Metro

This street stinks!

UGH! Rami Sayed holds his nose and a woman sorts through food crates that add to the problem on Broome. (Chad Rachman)

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It may be called Broome Street, but it smells like it hasn’t been swept in decades.

The olfactory assault has gotten so bad on one stretch of the Lower East Side street — between Allen and Eldridge — that New York magazine has named it “The Smelliest Block in New York” in its latest issue.

The reek of stagnant water, rotting produce and rancid meat has become so overwhelming, the magazine compares it to the infamous stench of the old tenement days of the 1800s.

Residents agree they’re are living in a nightmare for nostrils.

“I won’t deny it,” Rami Sayed, 25, a student and neighbor, told The Post. “Sometimes, it smells like a dead body or dead rats. It’s a mix of fish, sewage and rotting vegetables.”

A visit to the area quickly proves that the offending stretch of Broome Street is to odor what Broadway is to theater and Wall Street is to money.

Although the block is being gentrified with trendy shops, it is still plagued by a wafting stench that the magazine calls “ripe and outlandish.”

“To walk down Broome on an August afternoon is to spend a few minutes confronting the idea of dying, rotting and smelling,” the mag says.

The Post was able to quickly confirm the findings, as people who spend time living and working on the block agreed with the putrid putdown.

“It does smell out here,” said Anthony Tu, 32, who owns a pet-supply store. “We just moved here, and it’s bad. We call 311 all the time, but what can we do?”

The biggest question on the block is: What’s causing the stink?

Guesses vary. Tu said one reason could be that water on the street gets into big cracks and doesn’t drain. The water is especially odorous because food trucks are brought to the street every night to be washed down.

“I put Pine-Sol on the street every day, but it doesn’t help,” he said.

The magazine also points the finger at one particular produce and meat shop, Yu and Qiang Trading Inc.

Although New York magazine couldn’t pinpoint the source with certainty, it names that business as a chief suspect. The mag even brought an odor expert to the establishment.

He reportedly yelled, “Ay-yi-yi! Wow! Oh, boy, oh boy!” when he smelled the place.”

Neighbors agree the shop is malodorous.

“During the summer it’s bad. The produce arrives in boxes with ice and it melts and smells,” Tu said.

Ken Chen, manager of Yu and Qiang, denied his business was the big stinker.

“Hey, it’s a part of life here. You can’t change it,” he said, before quickly adding, “There is no one single source.”

todd.venezia@nypost.com