Phone Booth Photos from Daniel Hopsicker

Phone booth photos from Daniel Hopsicker, shot on various film formats with a film SLR. Phone booths here are from Speculator, NY; Long Lake, NY; Martinsburg, WV; Luzurne, NY; Rochester, NY; Cape Cod, MA; and other places.
Payphones of Manhattan Valley. April 17, 2021. (Video)

There are not many payphones left in Manhattan Valley, but highlights from this weekend's tour of that area's telephonic detritus include an actual working phone from which a friend dialed up Payphone Radio. The sound of Payphone Radio coming out of a payphone is a beautiful thing to hear.
A Payphone Prophet Speaks, or Rather Writes… erm… VANDALIZES.

I did not want to touch or even stand too near these phones, which stunk so badly of pee they made my eyes water. The graffiti/prophecy was good fun, though. I did not spot anything like this on other midtown payphones so I wonder if the prophet/vandal chose this location for some particular reason.
The Payphones at St. John Cemetery in Middle Village: Do They Work?

Of the three PTS phones at St. John Cemetery in Middle Village one of them wants to work but the other two are as dead as everything else at out there. I did, however, find a working CityBridge payphone on Woodhaven Boulevard outside Bridie's Bar. I did not expect to find a working CityBridge payphone ever again.
Steinway Street at 34th Avenue: Another Payphone Gone

All I remember about this one was that it had a Bell South logo on it. Bell South was the first big telco to exit payphones, but never had holdings in this part of the country. Bell South exited payphones by 2003. This photo is from 2011. It was not uncommon to see brands of…
A Payphone Gem From Getty Images

A brief window into New York's payphone past in a 1-minute piece about a 30-second payphone at Penn Station. At least one remnant of the 30-second payphone survives today, not working, of course, and not at Penn Station.
An Astoria Payphone Near the Library: Gone

This payphone outside a library reminds me that I believe public libraries should have public telephone rooms where anyone could make a call. It would likely serve a very small niche of the public but it seems, to me at least, like a low-impact, low-maintenance service to offer, assuming there are limits on usage.
A Walgreen’s Payphone, 1999, Then and Now

One of my favorite payphone photos I ever got. A young woman takes a break from her job at Walgreen's to make a call at the payphone outside. Whose phone number is on the scrap of paper she holds in her left hand? Why does she appear to be so antsy?
Grand Central Terminal Payphones Then and Now

Citizens are now required to keep their cell phones charged, healthy, and in their possession at all times, an unfortunate and potentially perilous denouement to the decades-long era of publicly accessible communications devices.
An Astoria Payphone Location, Then and Now

By request, and because I was genuinely preparing to resume this subject, I'm continuing my series of "Payphones Then and Now", starting with this shot of a phone at 36th Avenue and 37th Street in Astoria, Queens.
Payphone Radio Revisited

I finally tackled the tedious but satisfying task of editing and processing over 1600 payphone calls I made from 2011 to 2020. About 63 hours of that stuff now populates the Shoutcast stream at payphoneradio.com.