Public restrooms, periods, and people experiencing homelessness: An assessment of public toilets in high needs areas of Manhattan, New York

Andrew R. Maroko; Kim Hopper; Caitlin Gruer; Maayan Jaffe; Erica Zhen; Marni Sommer

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0252946

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Public restrooms, periods, and people experiencing homelessness: An assessment of public toilets in high needs areas of Manhattan, New York

Andrew R. Maroko ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: andrew.maroko@sph.cuny.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9398-2386

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Kim Hopper,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Caitlin Gruer,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Maayan Jaffe,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-770X

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Erica Zhen,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States of America
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Marni Sommer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Public restrooms, periods, and people experiencing homelessness: An assessment of public toilets in high needs areas of Manhattan, New York

Andrew R. Maroko,
Kim Hopper,
Caitlin Gruer,
Maayan Jaffe,
Erica Zhen,
Marni Sommer

Published: June 23, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252946

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