Allegedly, public toilets will some day be installed in Manhattan, probably right after this whole "New York fiscal crisis" people keep blathering about is over. Say, 2009? But House and Garden editor Mayer Rus thinks public toilets could pay for themselves: "For $50 on the Upper East Side, you'd get a malachite toilet with solid-gold hardware and a dispenser with La Prairie skin caviar or Cr me de la Mer. For $2 on the Lower East Side, you'd get a condom and a clean needle." Someone evidently hasn't been south of 57th Street in the last six years.
Big Question: Public Toilets [NY Mag]