Ray’s Pizza on 6th Ave. in SoHo
My wife and I popped into Ray’s Pizza at 319 6th Avenue in New York today. We were in that period between hotel checkout and the flight home, when you are functionally homeless for several hours. Although the restroom door had a makeshift “Out Of Order” sign, folks kept coming in and out of it. Since one of my main drives for going there was to be able to use the restroom (second only to eating), I decided to see what was behind the door.
Huh.
Surpisingly, the toilet seats themselves were clean. The most pressing issue is that you have to be a contortionist to use the clean seat without hitting anything surrounding it with part of your body. I chose the one on the left; I think it was the lack of large holes in the door that sold me on it:
Yeah, that is a cigar laying on the left side of the tank lid. Classy, huh? Just so I don’t leave folks hanging in suspense, here is the closeup of the door on the right:
We were actually in Greenwich Village when this picture was taken. The Ray’s Pizza on 6th is a few blocks north of Houston which puts us in Greenwich Village, not SoHo. For those from NY, I know you’d appreciate this distinction. The few bathrooms I visited in SoHo were nicer.
Because of the perspective, it’s hard to tell, but in order to sit on the toilet seat (or perch precariously above it) one must skoot ones legs under the sink or lean far in the opposite direction, or both. The sinks here were actully placed over the side of the commode. Once could even conceivably wash ones hands will still doing their business. How’s that for space saving and efficiency! :oS
Comment by The Wife — August 24, 2004 @ 5:59 pm