Yes - public urinals should be available in locations with high bar traffic. Maybe someone could design a green project and do something with all of that pee, recycle it, and power something. (I'm completely serious).

Random thoughts:

If someone needs to community service, they should clean the urinals!

I think NYC needs public restrooms with attendants. Users should pay a fee to use the bathroom. I love this about London and Amsterdam - bathrooms are clean, little to no graffiti, and they make a little bit of money.

Starbucks should not be doing a better job providing for New York than New York. Especially when you get trapped waiting for a train with a rapidly filling bladder for 45 minutes - its one of the many factors which add up and creep up to deciding just to not bother going out for the night. 

People gotta pee. How about a 1 cent tax on every drink served? That would more than pay for it, right? 

Alot of bars, they have ample storage room but only one bathroom. How many locked "employees only" doors do you need? WTF is that? a damn beer bar on macdougal with only one bathroom? You serve BEER and your capacity is like 50 people! I'm not waiting 15 minutes for other people to do coke for the third time that night. I'm going somewhere else instead.

The more comparable town of London also sports public urinals.

Why don't we just allow people to take a whiz in public?  It's OK if a dog pisses on the sidewalk, why can't I?

I agree with the comment:  "I just don't think New Yorkers, by and large, can handle the
responsibility of public toilets. We are fucking assholes and will
destroy anything we can possibly destroy. Especially when drunk."

Maybe we should just make marijuana legal instead, problem solved.

A lot of us can handle responsibility. Don't give up because of a few jerks.  We do need to legalize weed, though.

Alcohol creates jerks from otherwise non-jerks and makes jerks even more jerky, weed tends to make people less jerky.

Not a bad idea but I think our larger problem is just that Americans seem to destroy shit just for the heck of it. It is mind blowing some times.

Nobody has respect for anyone's stuff anymore and the people who do don't say anything because they are afraid of getting beat down for speaking up. A La L-Train...

Agreed

My favorite part of Amsterdam is the public urinals.  Nothing wakes you up like airing out your junk in 33 degree, sopping wet air.  HELLO!

Amsterdam has public urinals all over the place. and they are not gross or smelly... i actually thought the first one i saw was a sculpture until some walked up and pissed on it ... i was like "hey that guy is pissing on that sculpture" and then my friend clued me in on what it was.

When I first read this, I thought you meant Amsterdam Ave and was very confused.

Sweet mercy. At least give us some urinals along the epic Blarney Stone / Port Authority Pub Crawl: http://literaryman.com/2011/04...

A better question would be, should they install bars in places where there's a lot of public urination.

Why go to the expense when a dark ally will do just as well? 

I think New York actually only has like, what, 3 alleys? Being totally serious here. I heard that from an architect friend but I can't remember the exact number. It is shockingly not as portrayed on TV and in movies.

I know there's one on Rivington,across from that hotel, and there's also one behind the Puck building.

No,  but there's lots of little spots behind buildings where business place their garbage, air shafts, etc., not to mention "community driveways" in the outer boroughs.
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Please don't pee in my driveway.

Too late! ; )