannings, like Barcelona or.. the other city.
Going into detail about what brought New York to its current state is the only way to explain why it smells bad.
It is because none of the explanations she gave, does actually make the city smell bad. I have been living here for 19 years, and I can tell you that she is absolutely wrong. She just used a catchfrase to lure viewers.
Jailton Nascimento is it because you live there?
@@jailtonnascimento7482 SO true. I've been to New Your but I can honestly say that it doesn't smell bad. It is incredibly noisy (I live in a smaller city) but it definitely doesn't smell bad.
When I went to New York I didn’t really notice a smell until it started raining. During summer. Nothing quite like the smell of warm trash juice.
Ewwwww
Those juices smells like rotten dead human flesh
@@almightyziz looks like you know a thing or two
It’s called dumpster juice in NY 😂
@@a_a7287 😵
I remember going there for my job.
Coming from New Zealand it was a completely different experience
I remember thinking that my bag must of gotten dipped in something but the smell wouldn't go away.
hahahahaha
@Sapnap Why?
Aw hell nah 😭
Im from New Zealand too and I arrived in New York a few days ago and I wondered what the flying f*ck is that horrible smell lmao 💀😂
Was in Barcelona and they have the same problem. A city without allys. Their solution, they put dumpsters out on the street for everyone to use. I felt kind of dumb asking my airbnb host where garbage goes but apparently each block has two dumpsters. They are really nice looking dumpsters too. They take up what would normally be a parking spot on the street.
Thats way better than New York
what you guys need are more trees like honestly
Period
True but Manhattan could use more trees less buildings
Dee you’re underestimating how difficult that would be. Trees take YEARS to grow to even a small size. You can just put a big tree somewhere you have to plant a small one and then maybe in 10-20 years it’ll grow nice and large, but who knows what the streets will look like then and what changes might happen. The tree would have to be of a well thought out choice of species to accommodate the weather, trash, piss, water resources and sunlight. Trees are also sometimes dangerous in a big city because the wind blows strong here and I’ve seen many houses demolished by trees that’s have been there for years. Also many people around my parts have gotten their cars, roof, windows ruined by large branches falling during strong wind. Power lines may also interfere with the branches causing a neighborhood black out. Some people even get killed by large branches falling on them. The city has so many people so packed together that the chances of people dieing from such things are a lot higher. So it’s not so simple as to just plant trees. Tho I agree with you it would look pretty it’s just not an easy job
Central Park: Am I a joke to you?
@@Dee-xb9mt I love buildings, and NYC needs bigger, taller ones! Ones that look more and more Futuristic
New York : smells real bad
San Francisco: hold my homeless person
Lol I thought the same thing when she said, "why does NYC smell like pee" it is the same reason San Francisco smells like poo. Both cities have tons of homeless that use the streets like a giant toilet.
@@JR-gp2zk Manhattan doesn't have that many homeless people though. Not nearly San Francisco levels at least.
Nicely done
Haha... not funny
😆
It’s good to know that the problems in this city begin and end with landlords seeking maximum profits going back to the 1800s.
Not land lords, corrupt new York politicians. Been there since day one still here today
@@PaendaTube It is absolutely the landlords, they're the ones incentivizing the corrupt politicians by shoving money in their pockets to let them do what they want in the first place.
Average rent in NYC has gone up *20%* THIS YEAR since January. Why? Who the fuck knows. Because people moved out because of Covid, I guess? It's definitely not like renters have more money. The average cost of a shitty one bedroom apartment should not be $2800 and it's felt down the line in every single aspect of life in New York City. Restaurants are charging exorbitant prices compared to pre-Covid, which was already insanely expensive compared to the national average, just to stay alive-and why do they have to do this? Because the landlords are raping the restaurant owners. Politicians are not the ones shaking down businesses to replaced with banks or *NOTHING* because apparently empty buildings are a tax write off.
They're heartless monsters, and have been eating away at the communities here for longer than I've been alive, and it's only accelerated. The evil of New York City politicians is paltry compared to the landlords, and much of that political evil is directly from said landlords.
