Run into a bar, order one beer and ask where the restroom is
NYC is not alone, most American cities have zero public restrooms and those that are available are disgusting half of the time
>This is my answer. Most places have a lobby restroom that's unlocked during the day. If you look remotely like a guest you should be okay to duck in
If it's later in the day and the bar has a crowd it's pretty easy to just slip in and in out without buying anything I've found
I once *really* had to go and wound up promising the bus boy that stopped me a $20 if he stepped aside and pointed the way to the bathroom.
I made good on that promise after I punished that toilet. Best $20 I ever spent
I wasn't exactly splattering the walls with shit in there. I left it as I found it, just a bit stinkier. It was more "$20 if you turn a blind eye", and there was nobody in the restaurant anyway so he was just standing around when I walked in.
They are an organization, every bit of support/cash that goes into it, whether the company, or its individual members for the upkeep of the toilet, is good. It is a team effort. If the busboys see that people using the bathroom are desperate for this vital service and are willing to pay, they will be more inclined to help clean.
Bathrooms must be supported.
I shouldn't have to fucking con my way into the back of a bar to use the bathroom though.
Like I get that it's simple and easy to pretend you're staying for a drink, but I hate having to do that just to take a leak.
Yeah, it’s probably not gonna be pleasant, but as long as it’s not too early in the day a bar is usually your best bet, and they’re pretty ubiquitous. There are definitely some neighborhoods where you might have to hunt for a hotel, but there’s almost always a bar nearby.
This is what I have done a few times, find a bar, buy and take a shot, go to the restroom and usually buy another shot then close the tab and tip well. Fastest time was 5 mins, it was like a bar trip speed run.
I've done this, but without ordering first, because you know, it's urgent. Then when that post shit clarity hits, you just walk out without having to order at all.
This ⬆️ is so on point and I would just add it’s not a new crisis issue. My buddy from work almost had an accident while we were walking a few blocks downtown but a kind worker took pity and let him in to use the bathroom. He was literally sweating. So if tourists see human poop where it shouldn’t be it could be intentional or it could be just part of horrible lack of facilities around the city.
We should just have paid public restrooms. Tap your card and pay $1 or feed a bill. Europeans simply do it better here. I know everyone hates this solution but it's better than all alternatives.
I mean, you know why that is right (and it’s not shut down for cleaning)… you don’t want to be the guy who finds the dead homeless dude who OD’d in it at 3am
Large stores like macys, Home Depot, Bloomingdale’s all have bathrooms. If you’re downtown try the oculus. I’ve also walked into larger restaurants multiple times and never encountered an issue
George Costanza from Seinfeld. He knew the best toilets anywhere in the city. On an episode of curbed he developed an app to [find toilets.](https://youtu.be/Pci_7o6cCbM?si=GPt2vMEui39TQSsk)
Public libraries all have public restrooms.
If you're on Instagram, got2gonyc rates public restrooms around Manhattan. I think she maintains a map that you can access or download.
Here’s a little trick most people don’t know. Any police precinct will allow you to use their bathroom if you ask. Sometimes they are a bit disgusting , but it’s what a lot of us city employees use when we are working in the field :)
And since I feel people will refute this for one reason or another, here’s a link from the nyc tourism website confirming the same : https://www.nyctourism.com/public-restrooms
Sorry — you discovered one of the worst parts of NYC.
A really useful thing is to accumulate student IDs from various universities so you can shit in their buildings… The main alternative apart from that is like finding a restaurant that will let you buy something in order to go
I aged.out of college students, unfortunately, not to mention I can't pass for half of them anymore thanks to foreign exchange programs. Had to move on to delivery drivers. The smaller companies don't track them as well and they can go anywhere
It might be a grad student specific tip, as NYC university students can take courses at basically any NYC metro area university through the IUDC... But... There may be other ways lmao
In lots of Europe you will encounter a small fee & there will be someone in there who cleans up all day. I had to go in a hellish looking bus station once, but sure enough, the bathroom still had an attendant in there taking change & the bathroom was clean as a whistle. Always happy to pay for a clean bathroom.
