Manhattan Offender

So, like, proposing "child-free" areas in public parks would probably get the mommy-squads all pissy, right?

Caption this.

Seriously. Words have, for once, failed me.

Offensive - Manhattan's worst building?

Rising up from 23rd Street like a scar on the sky, this lot downgraded to a nasty blemish of glass and steel from a junkie-laden McDonald's.

Longest Shake Shack line ever (so long it can't be captured on an iPhone) signifies many things

1. It's Spring, finally.
2. Despite the economic free fall, people will still spend ¥£€$'s on a decent burger.
3. Other people have really leisurely lives.

Toilet live blog: Post-mortem

Ultimately, the toilet in Madison Square Park is a curious little piece of engineering.  When you walk in, it is soaking wet from the self-clean function.  There's this total desire to stay in during the cleaning to see what happens, but the prospect of a jet stream of feces-mingled water kills it for me.  Why there are three "emergency phone" buttons is a curiosity.  As is the difference between an "emergency" and an "assistance" call.

I'll revisit when the mood strikes me to check on progress.  It seems that a quarter is a bit cheap, all said and done.  But this story was never about a Manhattan's first in a series of new pay toilets.  It was about how we live now.  We can report from everywhere now, on the most insignificant of things.  And we keep our focus on the lowest of things.  The toilet.

More interior shots post-jump.

Toilet live blog IX

Just in case things don't come out right (ugh!) there's a helpful 
Cemusa truck right outside.

That's it for now.  I'll post some detailed interior shots later today.

Toilet live blog VIII

I'll wash my hands of this whole affair!  Ha!  So very funny/mental I 
am!  Also. There's no sign saying not to drink the water, so you could 
save the $1.50 for your Fiji water and just refill for 25 cents on NYC 
toilet tap!

Toilet live blog VII

Oo!  A full-length mirror makes this worth my 25 cents.  Hell, I'd pay 
50!

Toilet live blog VI

At last, using the toilet for more than blogfaggery.  Sweet release!   
But I don't see a way for the ladies or the poopypants people to sit.   
Eep!

Toilet live blog V

This is perhaps the most complicated toilet you will ever use.  Lots 
of bells and whistles that I'll post later today.  You've probably 
figuredout by now that my phone isn't keeping up with me.  So detail 
shots will come later.  But there is a reason for being here.   
Something inside me that I have to get out.