Keith Haring created quite a bit of art in his short life, and love for it has only grown since his death in 1990 of AIDS-related complications. Hence the recreated murals, restored ceilings and upcoming Brooklyn Museum show. But there is another bit of Haring being made available to the city right now. This month The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is opening up Haring's well-known (and quite dirty) bathroom mural for public viewing. Haring painted the mural, finishing it less than a year before he died, as part of a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. more ›

The Post reports that police are investigating whether a 13-year-old girl was raped in a downtown park's men's room yesterday. The paper reports that the "girl who sources said is a runaway told cops that a man dragged her into a Battery Park men’s room yesterday and raped her." more ›

Children: always with the pooping and the peeing, and often at inopportune times, like when Mrs. Warner is trying to educate the rotten bathroom-abusing fifth graders at P.S. 90 on Coney Island! According to an email obtained by Brooklyn Daily, Warner and the school's principal, Greta Hawkins, are fed up with students micturating and defecating whenever their indulgent little bodies want to cut loose. So they've implemented a rewards system where students who demonstrate the most self-control over the course of a week win an array of fabulous prizes, like stickers and pencils! The winners can then use these for fun activities while they recover from their bladder infections. more ›

Today, Redditors are taking on the controversial and, how shall we put this delicately....somewhat graphic issue of public urination. The spirited debate centers around whether or not New York should install public urinals in areas with a lot of bars, a la Amsterdam or Brussels. So...should we? more ›

The Daily News' police sources claim that a man groped a little boy in a bathroom at a Central Park playground yesterday morning. According to the News, "The boy was leaving the bathroom at Ancient Playground, near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about 9:15 a.m. when a man grabbed his buttocks and fled." more ›

A pilot in a LaGuardia-bound flight from North Carolina got locked in the bathroom of his own plane last night, triggering an accent-fueled terror scare that was completely, totally, absolutely, ridiculously unnecessary. more ›

Six hundred thirty-four Brooklyn Students, one pot to poop in: the Daily News reports on a truly crappy situation at Science Skills Center High School, where the school has allegedly only kept one of five working toilets open for the past month. And it's left students traumatized: "It was awful—and not just the smell or the line. It was the pee all over the place and the terrible plumbing," said 16-year-old Kianna Cole. To resolve this conflict, perhaps the school could get everyone together and have a block potty? more ›

We've all had our fair share of less-than-stellar nights at the bar, but it's always good to avoid making a few simple mistakes: don't try to get high in the bathroom, don't start a fight with the bartender, don't call 911 on yourself, and definitely don't lie down on the pool table. Because if you do, you might very well end up in the newspaper. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a woman's body was found in a rest room at the 71st Avenue/Forest Hills subway station. According to the AP, "woman was found hanging by a rope from a water pipe... Another customer discovered the woman, and contacted a station agent who called police." The ME's office is conducting an autopsy, but it's suspected to be a suicide. more ›

On Thursday, shit was seriously stirred up at the Murry Bergtraum High School in Lower Manhattan, when Principal Andrew Lewis took away students bathroom privileges after a fight between two students. A twenty minute riot ensued, with kids screaming and running through the hallways like a tween version of a jailhouse riot, or a Justin Bieber concert. Yesterday, things were tense in the school, but remained under control thanks to an increased presence of guards. Those kids should have known they could always use Shell Bank Creek if they really had to go! more ›

The Charlie Sheen frothing saga just can't stop, won't stop providing the gory, decadent details. Sheen was actually lucky that his coke-and-prostitute filled bender ended inside the relative confines of the Eloise Suite, since the night almost came to an abrupt end in the bathroom of the fancy Daniel restaurant. Some innocent diner could have easily walked in on Sheen in coke facepaint with his pants around his ankles, after his special lady friend refused to have sex with him in the bathroom. “When the assistant opened the door, there was Charlie standing there naked with cocaine all over his face! He was delusional and just completely lost. Totally out of it,” a source told RadarOnline. more ›

McDonald's bathrooms—which are lavatories of last resort for any discerning restroom connoisseur—are nevertheless the only option in certain desperate situations. But if you need an emergency comfort break at the Kips Bay location, you'd better hope you're not evacuating while black, according to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. Three black men are suing McDonald's, claiming they were told that if they wanted to use the restroom at the 480 Third Avenue location, they had to buy something. They allege that they were, ahem, peenalized because of their race, while witnessing whitey waltz into the water closet! more ›