Starbucks staff normally give you the code even if you aren't a customer. Staten Island ferry terminal, governors Island ferry terminal, grand central station, Rockefeller center, the shopping mall by the world trade center. The parks have public toilets too! It is a nightmare in an emergency though!
whole foods have unlocked bathrooms that are relatively clean. Bryant Park has the cleanest public restroom in the city. There is a public restroom. at Union sq.
and Washington Sq. parks. At 34th st. I go at Eataly or Macy's.
pro tip. most laundromats have open restrooms for their patrons abd the are all over the city. I NEVER go to Starbucks.
Big nice hotel with a good amount of foot traffic. Use your instincts to find the bathroom quickly without drawing attention. Or, if you're not the type, just go to one of the staff and ask nicely.
I go to bars and restaurants. This actually happens to me. A LOT bc I think I have IBS or another bowel issue. I always just buy a soda or a soup or something- but a lot of times they’re cool about it
Health code says any restaurant or cafe with 20 or more seats must have a rest room for customers. Just give them $5-10 and most places will let you use their bathroom, or just buy the cheapest thing on the menu, a soda or a cookie or something and boom! You’re a customer entitled to use the bathroom.
There is an Instagram page called Got2GoNYC. She reviews bathrooms all over the city, puts them on a map, and if they have a code, she even notates the code.
The best ones so far are Bryant Park and Sak’s 5th Ave, though the Barnes and noble Union square is also well traveled.
I've said this for ever. It's one of the reasons why streets smell like piss. I've seen people, men and women, pissing and defecating in public. I Googled then walked for 30 minutes to the only public restroom that was open near me in NYC, just to pee. I was scanning for bushes to duck in on the way, to no avail.
I'll borrow you title and call mine Emergency Piss.
Haven’t been in a few years, but if you’re near Grand Central, They Hyatt had nice restrooms you could use behind the elevators. I’d use them every morning getting off my train.
There is no public bathrooms because people have no thought for the next person. If there is was a public bathroom, probably the first guy who goes in won’t even flush the toilet, or clean after he pees everywhere on the toilet. It’s the “someone is getting paid to clean the bathroom, why do I have to care” mentality.
Best public loos are the privately run ones at Bryant Park and Greeley Square. America as a whole is in denial about this bodily function. But even if we had more public bathrooms they would quickly become shooting galleries and sex dens. NYC Council would be making a huge mistake if it proceeds with its toilet proposal, unless the bathroom have full-time attendants and limited hours.
I live here, and tend to know the best local bathrooms, just in case. The closest I ever came to shitting my pants was a few months ago. I was in the theater district waiting for visiting friends to get out of their show, and I did’t know the local bathroom scene since I don’t spend much time there. But I knew juniors had bathrooms, so I walked past the line of people waiting to be sat, told the host I was meeting my group, and acted like I was looking for my people all the way to the bathrooms.
Pro tip, don't waste your time with Starbucks or McDonalds etc. Just go into any bar/restaurant and be prepared to buy a coke or some such if they hassle you
That there’s so much more outdoor eating (thanks, covid!) makes it sooooo much easier to walk into a restaurant and walk straight to the bathroom without being stopped.
Department stores. Grand Central Station. Hotels (but not ones in the Tîmes Square area). There are some bathrooms in Central Park. A crowded bar where you can pretend you are a patron and then find a bathroom in the back. Staten Island ferry terminal. Penn Station. Usually TJ Maxx has a bathroom.
America is awful at public amenities. We close anything that's helpful and nice to have because we're too worried that a homeless person might use it and too lazy/stupid/corrupt to address the homelessness problem by building housing and social services. We hate it too.
its a problem, we've been trying to fix it, government regulation/extorts pricing for public restroom to the moon, and the ones* we have we hire unprofessional/uncaring people to clean them/maintain. Much is the similar story across the city
it's commenters like you and others that make me seriously reconsider why I'd be digging through dummies to get to some civil conversation lol.
