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.

This summer could very well be a full-on nasal assault in NYC. fotofabrika – stock.adobe.com

In fact, during the highly aromatic period from May 1 through July 31 last year, a whopping 4,093 smell complaints were logged, according to an analysis by The Post — a marked increase from the same period in 2024, which saw 3,756 calls.

In 2025, the city logged a gag-inducing total of 15,322 odor-related complaints, with categories ranging from “sewer odor” to “pigeon odor,” plus fumes emanating from “nail salons” and “food vendors.”

The top five olfactory infractions were for vehicle idling (5,381 complaints), chemical/gases and vapors (2,812), sewage…