With Its 17 New Robotoilets, NYC is Experimenting With the Radical Idea of Actually Providing Public Bathrooms
There are certain things about New York that people who’ve never been/lived here just refuse to believe when you tell them. The fact that people just throw garbage bags out onto the street. The fact that doing laundry means dragging your clothes down to the local laundromat.
- ▪There are certain things about New York that people who’ve never been/lived here just refuse to believe when you tell them.
- ▪The fact that people just throw garbage bags out onto the street.
- ▪The fact that doing laundry means dragging your clothes down to the local laundromat.
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There are certain things about New York that people who’ve never been/lived here just refuse to believe when you tell them. The fact that people just throw garbage bags out onto the street. The fact that doing laundry means dragging your clothes down to the local laundromat. And the fact that there are virtually no public toilets. There are something like 1,000 public toilets in NYC—the exact number varies depending on your source—which is roughly one for every 8,500 residents, or 11.75 per 100,000 residents. There’s surprisingly little in the way of hard academic research about equivalent numbers for cities worldwide, but the 11.75 per 100k tallies exactly with the conclusions of research conducted earlier this year for, um, a toilet company.
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