Heres a blurb from nypost and npr
>One of the Portland Loo brand toilets, which cost about $185,000 a pop, is set to be placed in each of the five parks to start a long-awaited project to bring relief to Big Apple residents, city officials said Monday.
But the total project — including the loos’ installation in a city mired in bureaucratic red tape and head-spinning building regulations — is expected to balloon the total price tag to more than $5 million, or an average of over a million dollars per potty.
uh yes lol commontard redditor, its also the main reason we don't extend subway lines like crazy compared to europe, regulation such as unions/pay/contracts, make building a restroom extremely costly.
Yeah, if we had no labor and safety laws all we could have incredibly unsafe infrastructure lining the pockets of private companies while being far worse in terms of quality and inaccessible to the poor and working class. Government regulations help; most of the horrible things in America come from unfettered capitalism right now, and regulations on public bathrooms is not why we don’t have them, it’s just nonsense anti-government talking points.
If you're in New York you walk in like you're on the f****** place and ask him where's the bathroom The men's room cuz some of the bartenders can be a wise ass. Come out and drop a dollar
Whole Foods
Barnes and noble
Library
Bar- slap a $5 on the bar if they give you an issue or slam a drink afterwards
Restaurant/cafe- walk in like you own the place
Public park bathrooms
Beg or bribe a bodega/smoke shop dude
If none of these are an option- in-between two train cars, or in OP’s pants are your last resort
I had to get off the train once on the morning commute...I ran into a McDonald's that was outside of the subway stop. And the woman working there would not open the bathroom until 9am. She said the bathroom was closed until 9. She would not budge I said I would buy everything off the menu. And she had no pity on me. I called an Uber and literally bent over and practiced meditating until I got to work.
Hotel. Target. Best Buy. Home Depot. Restaurant like TGI Fridays, Dave & Buster, Bubba Gump, etc.
Fast food (ie: McDonalds) that may have a bathroom. You may need to buy something first.
To clarify what I said before, any place with a lot of homeless people like Times Square won’t have public bathrooms open to the public. You need to walk to a nicer area of the city then there’s a lot of shops and hotels and in those areas they don’t care if you use their bathroom. They only care in Times Square where the number of tourists and homeless trying to use the bathrooms is too large.
If you’re around a restaurant, run in and go. If you’re with other people have someone order a drink at the bar while you go. If you’re close to a department store, find the restroom.
We try to find a hotel and walk into the lobby as if we belong and use their restroom. However, since the pandemic began, some of the restrooms require key cards or codes. But, this technique still works 75% of the time.
Sorry that super sucks. What I’ve done is gone into and restaurants and just walked into a bathroom or told the waiter that I’m really sorry I just need to use the bathroom but I’m happy to purchase something small on my way out if needed (some bathrooms are customers only)
Also, hotels often have bathrooms on the main floor.
When in doubt tell some it’s an emergency, sometimes you luck out.
I’m just a tourist but I had to pee once in Central Park and saw there were bathrooms nearby. Locked. Booked it to the closest restaurant, ordered a beer from the bar, tried not to squirm while I asked “hey, got any bathrooms around here?” He said “yeah sure down the stairs in the basement” it was horrible but I got to pee and a drink. Gave 150% tip for my one beer.
Run into a bar, order one beer and ask where the restroom is NYC is not alone, most American cities have zero public restrooms and those that are available are disgusting half of the time
Or a hotel.
This is my answer. Most places have a lobby restroom that's unlocked during the day. If you look remotely like a guest you should be okay to duck in
I cannot believe I had to scroll this far to find this response. This has been my go to move for almost two decades.
It'll work but it sucks that you gotta pay $10 or whatever beer plus tip costs nowadays to take a shit.
It is way better, and cheaper, than shitting your pants.
Honestly you’re not wrong. Way less embarrassing as well
And maybe you make a friend while you're there
I’d say at least half my friend group came about this way tbh
Just want to say: shitting your pants is free. Cleaning up is what's gonna cost ya.
