Bathroom Relief Trickling Out To Park Slope Subway Straphangers

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Frantic pee dances soon will be leaving the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway station.

The station will be one of 12 citywide where restrooms will reopen this spring, MTA officials announced Wednesday.

Reopening those 24 bathrooms — which is expected by early May — likely will be a relief for Park Slope and city straphangers who've had to hold it since the MTA closed all subway restrooms after the coronavirus struck three years ago.

And it appears the first restroom reopenings have made a big splash, said Richard Davey, president of New York City Transit.

“Interestingly enough, the bathrooms have been used over 35,000 times,” Davey said, noting men made up 27,000 of those visits.

“Our customers are clearly using these facilities and amenities, and that’s why we’re opening this new tranche.”

Bathrooms will reopen in these stations:

• Norwood-205th Street - D line
• Woodlawn - 4 line
• 168th Street - A/C lines
• 72nd Street - Q line
• Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall - 4/5/6 lines
• 57th Street - N/Q/R lines
• Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center
• 36th Street - D/N/R lines
• Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue
• Euclid Avenue - A/B/C lines
• Flushing-Main Street - 7 line
• Queensboro Plaza

“Following the second phase, now, over 30 percent of our bathrooms in the subway system will be reopened,” Davey said.