Wrong Restroom? Not At All. She Works There.

By Douglas Martin
Published: December 11, 1991

LAURA BELLE, the supper club at 120 West 43d Street, is one of those ultra-trendy places that define New York City for the fast and famous, not to mention the fatuous. Entering, you thread through dark corridors, passing 18th-century Georgian antiques. Finally, you arrive at a vast sunken dance floor, eerily somber and designed to throb with the music. ...

... Sooner or later most men who patronize Laura Belle find themselves in their own special place. There are four urinals, three private stalls and enough marble for a nice mausoleum. For two weeks there has also been a female attendant in the men's room, Sasha Kazachkova, a 20-year-old Russian emigre who used to oversee men's toilet needs in one of Moscow's tonier hotels. ...

Photo: Sasha Kazachkova, a Russian emigre who used to oversee men's toilet needs in one of Moscow's tonier hotels, is the attendant in the men's room at Laura Belle, a supper club at 120 West 43d Street. (Angel Franco/The New York Times)

A version of this article appeared in print on December 11, 1991, on page B3 of the New York edition.

Restroom, For Public, Reopens

By Bruce Weber
Published: May 30, 1992

Walking west on 42d Street toward Avenue of the Americas, Norma Schnuderl turned left at midblock into Bryant Park and abruptly pulled up short. As her companion went blithely into the city's newest public restroom, Ms. Schnuderl, a pleasant-faced woman with glasses, stood outside, puffing on a cigarette, muttering aspersions.

"I wouldn't go in there," she said. "I hate public johns." ...

A version of this article appeared in print on May 30, 1992, on page 122 of the New York edition.

The online version may omit a photo by Jack Manning. The print version hasn't a photo, but does quote "Jose," in the clipping's text.