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Nowhere to go on the North End part of the Freedom Trail
By adamg on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 6:17pm
Oh, sure, there's plenty to see, but as Matt Conti explains, there's no place to go.
Ed. note: There's always the pay toilet by the bocce courts, but, granted, that's on the other side of Copp's Hill Burying Ground from the Freedom Trail.
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Hoity Toity Toilet-y
Boston is absurd in pretending that humans don't have natural functions. It's like the MASH jokes about Charles Winchester having small pores and not sweating.
For William Blaxton's sake, this is a tourism burg. Put damned toilets around for kids and adults. Require stores and restaurants on thoroughfares to make their johns available for the people who keep our economy perking. Water and paper are damned cheap and a cost of business.
The last time I did the
The last time I did the freedom trail with out-of-town guests, we ended up asking the firemen if we could use their bathroom. Nice guys, no soap. =/
I would think public
I would think public restrooms would make most sense in the Prado - the brick mall that serves as the gateway to the Old North Church. You know, Number One if by land, Number Two if by sea...
Prado used to have public restrooms
but they were long ago converted into NEMPAC's music studios.
Firehouse on Hanover Street
I've been informed its facilities are open to the public.
Firehouse
The Fire Department is pretty good about letting people that ask to use their bathroom. But there is no sign or any way to know that is even a possibility. And their bathroom can't handle the 800-900 per day that used the Hull St. restrooms.
Menino called?
During Mad Men? Talk about a 24/7 job. :)
And yet across town, the city
And yet across town, the city is looking for ways to turn two public restrooms into private restaurants.
North Station, too.
Although it's not actually in the North End, North Station has public bathrooms and tourists ought to know it exists. (I hear they have some sort of sporting facility over the train station.) But it's still a bit off the trail, so it's hardly ideal.
Follow the painted red line a bit farther
Walk another 20 minutes (like I did with out-of-towners Saturday) and use the USS Constitution Museum. Handy if you're headed there, anyway.