The MTA on Monday reopened 18 bathrooms at nine subway stations after all the system’s restrooms closed during the pandemic due to what officials claimed was a shortage of cleaners.
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But good luck locating a toilet in the subway stations. There are no way-finding signs in the stations to direct riders towards the loo. “Us old guys don’t want to urinate on the tracks, so it’s good,” he said Monday about the newly reopened toilets.“Don’t just open them, monitor them,” said Gavriyah. “Because it's still a lot of homeless people out and they'll use the bathrooms and lock themselves in, so people who really need to use them won't be able to use them.
Rosie Cola, a foreperson at lower Manhattan’s Fulton Street station who is in charge of keeping its bathrooms open, closed the subway toilet right at noon for cleaning.
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