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We’re 33.3% through NaBloPoMo<\/a>, only 66.7% to go! In honor of making it to the 1\/3rd mark I thought I’d do today’s post photo essay style.<\/p>\n

Today’s topic is:<\/p>\n

The Most Bestest* Public Bathroom in Manhattan**<\/b><\/p>\n

* Because for some reason after class this evening I described the burgers at Shake Shack<\/a> to a fellow student as “the most bestest burgers you have ever eaten.” Ah, Fridays, when the rush of the week smacks you full in the brain.<\/p>\n

** There might be nicer bathrooms in the other boroughs, I haven’t really had a chance to check.<\/p>\n

If you are ever in need of a restroom and are within walking distance of Bryant Park<\/a>, just head on over to the public toilets on the northeast corner of the park, tucked in next to the NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library.<\/p>\n

The luxury of this bathroom is unbelievable, especially for those of us accustomed to the toilet-seat-(and-paper)-free, soap-less and stinky cabins that pass for public bathrooms at (some) playgrounds. So I’ve documented today’s excursion photographically for you. Prepare to be dazzled!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a shot of the exterior. Looks pretty standard, right? Note the lounging tourists.<\/p>\n

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Wait, are those fresh<\/b> flowers?! Why yes, they are. A whole ginormous urnfull, in fact!<\/p>\n

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There was a gaggle of young gals availing themselves of the facilities, so while waiting in line I snapped this detail of the tilework.<\/p>\n

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Just look at this sink: more fresh flowers, marble counters, SOAP and automatic RUNNING WATER…my god, it’s like you’re at a hotel or something!<\/p>\n

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And the stalls, they are made of real laminated wood! Not dented metal with grafitti sharpied everywhere (“Mommy, what does s-k-a-n-k-y h-o spell?”)<\/p>\n

But no, gentle readers, it gets better…<\/p>\n

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The toilet, it has a magical red button, which when pressed causes a fresh AND sanitary seat cover to be magically dispensed for you, like magic!<\/p>\n

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Last, but not least, the automatic hand dryers, which are made by a company called Xlerator (bonus points for spelling!). Indeed, they must be powered by rocket sauce<\/a>, because the air blast is so mighty that it pushes the skin on your hand like some crazy astronaut g-force or something (and actually DRIES your hands, rather than just pushing the water around like those inferior, non-Xlerated dryers).<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled, un-illustrated blathering. But I leave you with this, a view of the urban splendor around Bryant Park on this beautiful day in the city (sunny, high around 60F):<\/p>\n

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We’re 33.3% through NaBloPoMo, only 66.7% to go! In honor of making it to the 1\/3rd mark I thought I’d do today’s post photo essay style. Today’s topic is: The Most Bestest* Public Bathroom in Manhattan** * Because for some reason after class this evening I described the burgers at Shake Shack to a fellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}