Thursday, September 27, 2012

$2M crapper is finally open!


From the Daily News:

The long-awaited comfort station at Elmhurst Park, with its edgy design and spacious bathrooms, has finally opened its doors. And local civic leaders say its better suited for a museum than a busy Queens park. 

"This breaks all the rules of form follows function,” said Robert Holden of the Juniper Park Civic Association as he stood outside the building on Tuesday. “There’s an obscene amount of wasted space here. Shouldn’t this money go to pay for more cops or for more parks maintenance?" 

Inside the cavernous men’s side, just two urinals and two sinks take up the outer area. There is a single toilet in a handicapped-accessible stall. Lime green and white tiles line the walls in a funky, geometric pattern. 

The women’s room features three stalls including one that is handicapped-accessible and two sinks. Its walls have a similar pattern in orange and white tiles. Each room has a diaper changing table built into the wall. 

Back when it was initially approved in 2010, the price tag for the comfort station was $1.9 million. It has since ballooned to about $2.3 million.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Will this now discourage the illegal mexicans in the area from pissing on the sidewalks and in peoples' driveways?

Anonymous said...

It even looks like a giant crapper! How did the city do it?

Anonymous said...

That's a nice park and all, but sometimes I wonder why, exactly, they had to build a fifty-foot hill of earth over the old tanks. Oh, wait...

Anonymous said...

Great drug dealing HQ with spacious stalls for sex services. Or sleeping/washing quarters for the illegals & homeless - thanks a lot!

Give me a break 4 x port a potties maintained by a private Co would have been the answer. So a Parkie has to clean this giant facility instead of worrying about the grounds and garbage. Already the Park is open 24x7 - never locked - com on folks - whos kidding who?

Anonymous said...

The capital budget in everything in Queens is totally out of control - look at the library, for example, cutting back on hours, staff, services while one block buster project after another rolls out.

Queens is controlled by developers - they sit on our business councils, our civic groups, our community boards, our cultural institutions.

Wake up people!!

Anonymous said...

Within 6 months it will be filthy and broken.

Anonymous said...

I give this piss stop about six months before it's destroyed.
Those tiles will be broken and turned into nice slicing weapons once the new school opens at 74th and 57th.

Anonymous said...

Parks can't handle the load as it's is, how will they maintain this park and comfort station?

Anonymous said...

Parks can't handle the load as it's is, how will they maintain this park and comfort station?
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They can't like putting in more development and having the schools try to educate, or bigger libraries and cut back on staff.

Its called honest graft, and someone got your taxes.

The bill of goods you get for keeping your mouth shut and being sickly sweet and polite around the pols.

Anonymous said...

http://news.yahoo.com/video/royal-flush-2-3-million-144625261.html

made fox 5 news

Anonymous said...

Warren was any of that money for little bay?

George Michael said...

I can't wait to visit this!

Anonymous said...

Le Courbusier must be envious...LOL!

It certainly moves me to take a wicked dump!

Anonymous said...

The NYC Parks Department: Function follows form and let's see how much money we can waste in the process.