On Thursday July 31st at about 3pm a CSX train hauling garbage parked on the tracks in Middle Village. A strong smell of rotting garbage covered the area and the 90 degree heat only made matters worse.
Homeowners directly adjacent to the tracks off Eliot Avenue starting calling to report the stink. At about 4:15pm the train moved back to Glendale then returned later that afternoon.Photos from Juniper Park Civic Association
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People all over the world (everybody)
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Smell a stink train, stink train
People all over the world (all the world, now)
Join hands (garbage ride)
Smell a stink train (garbage ride), stink train
The next stop that we make will be soon
Tell all the folks in Glendale, and Maspeth, too
Don't you know that it's time to run or
let this train keep on smellin', stinkin' on through
Well, well
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All of you brothers over in Jamaica
Tell all the folks in Kew Gardens, and Forest Hills, too
Please don't smell this train too long
'Cause if you smell it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
Well
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People, ain't no worse smell
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Smell a stink train, stink train (makin' garbage)
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So for an entire hour and 15 minutes you smelled some garbage.
Better then having an endless caravan of stinky trucks passing through at all hours.
Perhaps if no one made any garbage, we would not have to deal with the smell at all........
what a big bunch of boo hoo hoo. the railroad was there first. you don't like it move.
The railroad may have been there first, but they were not storing garbage behind my house before.
"Better then having an endless caravan of stinky trucks passing through at all hours."
Actually, we do have that twice a week when the dept of sanitation comes around. Hey, sometimes they have a holiday and the trash sits out on the street for a week stinkin up the nabe!
"So for an entire hour and 15 minutes you smelled some garbage."
Easy to be flippant about it when it's not your backyard.
Try driving behind a municipal waste truck on the LIE or on a local street with the oozing slop dripping out of the back of the truck on a 90+ degree day. Stop your wining and get over it. The garbage belongs on the rails where it is sealed tight and quickly moved out of the area. The open cars are for construction and demolition debris--mostly odorless- wood, stone, sheetrock, etc.
An hour plus of "nose" pollution in the NY area, be ashamed of yourselves to complain. The average cesspool run in Nassau/Suffolk lasts for a bit of time longer. Grow up, and complain to your elected officials about real issues: energy development, property taxation, public services, etc.
By the way, if you can smell it, it's in the air and now inside your body.
The point is to complain BEFORE it becomes a regular problem. Maybe it was an hour and 15 minutes this week, but people who experienced it indicated it never happened before. They want to make sure it's not a regular occurrence. Get how this works?
I love you Julie.
Inka-dink, a bottle of ink. The cork fell out, and you stink. Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean - just because you kissed the girl behind the magazine.. And you are it!
The railroad nuts have invaded the board. You can tell because you never saw some of these handles before, they are defending the railroad and also defending stink. Ever been in a room with these foamers and experienced their b.o.? You'd be wishing you were smelling the garbage train instead.
LOL. Fred is a tool and doesn't know what he's talking about. Go back to your homework Freddie baby!
He may be a tool but unfortunately he speaks the truth.
"The point is to complain BEFORE it becomes a regular problem. "
But it already is a problem, just finally leaked out of the less well-to-do communities and others backyards and into YOURS. OMG!
When you consume where do you think the waste goes? It's not all rose gardens.
Solutions are not cheap, so open up your wallets!
Sure it was the train and not the bags of dog crap tossed over the fence along Eliot by all the dog walkers on their way home from the park?
Look down from the Eliot overpass and you'll see what I mean.....gross......
"But it already is a problem, just finally leaked out of the less well-to-do communities and others backyards and into YOURS. OMG!"
Since this area has had this freight line and garbage trains coming through our backyards since before any of us were born, not sure what "less well-to-do" neighborhoods you are talking about. Trains never STOPPED here full of garbage before smelling up the 'hood. That's the difference and that's why it was noticed.
It wasn't the train...Billy Bottles just blew a beer fart.
This was forwarded to me:
"Thanks for bringing this my attention. I will look into what happened and also contact CSX community affairs people. You are correct that it does no one any good to manage traffic in poorly preserved manner." - Bruce Lieberman, Anacostia
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