Last month Adam Kuban Tweeted, "The Astoria Toast Smell is possibly a thing—Gothamist should investigate. Woke up this morning to it." In Astoria, residents even started tracking the toast smell back in 2006. The thing is, we were smelling it in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, too... and then we smelled it in Manhattan, meaning this thing has traveled through at least three boroughs. After it didn't return for a few days, however, we decided to move on—until this morning, when it returned.

Here at Gothamist HQ we're getting strong toast scents wafting through the windows every hour or so, lasting about 5 to 10 seconds each time, then disappearing. One Gothamist staffer pinpointed it down to smelling specifically like "toasted English muffins."

Please let us know if you have smelled toast around town, and if so, when and where. New York, this may just be our new Maple Syrup smell.