Grupo Wayne. Music of the Andes. NYC Subway Buskers Heard Through a Nearby Payphone.
This one starts out a little rough but ends up being among the best quality recordings I've gotten of musicians recorded through NYC's subway payphones. Read More »
Another Classy LinkNYC Customer
With about 300 of an expected 10,000 units installed and activated the rollout of LinkNYC is starting to feel like a slow-moving plague of technological "Smart City" pollution. Read More »
Photographing LinkNYC Users Has Become a Niche Fascination
New Yorkers seem to regard the growing number of LinkNYC encampments as anything from adorable to terrifying. Read More »
Tesla, Thomas, Thurber. “Phone Booth”, by Ariana Kelly.
The Payphone Project finds itself in good company in the index to Ariana Kelly's book "Phone Booth". Read More »
Using a LinkNYC Device for Free Phone Calls
If you are soft spoken or simply unwilling to scream your conversations into public space then LinkNYC's free phone call feature might not be for you. Read More »
LinkNYC Revisited, and Reconsidered
When Links first appeared I was happy to give them half a chance on æsthetic merit. But their numbers greedily increased. They are becoming a caricature of themselves, a ludicrous army of blinking, blistering eyesores. Read More »
Pay Phone Strangulation is Real. Very Real.
Talk about phone booth fighting. This Associated Press story from 1984 makes a common payphone sound like a savage murderer. Read More »
Was There Ever a Payphone On Nicasio Reservoir?
For 50 years the Benner-Nawman company made phone booths and payphone gear they said "may take a mauling but you can keep on calling." But did they really have a payphone in the middle of California's Nicasio Reservoir? Read More »
LinkNYC’s GSOD, and the Infrastructure Underneath.
If this kind of infrastructure interests you then feast your eyes on the underlying foundation of a LinkNYC device. Links are replacing outdoor public pay telephones throughout New York, with the promise from CityBridge (the company that makes them) that they would use elements of the payphones' pre-existing infrastructure. Read More »
Payphone Down. Broadway in Astoria.
This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this payphone are gone. Read More »
LinkNYC: Your New Homeless Office?
Citybridge's new LinkNYC devices have become magnets for loiterers of all stripes. Read More »
Regards from Telenor, the Norwegian Phone Company
Nortel, the largest phone company in Norway, has preserved about 100 of its classic red phone boxes. There used to be over 6000 such "little red houses" in use throughout the country. Read More »
Trump Tower Payphone: Still No Dial Tone
The only payphone at the Trump Tower still does not work. Will it ever? Prrrrobably not. Read More »
“Cabine of the Dead”, by Vincent Templement
"Cabine of the Dead" from French director Vincent Templement is good old-fashioned zombie phone booth fun to start your week. Read More »
NBC Affiliate in Denver Talked to “The Guy Who Runs the Payphone Project”
I did a short interview yesterday with Channel 9, an NBC affiliate in Denver, on the occasion of anniversary of the pay telephone. Allegedly the first pay station appeared in New Haven, CT, on June 1, 1880. Certain evidence, however, suggests earlier pay stations had existed. Read More »
Down and Out. He Should Have a Telephone of His Own.
This haiku-like New York Telephone advertisement from the New York Times, June 13, 1906, shows that stigmas associated with payphone usage date back to the early 20th century. Read More »
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Telefón. Wheeltapper Pub at Grand Central Hotel. https://t.co/H1aGlWOLMf
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Fracas at #TrumpTower but don't worry, the #payphone outside is A-OK, dial tone and all https://t.co/OAXNKXq2YT
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Off the hooks. West 57th Street #payphones. https://t.co/NGERLTDMtZ
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Wow look what I saw @ the mall... #Payphone 📷: @Maribel525 https://t.co/uB9W4D6qz6
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Another classy #LinkNYC customer. Read more at news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/08/a… https://t.co/PcAbyeE9eg
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Just about the last thing I expected to find inside a #cemetery. A working #payphone. Thanks, PTS! @AlanRinNY https://t.co/MwYjQBX5Rt
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I keep seeing these @TonyMatelli sculptures all over #midtown. #linknyc 📷: @textandsign https://t.co/h2pe05j0ly
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#LinkNYC: "semi-permanent command-and-control stations for the city’s burgeoning homeless population" city-journal.org/html/big-broth… @CityJournal
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Sanitary Payphone https://t.co/89zfD8CDAx
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Photographing #LinkNYC Customers Has Become a Niche Fascination news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/08/p… #doyoumisspayphonesyet? https://t.co/698wCrRjZD
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Payphone Project finds itself in good company in the index to Ariana Kelly’s "Phone Booth" news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/08/t… https://t.co/5BqUb7j6di
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A functional payphone. They still exist. #tennessee #smokeymountains #payphone #payphoneography 📷: @jollygreenqueen https://t.co/LSG45AXeLN
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Coney Island Karaoke, Heard Through a Payphone
