There are lots of problems with public toilets in New York City, starting with the fact that there aren’t any.
New Yorkers have long been promised relief in the form of high-tech European toilets that take coins and clean themselves, but even though a few demonstration models have been installed here and there, they have never been able to multiply to critical mass the way, say, fiberglass cows and Duane Reade drugstores have.
Now there is bad news from Seattle, which is abandoning its experiment with five public toilets because they appear to do in that city precisely what some people fear they would do here — break down, promote prostitution and drug dealing, and somehow lead to more human waste on the streets, not less.
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