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NY PUBLIC RESTROOM COSTS $2.3 MILLION
Big Government ^
| September 27, 2012
Posted on 09/28/2012 6:53:22 PM PDT by 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. Thats obscene. Its 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 dont need this. Anthony Nunziato, president of the Middle Village Maspeth Civic Association, added, Its large, but its not functional, and thats the key here, whats 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.
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All that money flushed down the crapper.
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posted on
09/28/2012 6:53:27 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
Oh yeah. Thicker sheet metal for a couple stall doors must cost an extra half a million easy.
To: hinckley buzzard
“Youse gotta problem wit dat?”
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posted on
09/28/2012 6:59:40 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
To: SMGFan
Is it unisex and have little holes between the stalls?
It will
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:06:04 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: SMGFan
Talk about pissing away money!!!
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:08:29 PM PDT
by
JimmyMc
To: SMGFan
They spent all that money — and it really stinks!
To: SMGFan
Talk about pissing away money!!!
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:08:41 PM PDT
by
JimmyMc
To: SMGFan
"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.
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:11:06 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(100% Ex-Democrat.)
To: DemforBush
You want to be sure your fancy toilet doesn’t have an unfortunate accident? We are selling toilet insurance.
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:13:18 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
To: SMGFan
Da unions gotta get deir share.
Yous got a problem wid dat?
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:14:22 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: SMGFan
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.
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:15:09 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive!)
To: SMGFan
When I was in NYC they seemed to prefer pissing in telephone booths.
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:35:45 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SMGFan
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.)
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:42:58 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
To: SMGFan
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.
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:43:16 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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To: Tzar
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).
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posted on
09/28/2012 7:57:48 PM PDT
by
Woodman
To: SMGFan
How long before graffiti turns it into another dump?
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posted on
09/28/2012 8:08:01 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: SMGFan
WHAT??
It was only supposed to cost $1.9 million. (not kidding)
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posted on
09/28/2012 8:17:57 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
This crap has got to stop.
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posted on
09/28/2012 10:46:16 PM PDT
by
glyptol
To: SMGFan
Nah. Fuggedaboutit. Do what everybody does when youse gotta take a leak, youse go down inta th’ subway.
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posted on
09/28/2012 10:48:42 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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