If You Sprinkle...

The ladies room is my home away from home. I am a connoisseur. Not so much because I am passionate about tile and rolled paper, but because nature calls on me more often than most. I don't ask much when it comes to public restrooms. Clean toilets, plenty of TP, and hand towels or hot air driers that actually dry. It's really not so much to ask, especially from one of the highest end shopping malls on the continent, namely Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City.


Simon Malls, the owner/manager of Roosevelt Field, should be ashamed of the condition of its ladies rooms. All of them.

They are filthy, sodden and ill-equipped. 

Sad-but-true, the disgusting shape of Roosevelt Field Mall restrooms can be blamed equally on ill-mannered patrons and poor management.The shoppers at Roosevelt Field apparently have not been properly potty trained. The paper goes in the toilet. The toilet gets flushed after you use it. The seat gets dried, if needed. The counter gets wiped down.


Oops! That last one's a toughie, since ladies rooms no longer have paper towels.Of course, I do love those Dyson hand driers. But I really could have used some paper towels today to dry off my purse after it got soaked on the sink countertop.

What is truly needed, however, is a restroom attendant. That's where Simon can make good on the Roosevelt Field brand experience.They can't be held accountable for the slovenly, unsanitary behavior of their customers, but they can certainly acknowledge and address it by staffing the operation with someone to clean up after them.

Potty training  may not be Simon's business, but keeping customers happy is.

Red Light, Green Light

Frank Saladino is my new hero. Frank successfully challenged a red light camera ticket, which he got for making a legal right-on-red in New Hyde Park. I myself received just such a ticket for the same type of turn on Stewart Blvd. over the summer, and it cost me $65!!

No less than Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano took up Frank's case with the Dept'mt of Public Works, and as a result, the dept. is now installing a sign at the offending intersection alerting drivers that a full stop is required before a right-on-red. Presumably, similiar signs will be required at other locations if drivers are to be held accountable.

Too bad Frank didn't come along before I got tagged. I just didn't have the time or energy to be anybody's hero that day, not even my own.