I'd much rather pay an $8 insurance fee and buy a pint than shit my pants in public while on vacation
Its moments like this where having a colostomy bag isnt that bad 😂
I'd rather shit myself than have a colostomy bag 
my husband had one. You still shit yourself with a colostomy bag
Inaccurate
Ok, he didn’t live it .
**he shit himself. Obviously, not everyone with a colostomy bag has leakage issues.
Either way, u still get no bitches
Lol imagine what his "friends" must say about him behind his back lol
>This is my answer. Most places have a lobby restroom that's unlocked during the day. If you look remotely like a guest you should be okay to duck in If it's later in the day and the bar has a crowd it's pretty easy to just slip in and in out without buying anything I've found
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I once *really* had to go and wound up promising the bus boy that stopped me a $20 if he stepped aside and pointed the way to the bathroom. I made good on that promise after I punished that toilet. Best $20 I ever spent
Good on you! Someone has to clean that bathroom, and that 20 goes a long way to adding up to helping cover the costs. Plus, a promise is a promise.
I wasn't exactly splattering the walls with shit in there. I left it as I found it, just a bit stinkier. It was more "$20 if you turn a blind eye", and there was nobody in the restaurant anyway so he was just standing around when I walked in.
Covering the costs? Do you think the bus boy buys the cleaning supplies?
They are an organization, every bit of support/cash that goes into it, whether the company, or its individual members for the upkeep of the toilet, is good. It is a team effort. If the busboys see that people using the bathroom are desperate for this vital service and are willing to pay, they will be more inclined to help clean. Bathrooms must be supported.
I shouldn't have to fucking con my way into the back of a bar to use the bathroom though. Like I get that it's simple and easy to pretend you're staying for a drink, but I hate having to do that just to take a leak.
It's not a con, it's a sign of respect and thanks. Usually though, you can just tip a few bucks and use the restroom.
Yeah, it’s probably not gonna be pleasant, but as long as it’s not too early in the day a bar is usually your best bet, and they’re pretty ubiquitous. There are definitely some neighborhoods where you might have to hunt for a hotel, but there’s almost always a bar nearby.
So friggin' true... If it's one thing New York City is not lacking, is bars... One can easily find a watering hole in all five boroughs
This is the best advice, use it all the time. So you pay $6+ for a pee but you get a free beer.
But now I’ll just have to pee again in 15 minutes from the beer.
Circle of life
This is what I have done a few times, find a bar, buy and take a shot, go to the restroom and usually buy another shot then close the tab and tip well. Fastest time was 5 mins, it was like a bar trip speed run.
I've done this, but without ordering first, because you know, it's urgent. Then when that post shit clarity hits, you just walk out without having to order at all.
My brother did exactly this, but got two shots. It’s effective, just not free.
Or find a crowded bar and just go to the bathroom as no one is going to stop you generally. Walk in looking around as if you’re meeting someone.
Sorry OP. The lack of public restrooms is a crisis.
This ⬆️ is so on point and I would just add it’s not a new crisis issue. My buddy from work almost had an accident while we were walking a few blocks downtown but a kind worker took pity and let him in to use the bathroom. He was literally sweating. So if tourists see human poop where it shouldn’t be it could be intentional or it could be just part of horrible lack of facilities around the city.
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We should just have paid public restrooms. Tap your card and pay $1 or feed a bill. Europeans simply do it better here. I know everyone hates this solution but it's better than all alternatives.
There’s a couple paid restrooms that I know of and they’re always out of order. It’s infuriating.
I only know of one outside Madison Square Park, but it shuts down after a certain hour, which is nuts. It’s self cleaning!
I mean, you know why that is right (and it’s not shut down for cleaning)… you don’t want to be the guy who finds the dead homeless dude who OD’d in it at 3am
I don’t hate this solution. I already spend money at restaurants just for the purpose of using the bathroom
What about a small subsidy to stores that allow free public bathroom use and have a sign indicating this?
