NEW YORK — A mysterious natural gas-like odor hit Manhattan Monday morning, causing building evacuations from Rockefeller Center to the city's West Side, but the city's mayor said it was not dangerous.
The New York Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m., said spokesman Tim Hinchey. The city's 911 system has been flooded with calls about the smell.
"It may just be an unpleasant smell, but at this point we don't know anymore than that," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference Monday. "One thing we are very confident of is it is not dangerous, but how long and what the sources are, we just don't know."
Natural gas is a colorless, odorless gas. The chemical mercaptan is added to make it smell....
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