{"id":349032,"date":"2026-09-17T05:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349032\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:53:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-begins-installing-17-new-public-bathrooms-across-the-five-boroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349032\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nyc Begins Installing 17 New Public Bathrooms Across The Five Boroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city has started installing 17 new public bathrooms across all five boroughs as part of a $4 million pilot program aimed at expanding access to free public restrooms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The modular, ADA-accessible units will be placed in high-traffic public spaces and will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Locations include sites near Yankee Stadium, Cooper Square, Malcolm X Plaza, Plaza Alianza Dominicana, Columbus Park, Astoria Boulevard South, and the North Shore Esplanade, among others across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Users can access the bathrooms through QR codes, text message entry, the Throne mobile app, or tap cards distributed by community partners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The new facilities will be located at Yankee Stadium, Admiral Farragut Playground, Mapes Park, and Monsignor Raul Del Valle Square in the Bronx; Columbus Park, Milestone Park, Fulton Street and Truxton Street, and Avenue C Plaza in Brooklyn; Astoria Boulevard South and 31st Street, Northern Boulevard and 31st Street, Northern Boulevard and 54th Street, and 34th Avenue and 64th Street in Queens; Cooper Square, Malcolm X Plaza, Delancey Street and Suffolk Street, and Plaza Alianza Dominicana in Manhattan; and the North Shore Esplanade on Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The one-year pilot will help the city evaluate demand, maintenance needs, and the potential for expanding a citywide public restroom network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city has started installing 17 new public bathrooms across all five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-349032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349032","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=349032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}