The city will install five public restrooms in separate city parks at a cost of approximately $5.3 million, according to the Parks department.
These five new toilets are part of a pilot project and their installation coincides with an initiative by several city legislators to increase the number of places where New Yorkers can relieve themselves, due to the difficulty of finding publicly accessible toilets in many areas of New York. York.
The Parks department announced that they will install these high-tech metal toilets called “Portland Loos” in one park per county.
They are designed as curved newsstands and with panels that offer more privacy.
Portland Loos also include a changing table and handwashing station inside.
The proposed sites where the toilets will be installed are:
Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem,
Parque Irving Square en Bushwick,
Hoyt Playground in Astoria,
Joyce Kilmer Park in the South Bronx,
and Padre Macris Park on Staten Island.
All of these are parks currently do not have public restrooms.
The installation of these spaces is part of a pilot program of the Parks Department that seeks to bring more bathrooms to the parks at a lower cost.
Each of these facilities costs about $185,000, but the project is expected to cost the city up to $5.3 million.
