I'd prefer the city reopen the subway toilets or in the park or offer an incentive if buildings would offer public toilets on the ground floor. This is not something that was discovered in the year 2000. It was a basic part of the human condition, and people out on the streets should make arrangements to take care of the physical needs. When they can't, there are stores, there are shops, there are all kinds of places where you can go. Whether merchants welcome non paying customers onto their premises is another question.
People have to exercise restraint, and people have to know when to go.
Giuliani says he will not comment on this the question of public toilets right now, and Stern says that people just have to learn how to control themselves. A padlocked subway toilet at the 96th Street and Broadway station. The subways are sure not are sure not much relief. Over one billion New Yorkers a year use the subway. There are 468 subway stops.