New Yorkers were in for a strange surprise when some of the city’s streets seemed to suddenly begin to ooze green slime. But this is no Spongebob gag — and residents are completely baffled as to what the fluid might be.
The mysterious case of the green “ooze” first came to public attention via X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, when one user posted a photo of what appeared to be green slime coming out of a manhole.
“So there’s literal green sludge bubbling up from the ground next to World Trade Center right now,” wrote X user Dan Pantelo. Pantelo’s post, which went up on Nov. 2, 2023, has amassed more than 4.4 million views at the time of writing, prompting a litany of other X users to weigh in on this seemingly bizarre phenomenon…