Transcript: Mysterious New York City Smell Is Fenugreek

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February 5, 2009
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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
02-05-2009
Mysterious New York City Smell Is Fenugreek

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 20:00-21:00 PM

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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Since 2005, New York City residents occasionally have been mystified by a sweet maple syrup smell that has wafted over the west side of Manhattan and beyond. Well, today, in his best Sherlock Holmes manner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid this mystery to rest.

Here's NPR's Margot Adler.

MARGOT ADLER: Whatever you may think of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he has fun doing his job, and that was clear today at a news conference where the mayor spent a full 20 minutes telling the city and the media

Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York ...

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