New Yorkers and tourists who come to New York They often have trouble finding a public bath that works and in many areas, There is simply. But the Mayor’s Office intends to put an end to this hardship of public places to relieve a futuristic bathrooms, With a price of $ 200,000 per unitto which we must add the expenses of the installation. Almost as much as an apartment.
It is not the first time that the city adapts and sells as a novelty an invention that other cities have been using years: the bathroom, known as “Portland WC”, for the place where it was designed, it is already present in others 250 locations in the United States.
Something similar happened with garbage containers than the city “discovered“In 2024, as part of the” revolution “that the City Hall launched to end the garbage mountains stacked on the sidewalks and reduce the prolific population of rats.
Los ‘Portland WC‘They enjoy something similar to a worldwide cult for its versatile facilities, of the kiosk type, which according to the manufacturer, are much cheaper than traditional bathroom buildings.
In the units installed in the park Joyce Kilmer del Bronx, Two blocks from the Yankees Baseball Stadium, passersby look at him curious.
A man accidentally activated the hand dryer, located next to the sink outside the cabin.
“We have not had a bath in this area for years,” he says Carlos López, Resident of the whole life of the Bronx, who criticizes the differences in access to public bathrooms in low and high income neighborhoods.
The street photographer Elijah Dominiquewho lives near the park, says that public bathrooms are especially important for homeless.
“We have many homeless people in this area,” he says. “They are the people who really need these bathrooms. It is good for them – and also for us, so that we are not stepping on (waste) on the sidewalks. Nobody wants that.”
New York has promised to build 49 new public bathrooms and renew existing 36 by 2029, for which it has a budget of 150 million dollars.
Currently, there are approximately 1,100 public health for the 8.4 million inhabitants of the Megaciudad, according to official estimates.
