{"id":275573,"date":"2026-06-23T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275573\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:07:09","slug":"nyc-subway-bathrooms-finally-have-toilet-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275573\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway bathrooms finally have toilet seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relief at last.<\/p>\n

There are now toilet seats in city subway bathroom stalls \u2014 after the MTA landed in deep doo-doo<\/a> with the agency\u2019s Inspector General\u2019s Office, which told it to get off the pot and install them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pleased that New York City transit agreed with our recommendations and is taking steps that will make these bathrooms easier to locate and more comfortable to use,\u201d said MTA Inspector General Daniel Cort in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"MTAThe MTA has installed toilet seats in city subway batrhoom stalls. UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall fixes \u2013 like adding toilet seats \u2013 can make a big difference in comfort and hygiene for riders.\u201d <\/p>\n

After issuing a scathing report on the issue earlier this year, Cort\u2019s office said it recently found new black or white seats for toilets at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium station (B, D and 4 lines) and Pelham Bay Park (6 line) in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

New toilet seats also have been installed in restrooms in Manhattan\u2019s 14th Street Union Square station (L, N, Q, R, W, 4,5 and 6), 125th Street station (A,B,C,D), 168th Street station (A,C and 1), Inwood- 207th Street station (A ).<\/p>\n

Seats were put in the following Queens station, as wells: Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue (E,F, M, R and 7), Queensboro Plaza (N, W and 7), Main Street (7 line) in Flushing, Mets-Willets Point (7), Forest Hills (E, F, M and R), Kew Gardens (E,F), 179th Street (F), and Jamaica Center Parsons-Archer (E, J and Z).<\/p>\n

In most cases, the replacements occurred in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s bathrooms.<\/p>\n

MTA\/NYC Transit said in a response to the MTA IG\u2019s audit in February that it would \u201cexplore installing seats on existing toilets that can accommodate them without requiring retrofitting or significant structural modifications.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA toilet without a seat at a women\u2019s bathroom at the 161st Street subway station. MTA<\/p>\n

The good news is that NYC Transit kept its promise, according to the IG.<\/p>\n

The same earlier audit also found some of the public restrooms in skeevy conditions, lacking the basics such as toilet paper, soap and garbage cans and secure locks.<\/p>\n

Transit officials said they sent instructions to their cleaners to improve bathroom upkeep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Relief at last. There are now toilet seats in city subway bathroom stalls \u2014 after the MTA landed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29314,68,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,1210,1687,58],"class_list":["post-275573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bathrooms","tag-exclusive","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-transit","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275573","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=275573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}