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District 37 City Council Member Sandy Nurse chats with Thom Blaylock about 2025's Local Law 58, working with the new Mayor and figuring out how to keep bathrooms front of mind in the huge list of priorities for New York City. 

The other Impact Lab coaches, Alex Heil, Polly Trottenberg, Sarah Kaufman, Tiffany Charbonier and Pat Satterstrom weigh in on the implications of the interview. 

References: 

Sandy Nurse

Mayday Space as a community center

BK ROT picking up compost 

Vision Zero is still a thing

Money Ball as metaphor for the search for a single number to guage bathroom siting priorities. 

Impact Lab partner Julie Chou chats with Thom Blaylock and Polly Trottenberg about the history of NYC bathrooms and her recent research and advocacy for bathrooms in various new projects including the 175 Park Avenue POPS project. 

The other Impact Lab coaches, Alex Heil, Sarah Kaufman and Pat Satterstrom weigh in on the implications of the interview. 

References: 

Julie Chou

Citywide Strategy 2020 report

Good to Go, A Citywide Assessment of Public Restrooms 2024 report

community board 5

Picture the homeless

free to pee campaign

CEMUSA 2006 APT contract

Fair Fares expansion

1990 ADA passage

175 Park Avenue Pop

• Note, only one mention of public restrooms in this prospectus and that is from a note from the Manhattan Borough President about the lack of toilets within the transit hall underground. There are still no plans to include toilets in either the POPS or the transit hall. 

CB5 Approval of 175 Park Avenue with bathrooms

Pat Satterstrom, Tiffany Charbonier and Thom Blaylock discuss the origins of NYU Wagner's Public Service Impact Lab. 

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