Payphones Past

Signs of Life in the LinkNYC Rollout?

5 years ago

It's hard to know what to expect of the LinkNYC rollout at this point. We were promised transparency on a…

What We’re Really Paying For: Red Emergency Call Boxes

5 years ago

Watch this video for a tour of an archaic piece of street furniture for which New Yorkers pay millions, while…

A Video Tour of Long Island City’s Last Payphones

5 years ago

I've been on a video-making kick lately. This one has me traipsing familiar territory, along 21st Street in Long Island…

No Dial Tone Here But the Old New York Telephone Era Signage is Cool

5 years ago

These non-working payphones will probably never work again but the SpareRoom advertising panel is new, proving yet again that payphone…

Why Is This Payphone Yelling At Me?

5 years ago

Whilst passing this phone today it sounded, from several feet away, like noise was coming out of it, making me…

Queensbridge Payphones, One Last Time

5 years ago

Because I didn't think the previous video was all that great, and because I guess I'm on a video kick…

Another Payphone Up Close

5 years ago

While making this little video about one of the last independently-owned payphones in town I had the unusual experience of…

Caught In the Act. A Most Magical Moment.

5 years ago

This was awesome. Magical, even. I was making a video about this phone when a real world payphone user interrupted…

Queensbridge Payphones Revisited

5 years ago

I discovered these payphones on March 25, 2017, the day before my appearance on "CBS Sunday Morning", when an anxiety-fueled…

Borden Avenue Has Lost Its Dialtone

5 years ago

A short video of my discovery that a trusted, fully functional payphone had been chopped, with some pictures of how…