NYC Council Moves To Order More Public Restrooms

Gothamist reports:

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But in New York City, the question is often: Where? The five boroughs have among the fewest public bathrooms per capita of any big city in the United States.

Now some City Council members have introduced legislation that would require the Adams administration to identify at least one new restroom location per zip code within the next year.

The pandemic underscored the bathroom emergency. With so many restaurants and businesses closed, New Yorkers relied even more on public lavatories, which are difficult to find and often in deep disrepair.

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Today, I introduced two bills in the @NYCCouncil.

The first, introduced alongside @MarkLevineNYC, would help to bring public bathrooms to every zip code in the city. Restroom equity doesn’t get the attention that it deserves, but it’s a critical human rights issue. 1/2?

— Rita Joseph #BlackLivesMatter (@RitaJosephNYC) April 29, 2022

a public restroom in every zip code would dramatically improve NYC’s quality of life: https://t.co/9PE9HMxuvs

— Andrew Giambrone (@AndrewGiambrone) May 1, 2022