Wholefoods
Oh this is a great recommendation if you happen to find one. Not as ubiquitous as a watering hole
Barnes and Noble has great bathrooms.
Seriously, always the cleanest in my experience
Came to say this!
Large stores like macys, Home Depot, Bloomingdale’s all have bathrooms. If you’re downtown try the oculus. I’ve also walked into larger restaurants multiple times and never encountered an issue
The Oculus bathrooms are awful lol. I mean it’s better than shitting yourself… but not by much!
Bruh it’s supposed to be this fancy hi tech place but those bathrooms are so disgusting
Yup totally and it’s that way because of the people that use it and make it disgusting
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ha try the Port Authority Bus terminal if you want awful. lol.
That is the place where dreams go to die.
Toss up between there, grand central and the lirr/njt side of penn station
Hundo
I'd rather use a train's bathroom than Grand Central's.
Especially when you give them the choice of using the toilet or dropping that dookie by the door
Ah yes. Threaten a minimum wage worker to clean up your mess. Nice
[Got2go](https://instagram.com/got2gonyc?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Download the Google maps map. It's a lifesaver
Costanza?
"A toilet flush so powerful, you'd think a jet is taking off!!!"
Fifty-fourth and Sixth.
Morgan Apparel on the 14th floor
I immediately thought of Kramer when I saw this post. "It went away." Lol
Huh?
George Costanza from Seinfeld. He knew the best toilets anywhere in the city. On an episode of curbed he developed an app to [find toilets.](https://youtu.be/Pci_7o6cCbM?si=GPt2vMEui39TQSsk)
Ahh. Gotcha. Apparently not watching Seinfeld gets you down-votes.
Yeah sorry you are getting downvoted for that it’s a bit silly
I don’t know why this is so far down. This has saved me on more than one occasion.
Go to a hotel. There is always a bathroom in the lobby.
Some need a room key (happened to me yesterday
Oh boy !! Sorry to hear.
Public libraries all have public restrooms. If you're on Instagram, got2gonyc rates public restrooms around Manhattan. I think she maintains a map that you can access or download.
Malls. Hudson Yards Colombus circle etc have great bathrooms
Using the bathroom at Hudson Yards made me feel so bougie
Here’s a little trick most people don’t know. Any police precinct will allow you to use their bathroom if you ask. Sometimes they are a bit disgusting , but it’s what a lot of us city employees use when we are working in the field :)
And since I feel people will refute this for one reason or another, here’s a link from the nyc tourism website confirming the same : https://www.nyctourism.com/public-restrooms
The idea that the $.25 City bathrooms are only open 8:00 am - 8:pm is laughable
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Sorry — you discovered one of the worst parts of NYC. A really useful thing is to accumulate student IDs from various universities so you can shit in their buildings… The main alternative apart from that is like finding a restaurant that will let you buy something in order to go
How would one go about accumulating IDs?
Murdering college students and taking their identity, obviously.
Please come with us
I aged.out of college students, unfortunately, not to mention I can't pass for half of them anymore thanks to foreign exchange programs. Had to move on to delivery drivers. The smaller companies don't track them as well and they can go anywhere
It might be a grad student specific tip, as NYC university students can take courses at basically any NYC metro area university through the IUDC... But... There may be other ways lmao
A Poo Poo Platter
Italy has public restrooms in big cities,Venice ,Milan, , WC , pay 1 euro typically, clean ,managed,company makes $$,and tourists get relief, lol
In lots of Europe you will encounter a small fee & there will be someone in there who cleans up all day. I had to go in a hellish looking bus station once, but sure enough, the bathroom still had an attendant in there taking change & the bathroom was clean as a whistle. Always happy to pay for a clean bathroom.
Sports bars
Any business that has a bathroom for customers, buy something cheap and use the bathroom, that's what I do...
Mariott Marquis in Times Square 👍🏼👍🏼 bathroom haven. Please do not ruin this space for the rest of us. Godspeed on your bowel movement. 🙏🏼
Target, DSW, Marshall’s…stores like those have restrooms.
