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The New York Times has potty on the mind with two (!!) articles about the big deal to bring 20 public toilets to New York City (besides thousands of bus shelters and hundreds of newsstands, but those are so last year). The first article is New Yorkers' positive reaction to bringing more pots to sit on, since there are only two in the city. The second is about the public restrooms Spanish outdoor firm Cemusa has designed overseas, revealing that Cemusa has only put up about half of 20 planned toilets in Rio de Janiero, even though they've been working with the government for three years. But those toilets were "designed to meld with the neighborhoods"... hey, is that why the Parks Department removed the Astor Place Cube? To replace it with a blue, shimmery public toilet?
Take a look at some of the toilets Cemusa has designed for other locations; the one pictured here reminds Gothamist of an elevator.
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by public bathrooms don't they mean = public gay sex hookup rooms?
re: blue shimmery one
Har! good one!
Speaking of Astor Place...is the cube back? I haven't had a chance to check in ages...
I think these toilets would wash themselves, maybe after each use. They close and are sprayed with water and cleaning chemicals. Probably not the best place for any sort of hookup.
Yeah, the cube is still not back. Maybe they are planning on installing it on opening day of the new astor place undulating building in some sort of coronation ceremony.
Public toilets are the bomb. They are awsome in europe.
A self-cleaning public toilet doesn't sound like anything but a challenge to New York. I'm sure the citizens will find a way to make it as scummy and disgusting as everything else.
toilets, great.
where is my god damn cube?
has anyone followed up on this?