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Council Member Brewer highlights bathroom accessibility issues and discrimination
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer emphasizes the importance of public bathrooms due to discrimination in accessing private facilities. She highlights the need for improved bathroom access and signage in public buildings.
- Brewer points out racial discrimination in accessing hotel bathrooms
- She stresses the importance of public bathrooms to address this inequality
- Brewer suggests improving signage for existing public bathrooms in municipal buildings
Gale A. Brewer
1:08:55
One of the problems I'll let you go is, as you know, if you're white, you can walk into any hotel.
1:09:01
I know where every bathroom is and every hotel in the borough Manhattan.
1:09:05
And you can walk in and use the bathroom.
1:09:07
If you're black or brown and particularly young, you feel that somebody's going to stop you.
1:09:12
That's reality.
1:09:13
I've seen it with my own eyes.
1:09:15
So the public bathrooms are more important than ever because it is the bathroom hotel discrimination is real.
1:09:23
So I I'm just saying, fix the parks, put it a priority, and then maybe pops or something else.
1:09:29
Obviously, public buildings could work.
1:09:31
The municipal building, I that is somewhat open.
1:09:34
If you know to go there, you go to Second Floor and know how to do it right upstairs, but it's, you know, it's not public.
1:09:40
There's no sign that says come that would be an example.
1:09:43
You could put that on assigned because you don't have to go through the scanners to do it.
1:09:48
Thank you very much.
1:09:49
I can give you every public bathroom that could go in every public building.
1:09:53
Thank you.
