New York’s Public Toilets Are Becoming ‘Virtually Unusable,’ Park Trash Cans Are ‘Overflowing,’ as City Slashes Cleaning Budget To Pay for Migrants

City activists fear New York is returning to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s when the city was profoundly filthy.

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A public restroom at Joseph Austin Playground, Jamaica, Queens. Tdorante10 via Wikimedia Commons CC4.0

Activists and politicians at New York City are issuing dire warnings about the city’s treasured parks and not-so-treasured public restrooms as the city makes deep budget cuts to pay for the uncontrolled influx of migrants.  

Public restrooms are increasingly appearing as they did during New York’s nadir in the 1970s and 1980s, activists warn, as they are now being cleaned weekly instead of daily.

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