@@TheLordGojira Maybe it has something to do with all the fucking money we just printed.
@@particleman5893 lol yep
@@particleman5893 no it doesn't. whatever money that gets printed, they take because they can. as long as they are in power, they will always stifle growth.
Grow trees and plants, save the earth and respect nature🌿🍃
Ahh, garbage, the smell of a NYC summer. Anytime I smell it it brings me back to my childhood.
lol same, still love my city tho
Ew
I ❤️ NYC
Facts
Bina don’t forget dogs peeing in every damn spot
The smelliest is not garbage it’s human waste and piss.
Angel lmao fr
those drunktard vomiting and pissing everywhere
Thank our mayor
lmfaoo fr tho
Agreed nasty lazy ass homeless/drink/high people pissing all over the place
Went to NYC in September 2019 and one of the most powerful memories I have is the smell of piss that made up all my time outside. I was in Japan at the height of summer and some Tokyo streets smelled like sewage but overall NYC was waaaay worse.
Some of the more compact Tokyo streets smell rank. It's just the nature of large cities. They dump their garbage out in the morning on the sidewalk there also.
It’s always u people wit yugioh pictures and anime names that complain
@@Mor3mul4h718 Thank god they stay & remain in the boring american suburbs. Because it's what they are. Boring.
@@realityqueen3173 No wonder they live in the suburbs, NYC has been gentrified so you're left with rich hipsters or people too poor to leave the city. Everyone else had to move. Rent is absurd.
@@swiftrealm i concur
I have always wondered if they really leave the trash on the sidewalks just like I seen in the movies and this video just confirmed that! Thank you!
These people know why they have a pest, rodant, and odor problem but they continue the cycle that only worsens the city.
Q: Why does NYC smell bad?
A: 9 million farters.
Zed Williams pretty much is what they are
Oh no not CLIMATE CHANGE lol gotta stop eating humans! (Joking)
True! When 9 million people fart at once, the odor is unbearable.
NYC is a shithole.
Zed Williams Plus all the tourists
Now I understand why "Smelly Cat" is from NY...
😹😹 FRIENDS
😂 🙌
Phoebe. 😂
🤣😂🤣😂💀
Oohhh smellyyyy caaat...... whaaaattt have theeeyyy beennn feedin youuuu!!
When I was a child we lived in a village on the West Coast of South Africa. There was a fish factory and on certain days, especially on misty days, the most horrid smell came out of a very high chimney. This smell would hang over the village for a few days at a time. Strangely I got used to it and could not understand why visitors would always go on about it
6:32 not only Barcelona. In every single town in Spain we got the green dumpster (for glass), yellow (plastic, cans and tetrabrick), blue (cardboard and paper, excluding sanitary paper). Then there is some have the brown (only organic material) plus the grey (the rest of the stuff).
That's the previous system. Now they are implementing a more selective system, without public dumpsters. Public workers install a metallic plate in front of your block. Those plates have a hook where you hang the bag. The trash truck cames at night. Garbage is scheduled for each day: Mondays paper, Tuesday organic etc.
"cuz yo' mama lives there" was the answer I was hoping to find
Thank you !
Yurrrrrrr
Harr harr
When I was a kid there, NYC had slaughterhouses that would keep their floors clean and safe by covering them with sawdust. When it got dirty they would sweep it out to the curb. When the blood-and-offal-infused sawdust started stewing in the heat with all the car exhaust, an unpleasant but not particularly offensive odor was produced. The smell was pervasive, and was the distinctive aroma of New York City back in the day.
You know. I always thought the USSR was bad. I still think the '50ies was pretty shit. But damn, I'm starting to think that compared to most USA dwellers, and especially people who are cursed to live in big cities.. it was an amazing place to be. Western Europe sounds like utopia compared to Murica.
@@Kareszkoma Did you live in the USSR?
@@Pao234_ Ye? Well not all of it. It ended in 1989. We escaped with Polan in the same time.
@@Kareszkoma Oh nice, how long did you live there for?
@@Pao234_ .....My.. My whole life? I did work abroad, and stuff, but I still live here? I'm not from the dark communism era, or romania if thats what you mean. These countries are not unliveable or anything. Where would I be living?