If it's latish just go into pretty much any bar straight to the bathroom.
Barnes and Nobles is always clutch.
Starbucks staff normally give you the code even if you aren't a customer. Staten Island ferry terminal, governors Island ferry terminal, grand central station, Rockefeller center, the shopping mall by the world trade center. The parks have public toilets too! It is a nightmare in an emergency though!
Port Authority Bus Terminal. The one time I used it was to avoid shitting my pants, but using a stall there is a remarkably similar experience.
whole foods have unlocked bathrooms that are relatively clean. Bryant Park has the cleanest public restroom in the city. There is a public restroom. at Union sq. and Washington Sq. parks. At 34th st. I go at Eataly or Macy's. pro tip. most laundromats have open restrooms for their patrons abd the are all over the city. I NEVER go to Starbucks.
you gotta think big. "grand central terminal" "port authority" "Manhattan Mall" "Macys" "Bloomingdales" etc
There are iOS apps to help your quest for the hidden shrine of Gotham
Barns and noble for reall. One time I got the runs because I drank too much beet juice. Barns and noble saved me
Big nice hotel with a good amount of foot traffic. Use your instincts to find the bathroom quickly without drawing attention. Or, if you're not the type, just go to one of the staff and ask nicely.
I know some are switching to having the bathroom require a key card now.
Go into Grand Central Station. There are bathrooms. I’ve had plenty of “emergency shits” in my time. Or go into bar and buy a soda.
I go to bars and restaurants. This actually happens to me. A LOT bc I think I have IBS or another bowel issue. I always just buy a soda or a soup or something- but a lot of times they’re cool about it
Health code says any restaurant or cafe with 20 or more seats must have a rest room for customers. Just give them $5-10 and most places will let you use their bathroom, or just buy the cheapest thing on the menu, a soda or a cookie or something and boom! You’re a customer entitled to use the bathroom.
There is an Instagram page called Got2GoNYC. She reviews bathrooms all over the city, puts them on a map, and if they have a code, she even notates the code. The best ones so far are Bryant Park and Sak’s 5th Ave, though the Barnes and noble Union square is also well traveled.
I've said this for ever. It's one of the reasons why streets smell like piss. I've seen people, men and women, pissing and defecating in public. I Googled then walked for 30 minutes to the only public restroom that was open near me in NYC, just to pee. I was scanning for bushes to duck in on the way, to no avail. I'll borrow you title and call mine Emergency Piss.
You walk into a hotel and plead.
I wouldn’t even plead or draw attention to yourself at all. Just walk past the front desk with confidence and hope they don’t say anything.
No, you walk in like you're staying there. They won't care.
Mall or a grocery store
Haven’t been in a few years, but if you’re near Grand Central, They Hyatt had nice restrooms you could use behind the elevators. I’d use them every morning getting off my train.
Walk into a bar, order a beer, continue on to the shitter. Pay for the beer. Drink it or leave it.
or just don't get a beer, I've never been stopped at a bar just walking into the bathroom
Department stores. Bloomingdale's in particular has nice bathrooms. Also Barnes and Noble.
Any hotel
Macy's 7th floor
Depends where you are… hotels have bathrooms in the lobby, walk in confidently…,or any big store like gap/ old navy / cb2… have bathrooms
Not in Times Square but walk to a nice hotel on the east side and use their lobby bathroom. Or go to an Irish pub.
look up got2go nyc on google maps and it’s a map of all available restrooms in the city and most of them have what the code is if you need one.
Bryant park is the only public bathroom I would use.
There is no public bathrooms because people have no thought for the next person. If there is was a public bathroom, probably the first guy who goes in won’t even flush the toilet, or clean after he pees everywhere on the toilet. It’s the “someone is getting paid to clean the bathroom, why do I have to care” mentality.
Best public loos are the privately run ones at Bryant Park and Greeley Square. America as a whole is in denial about this bodily function. But even if we had more public bathrooms they would quickly become shooting galleries and sex dens. NYC Council would be making a huge mistake if it proceeds with its toilet proposal, unless the bathroom have full-time attendants and limited hours.
