{"id":165481,"date":"2026-03-16T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:56:07","slug":"manhattan-parks-toilet-plan-stalled-as-mayor-heads-on-with-4-million-modular-public-restrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165481\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan park\u2019s toilet plan stalled as mayor heads on with $4 million modular public restrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NYC is flushing money down the toilet \u2014 at least figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> announced at the start of his term in January a $4 million pilot program for new, prefabricated modular public toilets, plans for a restroom of this kind has already been languishing for nearly three years in Manhattan\u2019s Discovery Playground in Fort Washington Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/03\/16\/public-bathroom-fort-washington-park-construction-cost\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=SCOOP_031626&amp;utm_source=1&amp;utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=%243%205%20million%20prefab%20potty%20is%20stalled&amp;utm_campaign=SCOOP_031626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The City<\/a> reported on March 16.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/modular-public-restrooms-plan-in-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tPotty problem: Manhattan park\u2019s toilet plan stalled as mayor heads on with $4 million modular public restrooms &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NYC is flushing money down the toilet \u2014 at least figuratively. Just as Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[67967,75,84,83,22925,9,24,63,22458,67968,67969],"class_list":["post-165481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-fort-washington-park","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-parks","tag-nycs-preliminary-budget-2026","tag-public-restrooms-in-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}