"You've got a ruler?" - "Great, I've got an idea" ..that's how the laziest homework ever came to be.. lol
Thanks for the very informative and interesting history lesson 👍 great work, cool video 😎👍
Title is misleading: It should be "Why does Manhattan smell so bad".
Title isn’t misleading, bronx queens all the boroughs have garbage day
@@brendiball68 But with the distinct exceptions of certain neighborhoods they don't smell.
Gabriel Russell Long Island city
Well, it's supposed to be the United States, not Manhattan.
In Beijing, you can find two pairs of public restrooms in less than 40 meters, while in NYC, no more than 40 public restrooms exists in the entire city (note that the restrooms in airports, in bus terminals and in restaurants are not public but a part of the service you bought, albeit many of them just let anyone in). Not every public restroom in Beijing is well maintained and clean enough, but if you take a look at the top 10% restrooms in Beijing, you still get a statistics that is overtaking any US cities in both quality and quantity (density, availability, per capita share, etc.). I have found stinky marijuana smell and stinky urine smell all over 34 street many times, not to mention garbage smell.
So it is not at all surprising the NYC should be smelly. It would be surprising if it is not.
18th Century Planners: "But what about alleys and waste removal?"
"We wont be around then to worry about it"
2020: this video
19th century*
@@eliterager9241 No, 18th too.
@@Meitary It's sad USA equates right wing scum acting as puppets of rich with all 'politicians'. Left wing ones actually listen to science and try to solve problems instead of just deregulating stuff meant to keep rich psychopaths and polluters in check and stealing public money all the time
@@KuK137 Nonsense. Left wing societies like the USSR were so polluted that the Volga would routinely catch on fire.
Dany Fairuzy or, you know, they believe that human beings are not responsible for the majority of the climate change happening, or that the climate change is happening at levels that are far beyond normal. What people like you can’t wrap your head around, is that people might not believe your nonsense. But all you think, is that they believe you, but don’t care.
My teenage kid visited NYC with me a couple of summers ago. Everytime we came back to our apartment after going out he would remove his shoes bby the door, strip completely, put all his clothes in the laundry basket & have a shower - no matter the time of day. He said he always felt filthy after going out in the City & didn't want to bring all that nastiness into our home.
It was said that the smell of Medieval Prague alone was enough to ward off any invading army.
When I see a old metal trashcan, I always think of Tom and Jerry.
Hahaha why is that so? Same thing comes into my fucking mind
Why?
I think of my ex
Garbage pails
I think of Oscar the Grouch. I always wondered what it was like in that trash can. I think it had a hole that went underground to a big living area or maybe I just imagined that.
Because I shamelessly fart in public.
E D oh your that guy
Nice
How dare you sir. Think of the children!
I thought I was the only one.
Fast food capital of the world. Unhealthy and disgusting, no wonder it smells🍟🍟🍕🍕🍔🍔
I visited NYC for the first time last year. The smell was completely unexpected, I literally did not imagine it to smell like that and inspite of my research before visiting, no one talked about it. It's the thing that has kept me from wanting to go back the most. So odd that it is hailed for being a classic city with elegance but has such a terrible smell.
It’s gotten to the point that I’d rather live in Texas/California than be anywhere near NYC.
Since when is having a trash can on the street "Revolutionary"???
To corrupt new York politicians they have to call it that so the dumb residents don't realize they are getting played
When somebody has it , it is not revolutionary. But when new york has it it's revolutionary: Yankee logic
The City of London (as in the Square Mile) doesn’t have many bins since the Provos put bombs in them.
In Lisbon the trash is picked up everyday (except Sunday), half the days are normal trash and the other half is recyclable trash.
The trash is picked up during the night and people put the trash on the street after 20h.
It's a very effective system. The city is mostly clean and does not smell.
oh i love you Portugal, greets from Germany.