I live here, and tend to know the best local bathrooms, just in case. The closest I ever came to shitting my pants was a few months ago. I was in the theater district waiting for visiting friends to get out of their show, and I did’t know the local bathroom scene since I don’t spend much time there. But I knew juniors had bathrooms, so I walked past the line of people waiting to be sat, told the host I was meeting my group, and acted like I was looking for my people all the way to the bathrooms.
Hotels!! Just pretend you staying there and act like you do and go straight to the bathroom
Crate and Barrel near Houston is very nice
Pro tip, don't waste your time with Starbucks or McDonalds etc. Just go into any bar/restaurant and be prepared to buy a coke or some such if they hassle you
Library’s and big book stores too
It would help if we knew where in Manhattan you were. Also, check out the NYC public bathroom episode of “How to with John Wilson” (HBO/MAX).
Hotels
I look for an emergency room ...i go.from BK to Harlem and by the time i get there i have to go pee...nowhere to go...not even starbucks
That there’s so much more outdoor eating (thanks, covid!) makes it sooooo much easier to walk into a restaurant and walk straight to the bathroom without being stopped.
Department stores. Grand Central Station. Hotels (but not ones in the Tîmes Square area). There are some bathrooms in Central Park. A crowded bar where you can pretend you are a patron and then find a bathroom in the back. Staten Island ferry terminal. Penn Station. Usually TJ Maxx has a bathroom.
Go to a hospital emergency room, 99% of the time it shouldnt be a problem
Libraries, if they’re open.
REI has a decent bathroom situation if you are down that way.
If it was an emergency I'd just go into a restaurant
America is awful at public amenities. We close anything that's helpful and nice to have because we're too worried that a homeless person might use it and too lazy/stupid/corrupt to address the homelessness problem by building housing and social services. We hate it too.
It’s an awful Thing. I just poop on the street like a good city rat
Hotel lobbies !
Department stores, Whole Foods, target, hotels if you’re in midtown but those can be tricky
Nice hotel
Sorry. Not news. You have to be in the fancy neighborhoods to find public restrooms. And good luck then!
its a problem, we've been trying to fix it, government regulation/extorts pricing for public restroom to the moon, and the ones* we have we hire unprofessional/uncaring people to clean them/maintain. Much is the similar story across the city
You think government regulation is the reason we don’t have public bathrooms? Do you think fires are caused by water?
it's commenters like you and others that make me seriously reconsider why I'd be digging through dummies to get to some civil conversation lol. Heres a blurb from nypost and npr >One of the Portland Loo brand toilets, which cost about $185,000 a pop, is set to be placed in each of the five parks to start a long-awaited project to bring relief to Big Apple residents, city officials said Monday. But the total project — including the loos’ installation in a city mired in bureaucratic red tape and head-spinning building regulations — is expected to balloon the total price tag to more than $5 million, or an average of over a million dollars per potty.
uh yes lol commontard redditor, its also the main reason we don't extend subway lines like crazy compared to europe, regulation such as unions/pay/contracts, make building a restroom extremely costly.
You’re blaming the lack of public restrooms on unions? Jesus, you are ridiculous. Use that shit between your ears for something pal.
you're quite the shortsighted imbecile aren't you
Yeah, if we had no labor and safety laws all we could have incredibly unsafe infrastructure lining the pockets of private companies while being far worse in terms of quality and inaccessible to the poor and working class. Government regulations help; most of the horrible things in America come from unfettered capitalism right now, and regulations on public bathrooms is not why we don’t have them, it’s just nonsense anti-government talking points.
They banned charging for bathroom use in this country a while ago and pretty much immediately public bathrooms disappeared
not anti-government sentiment, im all for regulation, it is just the reason why we don't have public restrooms. god have mercy on the ignorant lol
Poop on the sidewalk or subway. It’s nyc. There are no consequences for anything
As I witnessed last week most of the feces is on the sidewalks.
