Payphones Past

NYC: Reinvent Payphones

13 years ago

New York City has turned to Joe Q. Public for ideas on the payphone of the future, focusing (among other…

NYC Releases Its PPT (Public Pay Telephone) Dataset

13 years ago

As someone whose longtime interest in payphones has been met with a mix of ambivalence and ridicule I find it…

NYC PPT (Public Pay Telephone) Data To Be Released?

13 years ago

Earlier this year I submitted a request to the NYC Open Data web site suggesting that the city release its…

Save Public Telephones!

13 years ago

Some who regarded them as irrelevant now may recognize that wholesale routing out of public telephones has created dangers to…

This Payphone Survived the Hurricane. The Tree Did Not.

13 years ago

I hope that everyone who needed one was able to find a working payphone after hurricane Sandy knocked out cell…

Who Still Uses Payphones?

13 years ago

Young woman using a payphone as her infant child looks on. October, 2012. Believe it or not, folks, people still…

Abandoned Payphone. Greenpoint Avenue, Queens.

13 years ago

The old urban legend about hypodermic needles being stuck inside coin return slots got a new lease on life when…

Jaisalmer, India. Near the Thar Desert at Jaisalmer Fort.

13 years ago

Payphone at Jaisalmer Fort, near the Pakistan border, in India.

Payphones Should Be Free Phones

13 years ago

All phones are payphones. Whether or not you pay for the call a charge is levied somewhere by somebody to…

LOUD

13 years ago

LOUD. Press to Change Volume