Potty Talk: Coping with NYC's Lack of Restrooms (New York, Union: 2014, Home Depot)

[bilmin]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

Nice, while you're at it let's set up the toilet geshtapo so we can enforce that and put stores out of business for not giving away free services

Anti Nimby--- give us your home address and we will add it to the list--- what a moronic proposal

[nightcrawler]

I can always fins a place to go, when need be.
Hotels, of course
bed bath beyond.
McDonalds (buy a soda)

if you look, you can find.

I also keep an empty large gatorade bottle in my car, if all else fails.

[antinimby]

Unless you say why it's moronic, then you probably have no good reason other than you don't like it. BTW, I only got this idea from hearing on the news that Paterson NJ has that law. Unless Paterson is the only city on Earth to do this, then otherwise there are others and if it works in other places, then why is it moronic?

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by antinimby

Unless you say why it's moronic, then you probably have no good reason other than you don't like it. BTW, I only got this idea from hearing on the news that Paterson NJ has that law. Unless Paterson is the only city on Earth to do this, then otherwise there are others and if it works in other places, then why is it moronic?

The politicians who wrote that law should be the ones scrubbing the toilets and buying cases of Marcal & hand towels

[SeventhFloor]

//www.city-data.com/forum/new-y...ms-public.html

[sirtiger]

this is when its great to be a male in manhattan.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

//www.city-data.com/forum/new-y...ms-public.html

that's a really old thread from 2011. Starbucks still lets anyone use the bathrooms

[boatshoe]

Originally Posted by antinimby

Unless you say why it's moronic, then you probably have no good reason other than you don't like it. BTW, I only got this idea from hearing on the news that Paterson NJ has that law. Unless Paterson is the only city on Earth to do this, then otherwise there are others and if it works in other places, then why is it moronic?

It's moronic because it's private property. Why should it become a restaurant's job or a store's job to offer that service to the general public? Maybe you'd like to kick out the homeless and junkies who will end up living in those bathrooms, like they live in the Penn Station and Grand Central toilets?

Incidentally, regarding Patterson:

Originally Posted by NJ.Com

A Market Street McDonald's has racked up eight citations for consistently keeping its restroom closed to the public, according to The Paterson Press.

The fast food restaurant, located near City Hall in downtown Paterson, keeps the bathroom door locked to prevent the homeless from bathing in the sink and drug users from using, Paterson Health and Human Services Director Donna Nelson-Ivy said, citing conversations with a McDonald's manager.

Nelson-Ivy called the locking of the bathroom "unacceptable" and suggested that McDonald's staff members "monitor" the bathing and drug use problems, according to The Paterson Press.

City code requires any restaurant with at least 10 seats to open its restrooms to the public, whether they be patrons or not.

Paterson McDonald's Locks Bathroom to Keep Out Undesirables

[NooYowkur81]

What do the vendors do? They must have amazing "holding it in" powers. That or they wear diapers. Ewwww

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

What do the vendors do? They must have amazing "holding it in" powers. That or they wear diapers. Ewwww

New York Street food? That's called the 'special' sauce