New York is taking public restrooms to the next level. Sorry if you're just sitting down with your latte and banana bread, but our city is "nearing the finish line" in the race to scatter pay per use toilets around the street.

(They try to make it sound all fancy by saying they are working "with a Spanish company," but you know that just means some guy who employs a bunch of illegal Latino labor.)

And, we're not just getting 20 cans, people. 3,300 new bus shelters and 330 new newsstands will providing shelter for NYC's homeless. Literally, it's like exterior decorating for the streets

Cemusa Inc. will pay the city more than $1 billion to install and maintain the street furniture in exchange for the right to sell advertising on the structures.

Don't worry, nobody's going to be living in the bathrooms. First of all, it costs 25-cents for a 15-minute "session" (definitely enough time to hotbox or read AM New York) and after 15 minutes, the door will just pop open. Well, it won't "just" pop open, it will warn you for three minutes that it's about to spring.

So, let's do some math. 9 million people, 15 minutes each, and only 20 pay toilets? Well, if one Paris Hilton can do it…

City unveils pay toilets of tomorrow [Michael Clancy, AM New York]