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Some subway riders and transit advocates are upset about NYC Transit closing subway bathrooms between midnight and 5 a.m. for cleaning. As AMNY puts it, "Subway toilets are the pit stop of last resort," but many New Yorkers, whether they are "leaving bars, clubs, or their work shift," rely on them. One ironworker said, "Where do I go now? Wet my pants?"
Others suggest the closings will mean worse things--one station agent says, "If the riders can't use the public toilets, they're going to use the train station as a toilet."--and others are skeptical the cleanings will really need to take 5 hours. But NYC Transit wants to make sure the bathrooms are clean and one cleaner explained, "The public is just nasty."
There are 78 public bathrooms in the NYC subway system. And there was a pivotal scene set in a subway bathroom in The Warriors.
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*"Where do I go now? Wet my pants?"*
what will i do without my built-in gps? get lost? no sucka! use a fuckin map...
same thing... hold it in—how old are yoiu?
yuck people actually use those bathrooms?
There are 78 restrooms in subway stations?!! I didn't know there were any at all.
Cleaning Subway Toilets: file under World's Worst Jobs.
where are these bathrooms? i can't think of one i have seen open before except 34th st. just piss behind a dumpster before or after the train. i do this about 4 times a week
Word #3, me too. But maybe it's best we're oblivious.
In 34 years i have never stepped foot into a subway bathroom. Just the thought of using a terlet in the subway. blechhuggghhH! They are just not an option.
I would rather develop a UTI than go into one of those places. I have it in my head that subway bathrooms are dangerous and/or disgusting and always make other arrangements.
Maybe those people could piss before they leave "bars, clubs, or their work shift?" Or in a Starbucks? Or a McDonalds? How fucking stupid are people? Show some adaptability, people.
jesus. new yorkers bitch about fucking everything. wah wah the public bathrooms are closed for 5 hours. now i'm going to shit myself. are there any adults anywhere in this city?
You need to understand that ironworkers are all drunk on the job so when they need to go they really need to go. I've never been in one subway bathroom myself. Wasn't that scene from The Warriors the one with the faggy gang on roller skates? They were probably the least scary of all the gangs, even less so than the chicks with the gun or The Orphans.
I would like to meet some of the people complaining about subway bathrooms being closed. Do people really find themselves needing a bathroom on a subway platform THAT regularly? I do find that a bit surprising.
Isn't there a drug for BPH or Depends? I can't say that I've ever noticed a bathroom in the subway, but then again, I've never really thought to look for one. The whole idea of bathrooms in MTA stations is nasty, considering how disgusting some bathrooms in bars and coffee shops are.
the sign says to ask attendant for access.
does that mean it's relatively safe?
and I think it's the older people who need to go often so that needing to find a bathroom feeling may eventually hit any of us. unless you have on depends.
being that Gothamist's demos are on the young side.
I always assumed that mostly homeless people use the subway bathrooms. I never have. If they close them from 12-5 get ready for serious poop on the platform. Can't they just close them during the time the cleaning crew is there? If people start defacating on the platforms they will have to clean that up too. Doesn't really add up.
http://www.merrymaids.com
Problem solved and cheaper than the MTA could ever offer.
Doesn't matter to me. I piss on the toilet seats in Starbucks or the local Pizza places. I like to pee on the sink, the sink handles, and the toilet paper rolls too.
If someone is waiting when I get out, I usually say "ugh! Disgusting! Some asshole pee'ed everwhere. I couldn't even get a paper to wipe it off!"
the orphans? they weren't even invited to the bronx. & only the head of the bathroom gang wore skates.
i think it's great that there are 2 references today to Michael Beck (star of the warriors & xanadu)
can you....dig it!!!
I always assumed that mostly homeless people use the subway bathrooms - slappy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - what?
duh, people will just use the station platforms as a bathroom like they normally do.
and i know union square, stillwell ave. and willets point/shea stadium all have bathrooms.
As one person said in the AMNY story "It takes five hours to clean a bathroom?"
