now i'm not so sure.

50,000 is a lot of people. but then again dancing, toilet cleaners is a must see. nothing like a strange toilet experience.


New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
It's potty time for 50,000 on B'way
BY BRENDAN BROSHDAILY NEWS WRITER
Sunday, November 26th, 2006

One of the biggest new tourist attractions in Times Square isn't a Broadway show or a theme restaurant.

It's a toilet.

More than 50,000 people have visited a 20-stall potty palace that toilet paper giant Charmin opened at 1540 Broadway last Monday - and it's not just for the novelty.

The rest rooms, which will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. through the end of December, are a much-needed amenity in a city famously lacking in public rest rooms, said people waiting to use the loos.

"If this wasn't here, I would have gone in the street," said Jason Dunne, 32, of Ireland.
About 50 people stood between Dunne and the bathrooms yesterday - but many more people were behind him in line.

"I just gotta go," said Michael Brown, 19, of Baltimore.

The Charmin toilets are disappearing by 2007, but New Yorkers shouldn't have to wait too much longer for public rest rooms.

Self-cleaning, 25-cent kiosks are scheduled to be on the streets in the spring, thanks to a deal the city signed in September 2005 after years of delays, screwups and redesigns.

"It took Charmin three weeks to build this space, and it's taken the city 15 years to create public rest rooms," said Tim Collins, a manager at the site.

The city's public johns likely won't offer as surreal an experience as Charmin does.

Visitors must take an escalator to the second floor of the building, where the entire space is decorated in blue and white. Toilets No. 1 and No. 2 are designated "Gotta Go Stalls - For Little Squirt Emergencies."

Dancing bathroom attendants clean each gleaming stall after every use.

"It was the strangest toilet experience of my life," said Alex Lofthouse, who was visiting from England. "It makes you smile."