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Toilet-seekers,
How do you get bathroom access when you're out and about?
Blend in and pretend to be a customer?
Purchase something you don’t want for legitimacy?
Ask nicely- take a rogue ****- or you hold it till you get home?
I’m doing a story on the business of bathroom business. If you- or someone you know- is frustrated by New York’s lack of toilet options, please let me know! I’d love to hear your gripes.
I guess people can cope either by increasing the amount of fiber in their diet or cutting it out completely. As for number one, the number of puddles of mystery fluid on the sidewalk may answer your question.
I give up on being civil. I go in phone booths construction sites trees sides of buildings....wherever I can. WHEN I CAN I make a trip into Macy's or a Starbucks.
I shouldn't have to do any of this. Taxes are too high not to have bathrooms. Why do dogs get a free pass but humans get fined ? How dumb is that.
I don't feel I need to pay every time I use the bathroom. I go way too often. Although for 50 cents or less and I'd be willing to pay.
Any 3rd world country I've been to has public bathrooms but for some reason this city hasn't found a way to make money on it so they let it go. NYC population is booming and infrastructure is lacking. You can't claim to be world class city without bathrooms.
Recently I saw a business starting a locker/bathroom business for $8 a day. That would be a great place to urinate...right on their doorstep.
I never ever understood people complaining about a lack of bathrooms. I've never met a true New Yorker who doesn't keep a mental list of accessible bathrooms in the neighborhoods that they frequent. Whether they be bars, coffee shops, bookstores, whatever.
Also, NYC does have a system of public bathrooms- it's called Starbucks. Go ahead people, keep buying $5 cups of mass-produced garbage coffee and secretly funding the bathrooms for the masses.
It really is a learned art--- once learned it usually is not that bad... just a few in the past month or so--- Main Public Library --- Bryant Park-----Sheraton Towers-----Beacon Hotel--- Macy's ... there are lots more but the subject needs to be studied. The rule of thumb is in this city if you have to ask somebody the answer is likely to be NO sorry it is out of order or It is for customers only.
Can you really walk into a hotel and use their bathrooms?
BTW, public bathrooms aren't really common in other American cities either. It isn't just a NYC problem.
NYC should pass a law requiring eating establishments that have a certain number of seats allow the public to use its bathrooms.
Yes. Especially the ones with bars and or restaurants. They'll usually have a bathroom in the lobby area and who are they to say that you don't actually have a room there?
I know of a place where I could use the bathroom at at just about every place that I frequent or pass through often in case I need to make a pit stop.
There's also plenty of apps out there that tell you location, cleanliness, cost, and how many in that location that are free.
You make it sound like it is too hard to enforce. It isn't. How does the city enforce no smoking inside or occupancy limits or all other ordinances?
It would be the same thing.
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