@R RQ but Portugal's capital do not smell like shit xd
Hmm portugal is third world? Are you confusing Portugal with brazil
@@jayfawn8478 Brazil has a future unlike Portugal
Final Countdown Brazil is the laughing stock of the world, together with USA
Then why "can't" they put big bins right on those sidewalks in the same space as the bags take up?
or like pick up the trash very early or late when the sun isnt cooking the trash?
They're probably picking it up at those times and all day, @@correctionguy7632. If you only wait until very late, then the trash will be there "cooking" before that. If you, only pick up earlier, then the same thing, but just after instead of before. Or if at both times, then that sits there in between. I wonder how many times per day they have a pickup. But having a bin out there with a way for a truck to access it for a moment seems like it should work, since a truck stops there periodically anyway. So I would need someone with more knowledge to show me why it shouldn't.
They can't put the bins on side streets cause will be always there and will take a lot of room on sidewalks, the trash bags are there for a day until they get picked
I think people could and should get used to the bins being there, because it seems that they could walk around them, and this would be the new normal, @@cata_s2020. But I suppose I would have to try living like that to really have a good idea of it.
Correction Guy it takes them half the day to pick up all the garbage, the city is huge and for 20-22 hours a day there’s heavy traffic
Lived there for 3 years. One thing I noticed is that everyone puts their garbage on the street. Turns out the real estate is so expensive that most places don't have allys where the dumpsters would be.
I lived next to a McDonald's and they didn't have a dumpster. They would put bags and bags of garbage on the curb every night. Once a homless guy tore all the bags open. There was crap everywhere. All on a little Manhattan street. Another fun thing is that if it snows a lot on garbage day, the trash gets buried and it pretty much stays there until spring.
I grew up watching Friends, idolizing their NYC lifestyle. I've been a few times as an adult... between the stench, lack of accessibility for the disabled (me), lack of green space (something I'm used to but had no idea I valued until visiting), and inability to see what's around before you reach it due to tall buildings--versus the suburbs where you can see many places all around, easy driving to get there, and parking, etc... oof, NYC is just not for me.
Downtown Los Angeles also smells like piss. Reading the comments it seems that most major cities do as well.....
I think this is mostly because of an unmanageable homelessness crisis in downtown LA. Unlike other city centers, (e.g. Manhattan), downtown LA actually doesn't have very many residents. It's more office buildings than residential apartments (though this is rapidly changing with new development), and it tends to be residents that cause the stench. But then that raises the question, if residential density isn't really any higher than the rest of the city, then why does it smell so much worse? This, I think, is because downtown has a particular problem with homelessness, way more so than even other city centers. So it's not that there are an obscene total number of residents, it's that a huge portion of the residents that are there are living outside in unsanitary conditions, relieving themselves where they can. It's a humanitarian crisis that LA seems unable to manage.
@Dr.Science To be fair, I've been to European cities, and they're often just as smelly.
@@amvin234 well said sir.
Not Chicago
@@abibnoor Chicago smells like bullets 😂
Title change... "Why doesn't New York City have alleys?"
Because we have plenty of them
there's no room. It's an overpriced sardine can full of assholes.
@@elizabethbennet4791 so true
That's a Chicago thing
The whole place is an alley
I went to NYC in 2000 and didn't really notice the smell, although the stench of horse manure around central park was notable. I understand that this used to be even more of an issue before cars when the streets were awash with the stuff.
Yup, I the 2000's and 2010's it smelled great! I remember it.
Great history lesson. I wish this was a 20 minute video!
Growing up in New York it was always so weird seeing alleys on TV. Even today Hollywood is uttetly incapable of understanding the fact of their nonexistance. The blocks are not donuts. It is building all the way through.
Filmmakers please understand, there is no such thing as "behind" a restaurant.
New York does have alley ways. They just arent in the majority. I mean, otherwise they just would be in movies. Even then they arent shown as behind but next to the building. If youve been to NY you would know this
@@voli293 I lived there for 25 years. Nope, no alleys. There are a few gloomy looking one way streets that movies and tv shows use as alleys, but these are normal residential streets complete with all the services and features of any other street.
@@ladybug-vc9oh Ah, definitely don't have any of that. If there is space between 2 buildings we immediately fill it with more buildings. Seriously we have 10ft wide brownstones.
