Zohran Mamdani wants to build public toilets. Costs and delays could stop him. The challenges of building new public bathrooms reflects the difficulty of building any public infrastructure in America.

#MayorMamdani wants dozens of factory-built public bathrooms. Delays and high costs could stand in the way. NYC has expensive union labor and heavy regulations. But we should be #FreeToPee.
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VOCAL-NY Applauds Mayor Mamdani’s Announcement to Expand Public Restrooms Across NYC | VOCAL-NY CONTACT: Mariah McGough, mariah@vocal-ny.org VOCAL-NY APPLAUDS MAYOR MAMDANI’S ANNOUNCEMENT TO EXPAND PUBLIC RESTROOMS ACROSS NYC Expansion Marks Win for the #FreeToPee Campaign Started by Picture the...

A win for #FreetoPee!

Over the weekend, @mayor.nyc.gov announced an expansion of public restrooms in NYC. Everyone deserves the access to the bathroom - especially though without living on the streets.

See our statement here:

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Mayor Mamdani to invest $4M to expand public bathrooms across NYC Mamdani announced a new program to increase the number of public restrooms in the city and specifically for high-quality modular public restrooms that don’t need to connect to city sewer and …

#MayorMamdani has promised to invest $4m to expand public bathrooms across NYC, not only in parks. We need to be #FreeToPee. Exact locations will be determined by the Dept. of Transportation and other agencies.
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Hopefully this is building off the work of #freetopee

Absolutely

#FreeToPee

Suggesting to all cis women that we use different public toilets as an act of civil disobedience. I will be using “male” toilets until trans people are #freetopee

Oh heck yes! Staffer with NYC is gonna meet with us about their #FreeToPee legislation !!! So cool!!!!

VICTORY!

The New York City Council, thanks to @cmsandynurse.bsky.social, just passed #FreeToPee legislation that would create, maintain, & report on 2,000+ public restrooms by 2035. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go — and now people in NYC won't have to purchase anything to meet their basic needs!

Today we are voting to make NYC flush with public toilets!

Thank you to my colleagues and to the #FreetoPee Coalition of advocates that turned out this morning in support of my bathroom bill Int. 694 going to a vote in a couple hours!

🗣️Tomorrow! Join the #FreetoPee coalition for a rally ahead of the Council vote on our Bathroom Bill!

We need a citywide public bathroom network of 2100+ restrooms. Why?

💩 We all gotta go
🩸 For menstruators
🤰🏿 For the pregnant
👵🏽 For older adults
👶🏻 For the babies
🚴🏽‍♀️ For workers
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 For everyone!

Our worry as we enter next year’s legislative sessions #freetopee

Everyone pees. But NYC has made that hard for everyone, closing hundreds of public restrooms over the last three decades. In fact, 15 self-cleaning bathrooms have been sitting in a warehouse in Queens for 12 years. #FreeToPee