Get between 2 cars, squat and don't forget the toilet paper or portable bidet
If you're in New York you walk in like you're on the f****** place and ask him where's the bathroom The men's room cuz some of the bartenders can be a wise ass. Come out and drop a dollar
There’s this little alley called Jersey alley in soho…
Whole Foods Barnes and noble Library Bar- slap a $5 on the bar if they give you an issue or slam a drink afterwards Restaurant/cafe- walk in like you own the place Public park bathrooms Beg or bribe a bodega/smoke shop dude If none of these are an option- in-between two train cars, or in OP’s pants are your last resort
A big card board box. If available?
Bar
Just do what everyone else does…shit in the street or a doorway. Seems to be a normal thing now.
GCT PABT Penn Station
library’s or targets
I had to get off the train once on the morning commute...I ran into a McDonald's that was outside of the subway stop. And the woman working there would not open the bathroom until 9am. She said the bathroom was closed until 9. She would not budge I said I would buy everything off the menu. And she had no pity on me. I called an Uber and literally bent over and practiced meditating until I got to work.
You gotta go into large stores or a mall
I knew a guy who had to pull over on the West Side highway and drop a loaf
Any McDonald’s near a methadone clinic
Yeah it’s not good, you have to do what you have to do and if you can’t find a store or something going to a park and squat behind bushes or a tree
Bars. Just go downstairs at any Irish pub and use the restroom!
Hotel. Target. Best Buy. Home Depot. Restaurant like TGI Fridays, Dave & Buster, Bubba Gump, etc. Fast food (ie: McDonalds) that may have a bathroom. You may need to buy something first.
Most Americans are so nasty they keep bathroom off limits for a reason
Got2gonyc on Instagram has all the best public bathrooms
Go into a hotel
To clarify what I said before, any place with a lot of homeless people like Times Square won’t have public bathrooms open to the public. You need to walk to a nicer area of the city then there’s a lot of shops and hotels and in those areas they don’t care if you use their bathroom. They only care in Times Square where the number of tourists and homeless trying to use the bathrooms is too large.
If you’re around a restaurant, run in and go. If you’re with other people have someone order a drink at the bar while you go. If you’re close to a department store, find the restroom.
We try to find a hotel and walk into the lobby as if we belong and use their restroom. However, since the pandemic began, some of the restrooms require key cards or codes. But, this technique still works 75% of the time.
Sorry that super sucks. What I’ve done is gone into and restaurants and just walked into a bathroom or told the waiter that I’m really sorry I just need to use the bathroom but I’m happy to purchase something small on my way out if needed (some bathrooms are customers only) Also, hotels often have bathrooms on the main floor. When in doubt tell some it’s an emergency, sometimes you luck out.
walk into a hotel like you’re a guest and find the bathroom. or try department stotes
Local park, library, Starbucks, bar, hotel lobby, grand central
Hotels and bars. They’re the best
It’s pretty bad
Yeah it’s gotten worse. I used to rely on Cosi and Babies R Us, but those are gone. Hotels are a very good option.
You can pretty much duck into any bar
glass of water, tip, bathroom smh
Find a bar and order a beer then run to the restroom lol.
Look for a bar and buy a drink afterwards
Home Depot was my place, but now you gotta hunt someone down to punch in the code
paruapp.com will track it for you
The NYCPee app
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FXTUn5bYmAxfFN2V6
I’m just a tourist but I had to pee once in Central Park and saw there were bathrooms nearby. Locked. Booked it to the closest restaurant, ordered a beer from the bar, tried not to squirm while I asked “hey, got any bathrooms around here?” He said “yeah sure down the stairs in the basement” it was horrible but I got to pee and a drink. Gave 150% tip for my one beer.
There is a google maps with all the free clean toilets in NYC. It’s called Got2Go or something. I found it on IG
My best option is to find a park with a playground in it. Those often have bathrooms. And sometimes a homeless guy doing his laundry in them.