@@Christopher_Gibbons Nah up in the heights we have alleyways. But they're like 10 feet wide, partially underground, and between the buildings. But they're still nowhere near like the alleys you see on TV.
@@voli293 I think what you are referring to are driveways. There's plenty of those between buildings and especially businesses that need access for large trucks.
The Big Apple
Better nickname= The Loaded Diaper
I love a bit of loded diper
In Beijing, you can find two pairs of public restrooms in less than 40 meters, while in NYC, no more than 40 public restrooms exists in the entire city (note that the restrooms in airports, in bus terminals and in restaurants are not public but a part of the service you bought, albeit many of them just let anyone in). Not every public restroom in Beijing is well maintained and clean enough, but if you take a look at the top 10% restrooms in Beijing, you still get a statistics that is overtaking any US cities in both quality and quantity (density, availability, per capita share, etc.). I have found stinky marijuana smell and stinky urine smell all over 34 street many times, not to mention garbage smell.
So it is not at all surprising the NYC should be smelly. It would be surprising if it is not.
Yes haha
Gary Zhao The pollution in Beijing is basically PM2.5, and as far as I know human nose cannot detect any smell of PM2.5. Maybe dogs can? But I think that's way off-topic as this video is about the smell that humans can tell.
Btw, comparing to Euro-American cities during the same development stage the air in Beijing could be called perfect, nevertheless comparing with any developed country it's still awful.
虞海 the wisdom an Asian carries in a RUclips comment is astounding... I feel enlightened
My smelliest memory of New York City was the overwhelming smell of dead fish in Chinatown.
I'm driving through Brooklyn NY in a 65ft tractor trailer on Linden/Canton ave. Literally thought of home(Chicago) by just how it smelled and by how packed it was.
Wow! Nice video. I just subscribed. Thanks RUclips algorithm for sending me here. Btw...why not link up the spots to buy the books based on your extensive research. I’m always looking to expand my library.
eating food while watching a disgusting video, checked. lol
Your just weird
@@knockhello2604 He has a just weird?
@@wealthiness you're
Same though.
@@knockhello2604 Yeah, eating food is weird as fuck bro, who even eats food in 2019? Like, that's outdated.
The answer to this question is LOTS of homeless people peeing and pooping 💩 in corners of building. You’re welcome guys
-Queens, NYC native
You forgot the third "p". That too.
Anonymike what’s the third P?
That’s bullshit
@@joby92 Slang term for vomit. Also has a verb form "to p#3".
@@anonymike8280 -uke?
I found this by accident, and I really enjoyed the Video and info.
thank you for this!
me:why new york has no alleys?
comissioners: because i want *M O N E Y*
gibe de mony
It's that why we don't have a real life Batman?
@@bri1085 Gotham City is in southern New Jersey.
Reasons:
1-Trash
2-old hobos
3-New York itself
5. Over populated
but i dont have toast
4.profit??
The people from India love the smell of New York, they say it reminds them of home, especially Chennai.
😂
The minute you land in Chennai, you're hit by a stench of sewage.
I was travelling to Florida via I95 in July of 1993 and passing through Georgia the smell hit me like a bus, rotting vegetation is how I would describe it. I lived in Washington DC I emigrated there from the Midlands in the UK, when i went home to visit that was the first thing I noticed how clean and fresh the air smelled as appose to Washington smelling like a swamp.
NYC smells for me, like rust metal and burning charcoal...
Gatsby?
honestlyyy
Like sin and brimstone
@@irulan9161 Like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Born and raised here so I’m used to it 🤢🤤
In Amsterdam, they have giant metal underground garbage disposal units. They get cleared out at the end of the month and the streets are always clean.
In Sweden, too.
A great video explanation! And I'm ashamed to say it, but I didn't understand what alleyways were for until now.
I swear that air right outside of the Plaza on 5th smells expensive. It is such a weird thing.
