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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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To: karpov
Even Flushing Meadows?


21 posted on 06/09/2020 5:16:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bonemaker
What in the actual F is a “robust social life”?

Glory holes?

22 posted on 06/09/2020 5:17:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Paladin2
Drive-thru Beer Stores are now again legal?

With wimmins too.

Not likely in Dakotas, however.

23 posted on 06/09/2020 5:20:51 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

¡Hola, Chicas!


24 posted on 06/09/2020 5:22:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

Surely people are moving out of Manhattan. Who would want to live there now?


25 posted on 06/09/2020 5:23:57 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: dfwgator
Sort of like Morning Glory pool/hole in Yellowstone? That hole?


26 posted on 06/09/2020 5:26:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ncpatriot

“Who would want to live there now?”

Democrats.


27 posted on 06/09/2020 5:31:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RebelTXRose

I like to party as much as the next guy, but I’ll have to admit, such a thing NEVER crossed my mind.


28 posted on 06/09/2020 5:32:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SamAdams76
I've heard there is some plastic thingy on the market that women can use for a penis-like urination experience. A gal who once served on the deck of an aircraft carrier told me about it.

When planes are taking off and landing, the deck crew can't get away to use the loo, so they whiz over the side.

29 posted on 06/09/2020 5:36:12 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Night Hides Not

what a sh^tshow this country has become.....what an embarrassment to the world....


30 posted on 06/09/2020 5:37:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: karpov

“Use stairs for Toilet”


31 posted on 06/09/2020 5:37:51 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: karpov

now people from San Fran can feel right at home when they visit...


32 posted on 06/09/2020 5:41:03 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: karpov

The Democrat cities are DONE !


33 posted on 06/09/2020 5:47:57 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: karpov

Also every other city and town where there has been a riot.

(Excuse me. I meant to say a “George Floyd Memorial Event.”.)


34 posted on 06/09/2020 6:01:13 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: karpov

Gotta catch up with Frisco.


35 posted on 06/09/2020 6:01:26 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: bigbob

Thank God for Rudy.We have had many wonderful trip to NYC while Rudy was mayor.I won’t be returning but they were great trips in the 90’s


36 posted on 06/09/2020 6:01:37 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: karpov

Is it fair to say NYC is a shithole?


37 posted on 06/09/2020 6:03:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Black lives matter" is dog-whistle for "kill Whitey.")
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To: Vigilanteman
"..I've heard there is some plastic thingy on the market that women can use for a penis-like urination experience.."

That would be a Go Girl. Biker chicks us'em, too. d;^)

38 posted on 06/09/2020 6:10:42 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: karpov

Instead of “Dancing in the Streets” New Yorkers now have “Pi$$ing in the Streets.”

As is often the case, new trends start in California, and soon work their way to the East Coast.


39 posted on 06/09/2020 6:11:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Baldwin77

Disease vectors congregate in places like that.

There they eat, and there they do their business.

‘Rats are dirty creatures.


40 posted on 06/09/2020 6:12:10 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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