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Sweet Smelling Y — Brooklynian

Sweet Smelling Y

piano
piano
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Anyone else notice that sometimes there is a strong scent of sweet baking bread near the Armory YMCA? I remember a few years back there used to be a Mexican bakery across the street that emitted the same scent.

Can it be that the smell of baking bread still lingers years later? Are these ghost smells haunting the old bakery? Or is there another bakery still somewhere nearby making that smell. Anyone else notice this?

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  • brooklyngigcenter
    brooklyngigcenter
    Stop antagonizing us, LOL. :lol:
  • piano
    piano
    Agree that you smell bread or else you Philistine!
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    I still smell that over there. I was guessing there was still a bakery somewhere around there.
  • piano
    piano
    But where is it then? If there is I want to eat some of that bread. Unfortunately, I don't think there is one. I think it's lingering from the old bread shop that used to be where that new apartment building is. That's where the smell is coming from. I might have to go by tonight and snoop around. I hope you're right.

    This is the type of thing where I expect to eventually read that there is a lawsuit filed by tenants complaining about the smell.
  • enheightened
    enheightened
    We smell it all the time too! It smells like the best cinnamon toast ever. There MUST be a bakery but WHERE? Searched we have too but to no avail. There's no way that smell could be lingering it's just too phresh. I hope the source is found and I hope it's not reminiscent of the "maple syrup" shenanigans not long ago.
  • piano
    piano
    Enheightened wrote: there's no way that smell could be lingering it's just too phresh.
    Where I grew up there was an old bourbon distillery that was demolished and built over. You could smell wafts of bourbon from that place for at least 10 years. I know it sounds crazy, but I think those are ghost smells. It's a horrible tease, isn't it? Those aromas are all we have left after that damn Atkins craze.
  • enheightened
    enheightened
    That. Is. Spooky. It's hard not to believe you since we've searched it out ourselves but I'm really having a hard time believing you! Wafts of bourbon I can see plausible but fresh baked cinnamon goods? How could that warehouse full of just-out-of-the-oven smell linger? I WANT A cinnamon roll. SUCH a tease.
  • piano
    piano
    Well that is the thing that is stumping me. I thought the same thing - I could understand the bourbon lingering, but not the bread. But what other explanation could there be?
  • anniebach
    anniebach
    I notice it every time I walk home from the B67 up to where the now defunct B75 used to drop me in WT. That is 3 days a week and always going strong. New development is next to where bakery stoefront used to be. I believe ovens and some remaing properties must still exist, but are not visable from street. I just thought that they still bake there and sell the goods elsewhere.
  • jr_in_nyc
    jr_in_nyc
    Ha ha!!! The bakery is still there. It's in the building right next to the new apartment building with the rust colored garage door. Usually you'll see a large van or Hummer parked in the driveway. This is the place: http://goo.gl/maps/y7Dr

    They bake Mexican bread and then package it to sell at other locations. A few years ago, I passed by and saw the door open. I walked in and asked if they sold bread. They will sell you bread right out of the oven. If you're familiar with Mexican bread, it's very sweet and DEElicious!!! You can see what Mexican bread looks like here: http://mexicanfood.about.com/b/a/Pandulcetacos.jpg
    Unfortunately I don't think they speak English so make sure you bring a translator. You also have to either knock on the garage door, or ask to be buzzed in.

    When the scent of bread starts wafting up towards the park on 15th street, it drives me crazy!!! The last time I went in was sometime last year.
  • enheightened
    enheightened
    A ghost bakery would have been awesome but much I'm happier finding out that I can get some fresh pan dulce in the hood. Woohoo! Thanks JR.
  • jr_in_nyc
    jr_in_nyc
    Enheightened: No problem.

    OK after this post, I think I need to swing by and see if I can get in and get some bread. It's so delicious.
  • piano
    piano
    Thanks JR, I'm going to have to check it out and find that bread.
  • piano
    piano
    Hats off to this bakery for its unique way of advertising. Oh, and while we're at it can someone please tell Subway to stop fanning their bread smell outside their joints - it's quite nauseating. I'd rather suck up bus fumes.

    Anyway, I checked it out and JR is right and those are not phantom wafts of bread. I honestly did think that they were, and I'm quite excited to be wrong.The building it was in is gone and the apartment building is in its place. The garage attendant at the apartment building said it moved next door to 404 in the house that says Belmont on the top and added that at about 2:30 the smell becomes unbearable. But I think he meant that in a good way.

    A security guard at the Armory Y says he’s been over there for bread. He was drawn to it by the sirens of the olfactory. This guy smelled the bread one day and just went there and asked for it - love that. However, he said he doesn’t think it's open to the public to buy like it used to be (JR, have you been by there recently, and do you know if they still sell it?).He said he’d ingratiated himself with them and they know him now so they just give him bread. That's going to be my MO if they don't sell.
  • jr_in_nyc
    jr_in_nyc
    Piano,
    I think the last time I was inside was last year during the holidays. I just walked in and asked if they were selling bread, in Spanish though. I forget how much they charged per bread. I'm a big fan of the "conchas" (shells, in English because they look like shells). Those are the pics I posted of ( http://mexicanfood.about.com/b/a/Pandulcetacos.jpg ). All this talk of pan dulce (sweet bread) and conchas, is now making me crave this bread. I need to go back and see if I can purchase bread. I'll go tonight and see if they're open.
  • jr_in_nyc
    jr_in_nyc
    Piano,
    So I went in tonight around 8:00PM. Had to ring their buzzer next to the garage door. They had already finished baking for the evening. I asked if they had bread to sell, and they said yes. The bread had already been packaged and was ready to be sent out. I got two bags of "conchas" for a total of $6.00. I've taken some photos of the final product. Check them out here: http://goo.gl/BPlk1
  • piano
    piano
    Good job! How did they taste?
  • jr_in_nyc
    jr_in_nyc

    Piano,

    They're delicious. I like having my mexican bread with tea with milk.

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