A Toilet That Uses 14 Gallons? Oh Gosh! - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

As a one time user of the automatic toilet outside of City Hall Park, near where "Newspaper Row" was, the east side near Horace Greeley sitting on his sofa and the monument to Joseph Pulitzer, on top of the human remains of the city's "first Almshouse" I wonder is it heated? One of the ways to control airborne bacteria is with "black light" (UV) which I heard, once requested to inoculate South Koreans for TB, is installed in shopping malls circulation systems there to kill it. Ozone in water takes awhile I saw one manufacturer in Vermont, insists on using it to purify his water once bottled (1/2 hour). The one next to City Hall was removed to make way for the restoration of the current City Hall Park, complete with outlines of former building locations outlined in darker paving stone from Binghamton, NY. I worked on the burials in 1999 when it being transformed, after 9/11, locked up, and just recently reopened. "Go west young man and grow up with the country" he said. A Toilet That Uses 14 Gallons? Oh Gosh! - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog