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Will You Pay $8 For All-Day Access To Clean Toilets & Showers In Manhattan?
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 20, 2014
Modified Feb 20, 2014
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A new company is hoping that some New Yorkers and New Yorkers in need of a clean bathroom will pay big bucks for a comfort break. And by big, we mean $8 for a day pass, plus a $15 sign-up fee!
Posh Stow and Go is hoping its offering of clean bathrooms, showers, baby-changing stations and lockers will strike a chord. Its website outlines its offerings:
- Private lockers with re-settable digital locks
- Storage rooms for large packages too inconvenient to carry around all day
- Private powder rooms with touch-less faucets and flushers as well as baby changing stations - cleaned after each use by our staff
- Luxury showers in approximately one in every five rooms, as well as wheelchair accessible showers and ADA compliant bathrooms
Posh Stow and Go is also looking to open up lounges for nursing mothers. The company says it's opening up locations "in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central and Penn Station with street level access and no stairs to climb! And close to Times Square, The Empire State Building, 5th Ave shopping, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center…well, everything! Expansion locations will be in lower Manhattan near the ferries with easy access to the Freedom Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Greenwich Village and more."
Founder Wayne Parks told the NY Post, "I’m a germaphobe and I don’t like dirty bathrooms — it grosses me out... But these are great because they are cleaned after every use... It’s a resting place for visitors who don’t have homes or offices in Manhattan. It’s a place to drop something off, if you’re in a jam."
There's a $15 annual membership fee, and then you can pick options from $8/day to $42 for six days and $60 for 10 days. However, the Urban Justice Center's Douglas Lasdon tells the Post, "People would pay $8 to use it? It seems expensive — especially when the city should be providing it for free. What may happen is people will have what you might call a ‘toilet emergency’ and, in that situation, they might be willing to part with that much money, maybe." You could take a chance with a bathroom at a NYC park or refer to the secret list of bathrooms!
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Jen Chung
Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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