NY PUBLIC RESTROOM COSTS $2.3 MILLION

Big Government ^ | September 27, 2012

[SMGFan]

How much should a public restroom cost? If you have to go to the bathroom in Elmhurst park in Queens, New York, you can go in style. A new facility there that features two urinals and one stall for men and three stalls for women cost $2.3 million to build. Robert Holden, who runs the Juniper Park Civic Association, charged: If anybody out there can tell us the taxpayers, that a bathroom like this should be $2.3 million. That’s obscene. It’s just a tremendous waste of space and, especially, money. This may be good for Donald Trump or Mayor Bloomberg, but the taxpayers of New York don’t need this. Anthony Nunziato, president of the Middle Village Maspeth Civic Association, added, “It’s large, but it’s not functional, and that’s the key here, what’s functional?” A spokesperson for the Parks Department offered a reason for the extravagance: because public bathrooms are used so frequently, the city used more durable materials, such as thicker gauge door metal and all-steel sanitary piping.

[SMGFan]

All that money flushed down the crapper.

[hinckley buzzard]

Oh yeah. Thicker sheet metal for a couple stall doors must cost an extra half a million easy.

[SMGFan]

“Youse gotta problem wit dat?”

[GeronL]

Is it unisex and have little holes between the stalls?

It will

[JimmyMc]

Talk about pissing away money!!!

[ClearCase_guy]

They spent all that money — and it really stinks!

[JimmyMc]

Talk about pissing away money!!!

[DemforBush]

"A spokesperson for the Parks Department offered a reason for the extravagance: because public bathrooms are used so frequently, the city used more durable materials, such as thicker gauge door metal and all-steel sanitary piping consultant's commissions to some fine gentleman who also engage in waste management and arranging personal loans at relatively reasonable rates.

There, fixed it.

[SMGFan]

You want to be sure your fancy toilet doesn’t have an unfortunate accident? We are selling toilet insurance.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Da unions gotta get deir share.

Yous got a problem wid dat?

[Gay State Conservative]

Hey,these days it's essential that bathrooms are designed to accommodate all seven genders in a discreet and respectful way.That stuff costs $$$,particularly with union plumbers in NY making more than some brain surgeons.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When I was in NYC they seemed to prefer pissing in telephone booths.

[SkyDancer]

Cheap union labor. It would have cost more than that if a non-union crew did it. (sarc for those of you who don’t get it.)

[Carriage Hill]

Union corruption, graft and payoffs always drive-up the price; it could have been done for significantly less. Sounds like a blast bunker-grade crapper. It'll be trashed and unusable within 1½ years, I'd bet.

[Woodman]

This was on the news last night. It's actually a really nice looking structure of Brick and Glass Block, fully tiled inside. I'm willing to bet they used some Graffiti proof materials. I give it about 6 month before it looks like any other public restroom in NYC (Like a subway station without the urine smell).

[unixfox]

How long before graffiti turns it into another dump?

[smokingfrog]

WHAT??

It was only supposed to cost $1.9 million. (not kidding)

[glyptol]

This crap has got to stop.

[jmacusa]

Nah. Fuggedaboutit. Do what everybody does when youse gotta take a leak, youse go down inta th’ subway.