Raising a stink: The Post sniffed out NYC’s smelliest neighborhoods, according to 311 complaints

Source: New York Post

Grab your noses, folks. While New York City has always been aromatic, it’s been a particularly pungent year so far, with smell complaints soaring higher than the Freedom Tower itself. With 5,332 stench reports to NYC’s non-emergency 311 hotline already this year, 2026 is shaping up to be quite a stinker — and we haven’t yet even hit the peak summer stink season.