Can’t find a place to go in NYC? Council bill aims to offer thousands of public restrooms

[Kamaji]

Can’t find a place to go in NYC?  Council bill aims to offer thousands of public restrooms

By Alyssa Guzman
August 3, 2023

That’s relieving news.

City lawmakers are aiming to solve an all-too-common problem of not knowing where to go when you’ve got to go — which plagues tourists and locals alike — with a bill to add thousands of new thrones to the Big Apple within the next 12 years.

If passed, the plan introduced by Brooklyn Councilmember Sandy Nurse on Thursday would amend the city’s charter and require the government to build a four-year plan of “establishing and maintaining a public bathroom network,” Hell Gate NYC reported.

“This is really an issue of equity and justice. It’s been a long time coming, and the City knows that we need to be doing this,” Nurse, 39, told the outlet.

The bill would force the city to provide one bathroom for every 2,000 residents — creating significantly more restrooms than the one per every 7,700 New Yorkers available now.

There are around 1,100 public restrooms for the city’s 8.4 million residents, and Nurse’s plan would require 3,100 toilets to become available.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/nyc-council-bill-aims-to-offer-thousands-of-public-restrooms/

[Kamaji]

I'm sure that'll work out quite well - not.  Might as well announce NYC is setting up a bunch of homeless magnets.

[PeteS in CA]

Payoff to the SEIU?

[mountaineer]

Nurse’s plan would require 3,100 toilets to become available.

Put all 3,100 in the seediest part of town.