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With no public bathrooms, the Big Apple is now ‘the Big Toilet’
New York Post ^ | June 9, 2020 | Kirsten Fleming

Posted on 06/09/2020 4:32:35 PM PDT by karpov

Working at a beer store on St. Mark’s Place, Brittany Spano, 27, has seen the Big Apple’s robust social life return, albeit in an abridged form.

Drink windows selling to-go cocktails and beers have sprung up throughout the city, drawing in socially starved New Yorkers who have been in quarantine for three months. But this re-emergence has come with a stream of issues — mainly a steady flow of revelers freely peeing in public since most bathrooms remain closed. And now, with thousands of protesters taking to the streets each day, more people than ever are contributing to NYC’s No. 1 problem by whizzing in the wild.

“Last night, my co-worker saw some guy just coming down the street and pulling down his pants [to urinate],” Spano tells The Post. “She was like, ‘Nah, not here, man.’

“There’s definitely been an uptick on this street, from what I’ve seen. But most people at least go in a corner or have friends cover them up,” says Spano.

A lack of restrooms has left New Yorkers in a bind. They want to go out but then they are left holding it in. Restaurants, bars and coffee shops where New Yorkers could always find relief in the past have closed their restrooms to the public. Plus, with fears over the coronavirus still very present, many don’t feel safe going into germ-infested public restrooms. And hey, peeing in public isn’t even a crime anymore. In 2017, New York City introduced the Criminal Justice Reform Act, which decriminalized low-level offenses.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: nyc; pee; sanfrancisco; whizzardofoz
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Figuratively for some time, now literally.
1 posted on 06/09/2020 4:32:35 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

NYC is truly now the “Paris of the West.”


2 posted on 06/09/2020 4:36:29 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: karpov

Where are the poop maps?


3 posted on 06/09/2020 4:37:41 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: karpov

I feel bad for the women because they don’t have a convenient way to urinate in New York City.


4 posted on 06/09/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: karpov
A lack of restrooms has left New Yorkers in a bind.


5 posted on 06/09/2020 4:38:41 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Night Hides Not

...And the San Francisco of the East


6 posted on 06/09/2020 4:41:12 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: SamAdams76

Dont folks use diapers on new years eve??


7 posted on 06/09/2020 4:46:17 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“.And the San Francisco of the East”

Hmmm... What is the common factor in these two once wonderful cities? What could it be....?


8 posted on 06/09/2020 4:47:26 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: karpov

San Francisco east.


9 posted on 06/09/2020 4:47:52 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RebelTXRose
Yes, on New Year's Eve, street vendors in NYC will sell them. That's because once you get into the Time Square to see the ball drop, you are stuck there for many hours. Unless you want to lose your place. Once you leave the area, you get to the back of the line.

It's something that everybody should do once. But only once.

10 posted on 06/09/2020 4:48:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Hover.


11 posted on 06/09/2020 4:49:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: karpov

Drive-thru Beer Stores are now again legal?


12 posted on 06/09/2020 4:50:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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"mainly a steady flow of revelers"

Common in tourist traps and cities occupied by the radical left. They don't produce goods of value.

13 posted on 06/09/2020 4:51:44 PM PDT by familyop
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“Brittany Spano, 27, has seen the Big Apple’s robust social life return,...”

What in the actual F is a “robust social life”?


14 posted on 06/09/2020 4:52:56 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Drink windows selling to-go cocktails...”

Oh cool...you can spend $10 for a martini when it costs you a buck at home. Big City logic.


15 posted on 06/09/2020 4:57:06 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: karpov

CUOMO AND DE BLASIO ARE TRYING LIKE HELL TO FLUSH IT.


16 posted on 06/09/2020 4:57:17 PM PDT by chopperk
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NYC should get an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest urinal.


17 posted on 06/09/2020 5:01:00 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: karpov

They prefer to be like San Francisco


18 posted on 06/09/2020 5:10:48 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: karpov

If he was pulling down his pants to pee, he ain’t a real man.


19 posted on 06/09/2020 5:13:14 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: karpov

Literally and figuratively.


20 posted on 06/09/2020 5:16:00 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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