The 3 'Genres' of Brooklyn Bar Bathroom, Explained

Ian MacAllen has a Tumblr page called Toilets of New York, but it might be more accurate to call it Bar Bathrooms of Brooklyn. Every image he's uploaded, since December, has come from an alcohol establishment, and many-if-not-most have been located in Williamsburg or Bushwick. "It's not like I'm going into the Barnes and Noble and saying, Hey, where's the bathroom," he says.

The 31-year-old MacAllen, who lives in East Williamsburg and works as a graphic designer, conceived the project during one of nature's calls last summer. He realized that, in many of the bathrooms in his favorite haunts, someone had clearly tried to "create an experience." Since then, MacAllen says he's noticed three main "genres" of bathrooms: the neutral white- or black-tile bathroom, the heavily graffitied bathroom, and the "well-curated bathroom."