Although no one’s solved the case of the mysterious reoccurring maple syrup smell in Manhattan, the source of a puzzling “tone” heard for over a year and a half in Greenpoint has been located. Described by The Brooklyn Paper as an “ethereal ring-a-ling,” a representative from the DEP admitted that the sound comes from the nearby, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant’s PA system. This revelation should make it easier to solve an equally strange hum in Bay Ridge, also home to a sewage plant, and probably rules out the prevailing theories linking it to “trains, UFOs and breeding toadfish.” |TBP|