I can't believe you even added the Shenseea concert in there! Most people on here won't even know who she is.

"As THE CITY has reported, the cost of installing what are known as “comfort stations” in city parks ballooned before the pandemic — from an average cost of $1.3 million in 2011 to $3.6 million as of 2018. "

What the actual fuck... The biggest issue in NYC is everything costs millions of dollars for literally no reason.

Well, I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be a lot or a little because the garment district isn’t very large.

But if you google “garment district factories” there really are a lot of them, especially for midtown.

Did you read the article? Bathrooms aside, it's about how the city, as usual, was bureaucratic, incompetent, and slow.

> And strict New York City building code restrictions on prefabricated construction have dragged out getting potties to parks, a Parks spokesperson acknowledged. A sales manager for Portland Loo’s manufacturer, Madden Fabrication, told THE CITY that securing approval in New York was more difficult than in any other location the company has worked in.

> “I built 180 of these, from Portland to Alaska to Miami, and I’ve never had this certification problem,” Evan Madden told THE CITY. “New York City has been the most difficult to have a permit approved for.”

He goes on:

> Madden, the loo fabricator, told THE CITY he didn’t hear a peep from New York City officials until February 2022, when one of them angrily called and asked why the firm wasn’t providing the potties.

> The short answer: Nobody had ordered them.

Yes, they would be rented, but all else equal they would be less desirable than units with better floor plans. That means the sale and rental prices would be lower, which might make some of the projects unviable, especially given high interest rates right now.

Doesn’t specific so I assume it means total.

Total, or specifically for manufacturing?

It might not be financially viable, with either reduced sale prices or longer selling periods (to unload these terrible layout apartments), especially with interest rates being much much higher now (so construction loans are very expensive and mortgages are higher for would-be buyers).

This is nyc and u know who runs it

So these toilets will be coverd in needles 💉 and feces and bed bugs within 1 week

And if u say anything bad u might get charge with a hayte crime

Yea, commercial leases are typically for longer terms. My company has a couple offices they've been trying to sublease for years now that are basically abandoned. When the leases expire it's hard to imagine the landlords will have any more luck.

3,000 jobs in the neighborhood, according to article

Look forward to everyone being angry about these bathrooms that have been demanded to be put into city parks for years.

PUT IN MORE BATHROOMS. NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

Other cities with even worse issues with homeless populations have successfully implemented these bathrooms. There's nothing so special about NYC that they wouldn't work here. What is unique is our stubbornness and inability to try.

There are still a lot of textile factories in the garment district, they’re just high up so you don’t see them

This should be all around the city, not just in parks. The problem here is that the cost of anything in this city is insanely high compared to other cities.

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I hope this takes hold around New York. Just to give the homeless a halfway decent place to clean up alone is worth the cost and maintenance. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Haha, I sure hope so, considering I spent quite a long time assembling it myself!

Unfortunately the true cost of a usable bathroom in the city is whatever drink is cheap at a bar.

Parks.

So who cleans it? Sanitation department? Parks department? Nobody department?

I really hope it works well.

People bout to complain the homeless will use them because they rather the homeless piss and shit on the street right. Just make sure to pay the person who clean them 6 figures.

This shit happened in Boston like a year ago. The cat killer posted on Facebook that he found a missing cat and was praised as a hero when it was returned. He eventually got caught when a repairman found cat treats leading into his garage and then the guy killed himself.

Yes! Check the ASPCA and AMA Animal Rescue for some stories about breeders abusing animals in their care.

Just sent $50 for these poor kitties. I urge everyone who can to do the same.