Red Hook City Councilman Carlos Menchaca has stamped out a plan to build a $2.4 million bathroom in Valentino Park, to the relief of neighbors who complained that it would take up too much of the park's green space and use up way too much public funding. The general sentiment about the proposed bathroom is perhaps best summed up by the first comment on the Brooklyn Paper article: "Damn, the muthaf**kers wanna gentrify the bathrooms too?" [Brooklyn Paper]
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