Sickly Smell In NYC Caused By Fire In New Jersey, Authorities Say

NEW YORK, NY — If you noticed a sickly, smoky odor on your morning walk to the subway Tuesday morning, the cause was likely a fire burning miles away at a scrapyard in Newark, New Jersey.

The fire broke out late Monday at the Eastern Metal Recycling Terminal in Newark, where it continued to burn as of Tuesday morning. In a Notify NYC alert, authorities said that smoke from the fire could be seen and smelled by residents of Manhattan and the Bronx.

In fact, the odor seemed to travel further than that — as far as Astoria, Queens, and even further east in Forest Hills and College Point, according to Twitter users.

"Currently commuting home from lower Manhattan and I can still smell it by citi field," one user wrote just before 7 a.m.

"I just freaked out and called the fire department after running up and down the stairs in my building sniffing the air," wrote another user in Lower Manhattan.

No injuries have been reported from the Newark fire, according to ABC7.