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- NATION, Page 43American NotesNEW YORK CITY Nowhere To Go
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- New York City has been called a cesspool before, but a
- lawsuit filed last week literally accused the city of turning
- into a sewer. The Legal Action Center for the Homeless charged
- that authorities have created a health risk -- and caused untold
- suffering and humiliation to the city's 90,000 homeless -- by
- failing to provide enough clean and safe public toilets. The
- center found that most of the park and subway rest rooms it
- surveyed were either closed or in disrepair.
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- The center says it would settle the suit if the city opened
- more washrooms, but officials claim they don't have the money.
- Says center attorney Patrick Horvath: "It is simply shameful for
- a city to be so inept in providing the simplest and most
- important of public conveniences to those who walk the streets."
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