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New York City to Install Public Pay Toilets Where the People Are Clean

On one hand, the placement makes sense: build public pay toilets in the Flatiron District, where the patrons will likely be business people, art buyers or Ethan Hawke. On the other hand, it's wack: do we not need them more further downtown, where a girl can probably get knocked up just by taking a solitary pee break at a club? (It's a fact: Bar bathroom sex gets more popular as the street numbers get lower. You don't want to know where that seat has been.)

Whatever the reasoning (proximity to Shake Shack, perhaps?), the city will start rolling out public pay toilets in Madison Square Park this June. The facilities will charge 25 cents per flush, and supposedly clean themselves after each use. But looking at this picture of a sample model, we're not sure what that cleaning will include--you'll still have to rip out your own paper cover. Why not copy the Portland Jetport in Portland, Maine, and get those magical machines that refresh their own protective covers?

[Photo: Das Bobby 2000]

Related Stories:
· Pay Toilets Coming to NYC (finally) [Metroblogging NYC]
· Coming to Madison Square Park: Relief at a Quarter a Flush [NYT]
· Potty Sexism at the Portland Jetport [Jaunted]