Does this mean the MTA isn't going to clean them from 5 a.m. to midnight? Why don't they clean them on a semi-continuous basis like every other public bathroom?
drewo: I was thinking the same thing this morning, except with an added twist: cleaning subway bathrooms from 12 to 5 AM = worst job ever.
Also? People already piss on the subway platforms etc. About two months ago I was walking up a crowded subway platform at Grand Central and there was a man (not a homeless one either, not that that's any excuse) at the far end taking a leak in the corner (right near a door leading to a control room for the MTA). I yelled at him and told him he was disgusting. There are numerous (non-subway) restrooms in Grand Central - why the hell was he going on the platform?
The lesson here is: it doesn't matter if there are bathrooms available or not: in the end, people who are gross are just going to keep on being gross and behaving like animals.
all of these comments made me laugh out loud. i LOVE it.
Huh? Every subway bathroom I've ever seen has always said "closed 12 am to 5am."
Yeah, maybe the fact that The Orphans didn't even know about Cyrus's meeting in Van Cortlandt means that they were lamer than the roller skate guy's gang. But the leader of The Orphans did dress tougher and was much uglier than the roller dude.
just because you either can't find a bathroom, or you find one that is temporarily closed, it is no excuse to behave like an uncivilized cretian.
I liked the guys dressed up like an old-timey baseball team the best.
Also, only 1-2 people in the whole movie had a gun. Funny!
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Hahaha! That is hilarious. I did that one time at a party except I pissed all over the opened bag of TP. They had to get more.
Everybody here familiar with an Upper Deck?
the furies!!
also, in that movie you can see the abstract subway map that wasn't to scale.
It's true, today they'd be unloading on each other with Uzi's and Tec-9s and the innocent bystanders would be dropping like flies. The Furies were kind of faggy too with all the makeup. The best were the guys who chased them with a bus. Funny how in the movies the subway's always there and the doors always close just as the good guys get on the train.
What about the cops? They had guns and they didn't even shoot. In an updated version, the cops would shoot like 5,000,000 bullets.
one cleaner explained, "The public is just nasty."
Tell me something I don't know. To hell with all the whiners. In decades, I've never been unable to hold it until my destination, although it's been close a few times.
the gang on the bus - the turnbull a.c.'s
they always kind of reminded me of a neo-nazi group but they weren't, because i believe there was at least one black guy in the gang. probably the bald head thing.
Wow, a lot of you have some real hang ups. Shut up and shit.
I'm curious to where the bathrooms are located in the subway.
Time for the MTA to install automated single user bathrooms. Similar to the ones the NYC DOT is installing, like at Herald Square, except free.
Some subway bathrooms still have prison stalls for the toilet. By prison stalls I mean, waist high wall, so if you sit on the toilet, you can see anyone who walks in, or uses the urinal, or sink. Also there is no door on this stall. Plenty of opportunity to see private parts. Only once in my life I saw someone crapping on a prison stall subway toilet.
Also these prison stall toilets seem to be original to when the IND (subway) was built. Thats a interest sociology thought, that back in the 1920s/30s/40s when the IND was built, there was no need to have privacy walls in same sex bathrooms, no homophobia. I guess its the same attitude about same sex gym showers, you showered naked with everyone else of your gender. Nowadays same sex gym showers have bathroom toilet-style partitions with a lockable door. Times have changed.
Also I saw prison stall toilets, because you can't have no-line-of-sight public area toilets in a prison (many toilets in a row, for example, yard toilets, or medium security dorm style housing toilets, i'm not talking about cell toilets), someone will be murdered/raped behind the door, or you won't see a rival gang member coming up to shank you on the toilet.
The Coney Island station has bathrooms...nastiest bathrooms I've ever seen, anywhere.
^ Then volunteer your time to clean them. In fact, lick them clean! Lick them!
No one I know uses the subway toilets... so if it's closed for 5 hours, it should be the same as usual. Will people save up their poop to go on the platform just for this special occasion? People are gross.
The Furies were weird to me in a Droog sort of way. Right now, I'm thinking of the lady gang because somehow, they remind me of a typical Fleet Week night.