And at the peak of final exam studying, too! Our Greenwich Village correspondent reports:

I don’t know what it is, but it smells like the law library is in a dump. I gave up and left an hour ago. The whole basement of the library was EMPTY. But there were holdouts in the corners and the top floor in Vanderbilt.

We don’t know what the smell IS….

And from another NYU source:

People have been thanking me for confirming that they weren’t nuts. We’ve asked the librarians [about the mystery smell], but they have no answers.

From a commenter:

It smells like a Dumpster / port a potty combo, with an emphasis on the Dumpster. Think rotting trash in warm weather.

DEVELOPING…