From AM-NY:When nature calls underground, proceed to the bathroom with caution.
Many of the 129 restrooms in 77 of the system’s stations are overflowing with filth — if they are still open at all, according to a survey of every station bathroom by amNewYork conducted over six months.
“You’d have to be pretty desperate to go into one of those,” said David Suker, 41, a Bronx rider using the 161st St-Yankee Stadium Station, where a man smelling of marijuana was recently seen counting money in the men’s room.
Nearly a fifth of the system’s 468 stations have public bathrooms for men and women, mainly at the ends of lines and big transit hubs, NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton said. They are closed between midnight and 5 a.m. for cleaning, he said.
While transit records list 129 bathrooms, about 60 of them were locked or converted to other station uses like storage, amNewYork found.
Of the open bathrooms, a third were frightening caverns of garbage, urine, standing water or unseemly smells. Odors from the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. station on the N nearly caused an amNewYork reporter to feel faint during a recent visit.
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They should convert these to the street bathroom stalls for individual use. A special button for emergency purposes could be included to make the experience more tolerable and safer for all users. Never a pleasant option, never the less an option for bathrooms is necessary, they already exist - make it available for those who need it.
It's a shame too. I went to London and the public bathrooms were spotless there.... I guess Marty's potato chip is more important....
I agree with faster340, the condition of our subway system is an absolute embarrassment compared to those of Europe and Asia. Hell, even Mexico City has better looking stations than ours. It makes you wonder where all the money goes given that the MTA has a budget bigger than that of some cities.
I say we should found the city council, Quinn and Bloomberg to live in them
This is the so called "greatest city in the world". Absolute bullshit.
Years ago, there was a book I saw in Barnes and Noble titled "Guide to NYC Public Bathrooms" or something like that. I don't think that book is around any more. No, George Michael didn't write it!
Try these websites:
http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/
http://gonyc.about.com/cs/
atozinde1/a/bathrooms.htm
You can always carry around a "pee bottle", which is what mountain climbers and campers use in their tents at night. Just might be a problem finding a discrete place!
Maybe an entrepreneur could find a way to capitalize on the lack of toilets? If he could, then we could all sing -
"Urine the money, Urine the money!"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
"I say we should found the city council, Quinn and Bloomberg to live in them"
Just like when Sheriff Buford Pusser put the Mayor in the Men's room!
I was shocked (and pleased) by the fact that there are ANY toilets open in ANY station in this day and age. I thought there were only a dozen open toilets left in the whole system. So, I'm happy with this. By the way, Woodside LIRR/7 Train toilet is not horrible.
I agree with faster340, the condition of our subway system is an absolute embarrassment compared to those of Europe and Asia. Hell, even Mexico City has better looking stations than ours. It makes you wonder where all the money goes given that the MTA has a budget bigger than that of some cities
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NYC's system is one of the oldest in the world. Many in Asia and Europe are quite new.
Additionally, ours is also one of the only ones that is in operation 24/7. "nicer" ones around the world close every night for several hours, system wide, to take care of cleaning and maintenance.
you cant have it both ways.
Around 35 years ago, I went into the 74th St.-Roosevelt bathroom and there were 2 guys standing by the urinals. One guy was grabbing the other guy's ass and leering at me when I entered. I took Crappy's advice.
"you cant have it both ways."
Keeping the bathrooms and stations somewhat clean is too much to ask for? With the amount of unemployed people in this city now would be a good time to clean it up a bit and help someone get paid. But there's money for Governors Island and Marty's chip....
Crappy, you're a pisser!
When I used to ride the subway I always made sure I went potty before heading out-I figured either there would be no bathroom whatsoever in the system and if one existed I'd be better off not entering for various reasons. It sucked to think like that but what can you do-it was what it was.
These bathrooms always been a mess.
I remember back in the 60's when I was a kid on Dekalb ave the TA had a highly detailed green fly painted into the porcelain urinals to "aim at"
It didn't work, you could hardly breath in those bathrooms. The woman's bathrooms were WORSE you couldn't breath at all.
It was all seats and floors covered in urine soaked toilet paper.
To many people are slobs that's the problem, especially the 3rd world trash.
I'd rather pee in my pants than use one of these bathrooms. They have always been a disgrace and I'm sure the situation will never be addressed nor will it change. What was once the greatest city in the world has now been reduced to a third world, overpopulated, overdeveloped, overtaxed filthy slum.
"....frightening caverns of garbage, urine, standing water or unseemly smells"
EAU DE SUBWAY
"Odors from the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. station on the N nearly caused an amNewYork reporter to feel faint during a recent visit."
Let me guess, another Midwestern transplant who went to Columbia J-School and now thinks she knows our city?
Here's an idea, how about hiring actual New Yorkers to do local stories? We can take the smell, noise, and dirt of the city. But yes, we do deserve better.
Don't any of you people realize that there is a Starbucks every other block in the city? They don't even make you buy anything!!
Barnes & Noble will let you use the bathroom for free as well, along with most hotel lobbys.
Keeping the bathrooms and stations somewhat clean is too much to ask for? With the amount of unemployed people in this city now would be a good time to clean it up a bit and help someone get paid. But there's money for Governors Island and Marty's chip...
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The LAST thing i want is more Gov't union jobs.
All I know is that I'm holding my own. By the way, I had an interesting encounter with a female police officer this afternoon. I told her it was nice out but she made me put it away! ;>(
Barnes & Noble will let you use the bathroom for free as well, along with most hotel lobbys.
You can pee in hotel lobbies?
All we are saying is give pees a chance.
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bathroom on the right.
Odors? What odors?
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