NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 Seventeen new public bathrooms will be coming to neighborhoods across New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday, helping to address a problem he said every New Yorker knows too well.<\/p>\n
“Many of us have pleaded with baristas and maitre d’s. We have listened intently as a worker at Chipotle whispers the bathroom code to another paying customer,” the mayor joked. “We have bought that $9 latte. And all of us at one point or another just turned around, and had to go home.”<\/p>\n
It is estimated NYC has only one public toilet for every 8,500 New Yorkers, a problem Mamdani said that “some prior administrations have paid lip service to,” while “others have cast the need aside entirely.”<\/p>\n
As a start to rectifying this access issue, which the mayor said is a point of “dignity” for New Yorkers, the city has teamed up with the company Throne Labs, which will provide 17 bathrooms equipped with a comfortable interior, a running water sink, flushing toilet, air conditioning in the summer, heat in the winter, and a baby changing station across the five boroughs. Throne Labs will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining each touchless, modular unit, which will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
A $4 million pilot program will bring bathrooms to the following locations:<\/p>\n
Bronx: Yankee Stadium, Admiral Farragut Playground, Mapes Park and Monsignor Raul Del Valle Square<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: Columbus Park, Milestone Park, Fulton Street and Truxton Street and Avenue C Plaza<\/p>\n
Queens: Astoria Boulevard South and 31st Street, Northern Boulevard and 31st Street, Northern Boulevard and 54th Street and 34th Avenue and 64th Street<\/p>\n
Manhattan: Cooper Square, Malcolm X Plaza, Delancey Street and Suffolk Street and Plaza Alianza Dominicana<\/p>\n
Staten Island: North Shore Esplanade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 Seventeen new public bathrooms will be coming to neighborhoods across New York City,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5865,9,56,63,65,64,130496],"class_list":["post-349066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-infrastructure","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-bathrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349066","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=349066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}