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Get ready for the City Council to flush away even more of your money, Gothamites: Our fearless leaders have just passed a bill aiming to build at least 2,120 public bathrooms by 2035, half of them publicly owned.
Yes, the bill only commits to planning the scheme, but that’s still not reality-based.
Just do some quick math.
Bill sponsor Sandy Nurse (D-B’klyn) cites Park Department figures to come up with “almost like $3-$5 million” per regular brick-and-mortar bathroom build.
Too expensive, per Nurse. She cites the example of the prefabricated Portland Loo, which costs “only” a million bucks, as a possible alternative.
In fact, each Portland Loo unit actually costs about $185,000.
It’s New York City’s horrific regulatory environment (which leftists like Nurse created and love) that drove the install cost up by almost 500% to the million-dollar figure that Nurse approvingly cites.
Which means the “best” case here is that taxpayers would shell out more than $2.2 billion
And if you think that best case is happening, you may as well expect the Ty-D-Bol Man to pay for it.
That already insane million-bucks-per-toilet number came from when the city was putting in five such toilets, one in each borough.
Can you imagine the budget-ballon and time overruns for 2,120?
The crooked contractors with their hands out?
The “bathroom equity” consultants springing up overnight like mildew on a shower curtain?
And putting even half of any new facilities under public ownership is a recipe for disaster, since the city refuses to take care of the too few it already has.
A 2024 study from the City Council shows that two-thirds — two-thirds! — of the city’s public restrooms were either closed or unusable, and that 10% lacked soap and 13% toilet paper; 40% were strewn with garbage.
For decades, some of the best minds in city government have failed to figure out how to provide adequate numbers of public toilets in this town. And how to keep them clean and safe once they open.
In other words, on the public bathroom question, Councilwoman Nurse is absolutely full of … Shinola.
And it’s regular New Yorkers who’ll have to put up with the stench.