Silent Barn, the dirtiest venue in New York (unsubstantiated!), recently got a little cleaner. A little. The DIY music venue/art space located in Ridgewood, Queens has one of those bathrooms that make you contemplate adult diapers—it is not a pretty sight. In exchange for a video shoot there, one band "paid" the powers-that-be in one bathroom cleaning. This important moment, which like a total solar eclipse probably won't happen again for another 360 years, was documented: more ›

While many people were startled by the hail pelting theirs windows last night, Mother Nature left some Brooklyn residents an unwelcome gift in their bathrooms—it seems that hail really knows its way around plumbing! One family wrote to us, "We were alternately thrilled and a little scared by the loud hail storm this evening. Then we heard rushing water from the bathroom... the golf-ball sized ice chunks backed up the storm drain, backed up the tub and toilet and sinks and came rushing into the bathroom. Sooty, dirt-laced water. It just kept coming, and coming. Two inches (?) filled the bathroom, spilled out into the hall, threatened to go further but for every towel in our closet." more ›

A 25-year-old man was found dead this afternoon on the 2nd floor bathroom floor at the Forest Hills Barnes & Noble. The man was discovered about two hours after the store opened. Police found him unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead earlier this afternoon. A Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death, though the Post reports no weapons at the scene or visible injuries on his body. more ›

Comedian Mark Malkoff has pulled off his latest stunt: spending five days in his New York City bathroom, sans the almighty internet. Below is his first video segment documenting the solitude; does he survive all five days? Spoiler alert: he just emailed us this video so he's not only alive, but he's been reacclimated into the online world. more ›

Move over, David Blaine. This guy Mark Malkoff is attempting the unthinkable! He's going to live in his New York City bathroom for five days. He claims this is to combat his internet addiction, so he won't be bringing his iPhone or laptop in with him—he will, however, be bringing with him this list of things to accomplish during his stay. more ›

A cleaning woman was arrested on assault charges after violently beating salesman Alen Bairamoukov, who desperately had to use the facilities. Suffering from gastritis, the man burst into the bathroom at Flatbush Xpress Furniture where Lily Rose Vaughan was cleaning, saying "Rosie, I'm dying, please, I have to go inside." Vaughan told him to go next door, then allegedly smashed his head with the porcelain lid of the toilet and bit him in the neck. While this one incident is scary enough, it's not nearly as terrifying as the prospect of janitor vampires. Vaughan claims she was acting in self defense, and was released on her own recognizance. more ›

The Williamsburg Satmars rec center bathroom signs seem to have gotten an upgrade, suggesting their bathrooms are only for men with payots and women with lots of children. Though the woman's skirt seems way too short for Satmar standards, the paper cutout additions are pretty spot on. So what other neighborhoods could use bathroom makeovers? Bike helmets in Greenpoint? Bermuda shorts and fanny packs in Times Square? Photoshop contest! [Via Village Voice] more ›

Director Brooks Branch tells City Room how hard it was to find the perfect bathroom for his upcoming movie, Multiple Sarcasms. The film, set in 1979, features a lead character who does his best writing in the bathroom, and Branch said, "Every single location I went on, everyone said, ‘Law & Order’ shot here. I started to feel that every location in New York is a ‘Law & Order’ hand-me-down. I felt we’re never going to find a fresh bathroom." City Room explains Branch finally solved it by having "one built, deep inside a warehouse in Brooklyn." He did manage to find a good fountain at the Japan Society, though. more ›

amNY visited all of the subway system's 129 bathrooms, reporting, "Many of the 129 restrooms in 77 of the system’s stations are overflowing with filth — if they are still open at all... Odors from the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. station on the N caused an amNewYork reporter to feel faint during a recent visit." Specifically, at that station: "The smell of waste in this station was intolerable, plus the ceiling leaked." When you throw in regular eau de subway—shiver. more ›

Commuters on the Staten Island Ferry fear that without bathroom attendants the facilities will go from sparkling to unsightly, especially during weekend "drunk boat" hours. At a budget hearing yesterday the Department of Transportation announced it would eliminate the jobs of eight women's room matrons and a dozen deckhands that clean the men's rooms, reports the Advance. Though the attendants cost the city $1.4 million per year, ferry passengers were distressed by the decision. "There's going to be drunk people in here and a mess," said Jessica Sosa of Dongan Hills. more ›

A man attacked and possibly raped a pediatric nurse in a bathroom stall in the midtown bar Social, police said. The perp fractured the 30-year-old woman's skull, and broke her eye socket and nose after she reportedly refused to dance with him in the three-story Eighth Avenue bar and lounge. more ›