I visited NYC in August 1990. Yes, one thing I noticed right away was the smell. Seems it has not changed much in 30 years. I also saw a parked van covered with stinking garbage. A bit of neighbourhood tension! A very interesting city and hopefully will visit it again. 😀
New York smells bad cause it has 3 trees
central park: am i a joke to you?
@@alexm566 Yes, Central Park yes you are.
@@happydee6950 Central Park isn't real. They surrounded it in 5 G so the trees can not produce clean cool air.
@@insectbite1714the 5g produces sound waves that are not heard by the human ear but these sound wave mess with tree causing them to be mind controlled by the Chinese government that plan to choke out the Americans!
@@namename1379 That could also be true, their trees are fake otherwise they would shrivel. Also they hid 5 G in my old schools playground you can clang on the metal and it sounds different and the metal with 5 G in it on the playground is also always heated up and sounds not hollow. The 5 G antennas on my old school above the nurses office is just depopulation and the trees on the playgrounds are being torn down after 5 G wiped then all out by now... *I AM NEVER GOING TO NEW WORLD ORDER CITY EVER AGAIN NOR WILL I EVER GO TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IT IS A TRAP*
"You can smell the shit from 5 miles away.."
is that a line from lady olenna of Game of thrones ? XD
I’ve been to NYC dozens of times over the past two decades and I never thought it smelled bad. I’ve been to all boroughs except only driven through Staten Island. However, Chinatown on a hot summer day can be nasty, but only on the blocks that have fish markets.
NY City - Smell so bad !
Indian Cities - Hold my mango lassi !!!
RahimMRyan Indian cities make American cities looks livable
damn really lol i feel pity on you when i myself living in India haven't noticed much of a greater problem regarding smell. Atleast in the area where i live.
I am sure there are many like me :D but ye its smelly when you are out of your own shell xD
@@dharmang Mumbai smells like NYC on a warm summers day
@@Sp1n1985 Try going to Indore. Very clean place
Where exactly? I have been to three metropolitan areas of India - Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and except parts of Mumbai, none of them smell bad. The tier 2 cities and villages barely have any garbage either. India has one of the lowest humans to garbage ratio.
visited NYC three days ago and it stank. I talked about it a bunch i guess google overheard me enough to puch this video into my stream.... lol gotta love it
I hate "coincidences" like that 😂
Black slime/mold growing on the wall tiles at Chambers St. IRT station!
Hong Kong is my favourite city ‘aroma’ esp near the harbour and TST lol
What is missing here apparently is a serious plan about waste reduction and recycling. First of all separating organic waste from other components would reduce smell (paper, plastics, metals, don't smell that much, while the organic part is what smells the most). Also boosting shops selling bulk products would help a lot. But it seems like one of the richest city in the world is stuck in the seventies way of waste management, as the answer seems to be "well, you know, we don't have alleys..."
New York City: “America’s Toilet Bowl”
San Francisco is even worse
qjtvaddict Nah
Yikes!
new orleans smells worse honestly
No it is not
Great vid new sub 👌🏾
New York needs sealed dumpsters. Could take up a few parking spaces and maybe extend underground.
Agreed
This would be great and reduce rodents and smell.
@@ok-hg6rh True. Good point.
Or they could start copying Amsterdam again and use underground garbage containers that are lifted up by the garbage trucks
that be hard with the metro
take the E train after 11pm and you'll become a connoisseur of different homeless ppl smell
lol true
As Someone who's never been to New York, I never knew it smelled so bad
It don’t they draggin it just stay outta China town
Thanks so much for the laugh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a person who lives in NJ, I can only quote a band called F.E.A.R “New York’s alright if you like saxophone.”
In Amsterdam - where there are no alleys and also loads of canals - they recess the garbage storage into the street, you chuck it into a hatch. It's very clever.
Video: “In New York they put trash bags on the sidewalks.”
Me: “Why can’t they store it underground or in basements like we do here in Sweden?”
Video: “A solution could be something like Sweden’s underground storage.”
Me: “I know right!”
I would imagine that the NY subway system would make that a much more complicated task.
@@cthomas025 But subways are super deep underground, and there are subways in Stockholm too, and a lot of other things underground, like power lines, water lines, car parks etc. We basically store the trash on basement level.
