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There are Starbucks locations about every two blocks in NYC with typically clean-ish bathrooms, ask of for the key at the counter. The major hotels with decent sized lobbies will have restrooms in fairly close proximity too.
I've never had trouble finding restrooms in NYC, a point that has only been amplified when they passed that law requiring businesses that serve over a certain number of customers to have public bathrooms. I also don't find parking very difficult either, though. Trick is to not continuously circle the block, but to wait on one block for someone to pull out, IMO.
I've never had trouble finding restrooms in NYC, a point that has only been amplified when they passed that law requiring businesses that serve over a certain number of customers to have public bathrooms. I also don't find parking very difficult either, though. Trick is to not continuously circle the block, but to wait on one block for someone to pull out, IMO.
Food service businesses can limit bathroom use to customers. Nothing in the law says it has to be a public bathroom for use by non-customers. My local McDonald’s has started locking the bathrooms so people have to get an employee to unlock the door. I think they did that to reduce the number of non-customers using the bathrooms although they seem to let anyone who asks use them. Businesses that don’t serve food don’t have to have customer bathrooms.
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If a food service establishment has 20 or more seats and opened after 1977, it must provide a toilet for its customers. All other food service establishments are exempt from this requirement.
Food service businesses can limit bathroom use to customers. Nothing in the law says it has to be a public bathroom for use by non-customers. My local McDonald’s has started locking the bathrooms so people have to get an employee to unlock the door. I think they did that to reduce the number of non-customers using the bathrooms although they seem to let anyone who asks use them. Businesses that don’t serve food don’t have to have customer bathrooms.
True. But assuming the OP isn't homeless and destitute, buy something from the dollar menu and get the code If someone is desperate to use a bathroom, seems simple enough for me. Those places (e.g. larger businesses) that don't serve food have been easier to find bathrooms in my experience, even if they aren't required by law to provide public access.
If you do not have to sit on the throne many gas station will accommodate.
Then there are coffee houses,supermarkets, fast food joints and some local pharmacies.
I was out in Manhattan late night and no bathrooms anywhere. Then I saw a bar and just naturally look like I was a patron and snuck through. That's about the only way.
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If someone is desperate to use a bathroom, seems simple enough for me. Those places (e.g. larger businesses) that don't serve food have been easier to find bathrooms in my experience, even if they aren't required by law to provide public access.
