City Room: New Yorkers, You May Be Excused: A Pay Toilet Opens
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The first of 20 pay toilets opened today in Manhattan's Madison Square Park. Costing only 25 cents, it will give a user 15 minutes of private time and automatically self-clean between uses.
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By COLLEEN LONG NEW YORK - Even amid the flashing lights and dizzying colors of Times Square, this is one tourist magnet that's hard to miss: a huge, glowing blue sign bearing the word &quot;Restrooms&quot; and an arrow pointing down.
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The minimum wage may be on its way up in New York, but one new study said the amount wouldn&#39;t be enough to pay rent in the state.
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I am often criticized for writing immature âbathroomâ humor, and not enough about important topics. So today Iâm going to write about a major international event that takes place Nov. 17-19 in Beijing, China: The World Toilet Summit.
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She only meant to be in there for a few minutes. But for Gwyneth Coles, 77, a trip to the public toilet in Pickering, North Yorkshire, proved something of an ordeal.
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A giant plastic toilet bowl on Berlin's swank Unter den Linden boulevard, the work of a French artist, has been raising more than a few eyebrows in recent days.
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Think twice before you flush the toilet. You might be sending evidence straight to the authorities - at least if you're getting high in  Italy or Switzerland.
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Interior designer Timothy Corrigan had  never heard of a "washlet" -- until a client asked him to  install one of the high-tech Japanese toilets.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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New York City, where tolls are $6 and putting your car in a parking garage for just an hour can run you $20, is already an expensive place to drive. Now the mayor wants to make it so costly some people won't even bother driving and will take mass transit instead.
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Opening a film with a small child straining on a toilet and talking about poop isnÂt just a bad idea; itÂs an invitation to unfortunate metaphor.
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Swiss authorities are bringing the city's public conveniences up to scratch &#151; at a cost of &#36;13 million for just 35 new toilets, Swiss daily Le Matin reported Tuesday.
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Packages containing 10,000 yen (40 pound) bills have been found this week in men&#39;s toilets at government offices throughout Japan, baffling officials as to why and who would do them such service.
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Owners of the Pleasant East apartments in East Harlem are done with renovations. But, as Jake Mooney found for this week's Dispatches feature, residents there say they still have reasons to be nervous.
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December 23, 2004 -- Here&#39;s a sobering thought: If you ever hurled a bowling ball at any of the pins at Greenwich Village&#39;s Bowl mor Lanes, you might have been subsidizing terror.
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If you're looking for a Manhattan apartment, be prepared to shell out about $2,000 a month &#151; unless, of course, you'd like a bedroom to go with it.
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When Naoko Ito uses a public bathroom, she cringes in embarrassment at the thought that other patrons can hear the sounds coming from her stall. That's when she turns to the "Sound Princess."