Payphones Past

Payphones of Northern Boulevard and Woodside. January, 2021.

5 years ago

Closest thing to dial tone in this series is the infamous stuck key payphone at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue/Broadway subway…

Ye Olde Payphone at Queensboro Plaza

5 years ago

This phone always worked. I never knew it to be lacking dial tone. I think this and another PTS phone…

Dude Tried to Make a Payphone Call

5 years ago

This incident proves, yet again, that people still need payphones, and would use them if they worked. New York is…

Payphones of Chinatown: I Got Them Just In Time.

5 years ago

Only three weeks after I captured these videos of Chinatown's last payphones it appears all or most of them are…

Death, Life, Mortality, and Payphones. A Walking Tour of Old Calvary Cemetery in Queens.

5 years ago

I spent a couple of hours at Old Calvary Cemetery in Queens with Jessi Highet and Mike Varley, giving them…

Last Payphones of Flushing, Queens

5 years ago

Without a single LinkNYC kiosk to replace the dozens of removed payphones Flushing residents can only hope for the best…

Video: Long Dead Payphones by the Verrazano-Narrows in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

5 years ago

This looks like a cool spot for a filming location should a director need or benefit from an authentic 1990s-era…

Video: The Payphone at the End of the R. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

5 years ago

This one's been moldering away in Bay Ridge for many years, and not inconspicuously. It's practically in the middle of…

Payphones of The Bronx and Harlem. January 2, 2021.

5 years ago

I took the 4 to Fordham to check in on some straggler PTS payphones, as well as a couple of…