I am always surprised when people think that solutions that work in Sweden would work in countries that have the same amount of people in a city than in all of Sweden 🤔
@@dagliocchibui Technically you're right, but in this case we're talking about storing trash on the sidewalks vs storing trash on basement level, and storing trash on the sidewalks must take up more space for the people going on and about, and it also smells when sitting in the sun, while trash stored at basement level won't bother the citizens at all, except for maybe having to take an extra stair to throw away the trash depending on how it's implemented.
What a beautiful example of just how practical and amazing central planning Is.... Hhh
Watching this video I'm so thankful I live in the wide open west.
KKonaW
Nothing else like the fresh breathe of air you get while strolling down Canal St 😭
“We don’t have alleys” is such a nonsense excuse to pile your garbage on the sidewalks. Plenty of cities do underground communal dumpsters with pickups multiple times per week and have no issues with garbage piling up.
agreed
@3:00 I'm surprised the widths of roads in NY were 60 feet and 50 feet. As a former British colony, I would have thought NY would have been laid out using road widths of 66 feet, which is the length of a Gunter's chain. A chain was a measuring tool which was 66 feet long and subdivided into 100 links. Chains had been used in England since at least 1620, so they should have been available for surveyors in the NY colony.
My city, Winnipeg, Canada, was surveyed using Gunter's chains. Road allowances were 33 feet across (1/2 chain), major streets were 66 feet (1 chain), arterial routes were 132 feet (2 chains) and back lanes were 16.5 feet (1/4 chain, later simplified to 16 feet even). Roads were laid out parallel to the original French "long lot" system, in which farms had narrow frontages on riverbanks, and which extended inland perpendicular to the rivers for 2 miles. So, in Winnipeg, you'll see long blocks of parallel roads running perpendicular to rivers, intersected by cross streets 33 feet wide, and serviced with back lanes. The units of measurement have changed --- we use the metric system now --- but vestiges of the Gunter's chain are everywhere.
Vestiges of the Gunter's chain are found everywhere in the USA, too. The Saxons used to measure their fields using "furlongs" of 660 feet. The chain was defined as 66 feet long, or 1/10 of a furlong. A mile was defined as 8 furlongs. So a mile in America is (66 feet/chain) X (10 chains/furlong) X (8 furlongs/mile) = (5280 feet/mile). So if you ever wanted to know why a mile is 5280 feet long, now you know.
but why 66 feet to begin with
@@couriersix8294 That's a good question.
Apparently the name "furlong" comes from the old English words furh ("furrow") and lang ("long"), and represented the length of the furrow in one acre of a plowed field. One source claims a "furrow long" was the distance that could be ploughed by an ox without a rest.
The length of a furlong was eventually standardized as 660 feet (= 220 yards = 40 rods) around AD 1300, but I don't know why the Saxons decided on a furlong of 660 feet in the first place. My guess is some long forgotten plowman paced out the length of the furrow he & his oxen had made, using his feet...
Communal bins for the win! Greetings from Spain. There is nowhere alley's in Spain and we do not pile up our trash on street
Do one of your cities have 10 million people in it?
@@DoomFinger511 Madrid has 3.1 million, and the greater Madrid 6.4 million. But if it works with 3 million, it will work with 10 million.
@@ankeuttajaespanjassa How? Madrid is literally over 10 times bigger then Manhattan with a 3rd of the population. It's 603 square kilometers while Manhattan is only 56. That's the problem with Manhattan, there isn't enough physical space to accommodate the large population. It's on an island so there is no where to go but up. A single 50 story building could house over 1000 people in it.
@@DoomFinger511 by taking the space from cars! Also over here we do not have one bin, but five type of bins as you are required to recycle your waste. If we can fit all of those on the streets, I think New York can do it also. Google "the secrets to recycling in Spain"
@@ankeuttajaespanjassa They already do. Cars can only park on one side of the street, that alternates every day. That's how they are able to clean the streets. Also it's illegal in NYC to throw out cans, paper, etc. with the trash. It has to be separated into a different bag for recycling. They also banned plastic bags and plastic straws. I googled recycling in Spain. It said Spain ranked 14th in the EU at recycling with only 33% of trash recycled. Germany and Austria were at the top. Still, were talking about a Spanish city with a much lower population and 10 times more physical space.
