Payphones Past

Fresh LinkNYC Carnage

2 years ago

I had not seen this kind of damage to a LinkNYC machine in some time, though I've not paid as…

History is Being Rewritten, One AI Prompt at a Time

2 years ago

On three separate occasions I asked ChatGPT what it knew about LinkNYC. It got several facts wrong but presented a…

Ascot Communications: Abandoned Payphone

2 years ago

It's true. I don't here much these days. That doesn't mean my hands are idle. Quite the opposite. I don't…

VIDEO: The Fallen Phone of Flushing Fields, and a Genuine “Last Payphone of New York City”

3 years ago

A search for the fallen payphone of Flushing Fields turned up an unexpected find nearby, making for two abandoned and…

Is *THIS* the Last CityBridge Payphone of New York City?

3 years ago

That payphone is supposed to be gone. The City and DoITT made the bizarre and uninformed announcement in May that…

Found Some Flatbush Payphones (Video)

3 years ago

I used my patent-pending technique of reverse-engineering public information to locate derelict and decrepit payphones in Flatbush on Sunday. (Just…

LinkNYC Lights Up the Pre-Dawn Hour

3 years ago

LinkNYC is now failing upward into a new iteration: Link5G, 32-foot towers that will fill a need no one is…

Another Payphone Stramble, This Time Through Hollis (Video)

3 years ago

https://youtu.be/d6gp1_vYz98 This one sent me to Hollis, where I found a long-dead Verizon phone moldering away in a somewhat odd…

The Old Payphone Across From Ravenswood

3 years ago

This payphone got a lot of use, but the advertising enclosure got a lot of abuse. The duct tape looks…

Flushing Main Street 7 Train Subway. One of the Payphones Here Still Works.

3 years ago

Somehow this payphone survives. It has dial tone. You can call people through this device. It is awesome.