Bill Harris’ “New York”, a coffee table book published in 1979, captures some classic images of pre-Giuliani New York City. These images of Chinatown’s pagoda-topped phone booths are among them.
Outside the Big Wong Restaurant on Mott Street once stood a pair of pagoda-topped payphones in New York’s Chinatown. Those payphones are gone now. This photo shows someone actually using the disappeared public telephone.
At the corner of Bayard and Elizabeth, where The Payphone Project spotted the last surviving pagoda-topped payphones of New York’s Chinatown. The payphones seen in this picture no longer exist.
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