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Ranking NYC Subway Smells by How Hard They Made Us Reconsider Our Life Choices
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Ranking NYC Subway Smells by How Hard They Made Us Reconsider Our Life Choices

The New York City subway is many things: a cultural institution, a monument to civic dysfunction, and apparently, a scratch-and-sniff book nobody asked for. We ranked the most iconic underground odors by frequency, intensity, and sheer psychological devastation. Spoiler: the A train is not okay.

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