I thought it was from everyone farting at the same time.
Now I know the three guys who invented the word procrastination. Thanks.
So proud that one of the Commissioners was of Dutch descent.
LOL 'Gouverneur Morris' I thought that was his title (governor) but it turns out that was his first name.
His mother was from French Huguenot family that moved to Holland so that makes him fractionally Dutch too.
It was worse in the 70s and 80s, remember that
garbage strike!
So you see with asshole Democrats in charge nothing ever changes for the better
@@jd291 Yep, the Democrats always left to fix all the stupid shit Republicans fuck up
@@kebab3703 NYC hasn't been Republican since the 1930s. Find a different argument
@@parzival9651 List of Republican governor's in New York after the 1910's, for your dumbass
-Charles Seymour Whitman 1915-1918
-Nathan L. Miller 1921-1922
-Thomas E. Dewey 1943-1954
-Nelson Rockefeller 1959-1973
-Malcolm Wilson 1973-1974
-George Pataki 1995-2006
I've lived in New York City for years, so I'm nose blind for the most part. I only smell something if it's on the same block.
Same, I mean if I’m right next to a pile of garbage, I’ll smell it, but I’m general it doesn’t bother me too much
Same
Imagine owning one of those five acre plots to this day? Wow.
Ooh. All that lovely bin juice left behind after the bin men pick up the bags must smell lovely.
0:30 I'm pretty sure the subtitles wanted to say 'olfactory' not 'old factory' lol
lol
imagine what it was like when there were thousands of horses clopping around ☹🤧🤢
Just go to Central Park to get that experience.
Regarding all things smelly in NYC, I lived there for most of my life. On a hot summer day when the asphalt is so hot it's pliable, the smell of rain steaming up from the streets and roofs may be my favorite smell. It instantly transports me to my childhood when I'd have summers off with nothing to do but play in the streets and parks. And the myriad of smells in the city is one of the great things about it, yes even the garbage. Another smell that has largely disappeared is the smell of incinerating garbage coming from large apartment buildings. I lived in a smaller pre-war apartment building in the East Village and most of the windows opened onto an air shaft adjoining the large building. I'd often smell the incinerating garbage as it was sucked down the air shaft and under my apartment which was directly over the alley entrance to the back of the building. Yes, there are alleys in NYC, but they are generally very narrow providing access to the services coming into the building in the basement. In fact garbage cannot be put out on the sidewalk more than some number of hours (between 12 and 24?) before pickup which is generally every 2-4 days depending on the population density of the local area. So no, garbage is not stored on the sidewalks all the time, just for the hours before it's picked up. Before that it's generally stored in a garbage room in the basement of the building, or if the building has some area in front like a smaller building with a gated area in front.
I went to New York for the first time two months ago after living in chicago my whole life. I really don’t get the hype. Everyone was so mean and wouldn’t talk to you and I don’t get the lack of alleys. It was disgusting and I could never live there
When she says "today Google" my phone thinks I'm saying "ok Google" and closes RUclips.
ill be damned if i take slander from a goddamn resident of boston
1:00 thats why we have here in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands have underground garbage containers
When my sister visited NYC 10 years ago she said it was a weird combination of smells, not just garbage. She said she could smell something odd when she passed by restaurants and other food places, and she could smell it on food and couldn't eat it. Only McDonald's didn't have that smell so she eat there. We are from Europe and she wasn't used to US cousine, she always said it smelled like some kind of cooking oil or something that was repulsing for her. But she didn't smelled it anywhere else in US, so who knows!
McDonald’s? LMAOOOOO. Came all the way to a city with literally any type of authentic cuisine you can think of to eat McDonald’s. Well no wonder people’s perception of NYC is the way it is, y’all don’t actually look up anything to do besides going to Times Square and Century 21 😂
Maybe what comes from the ground/sewers