Payphones Past

LinkNYC: Iron Rain?

5 years ago

LinkNYC's AP headlines often provide little information but plenty of bewilderment to its public. I saw this and was like,…

Queensbridge Payphones: 718-784-8935, 718-729-9638

5 years ago

These back-to-back payphones at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City have some special meaning to me, on account of…

Benner-Nawman’s BN800 Vanguard Egg-Shaped Enclosure, by Daniel Hopsicker

5 years ago

I spotted this once-popular model of payphone enclosure in Nebraska, Brooklyn, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, and even in the…

LinkNYC: How Did We Get Here?

5 years ago

A little bit of history on how and why New York City's phone booths of the past evolved into LinkNYC.

Rough Couple of Weeks for CityBridge/LinkNYC

5 years ago

From its payphones to its financial failings, CityBridge and its LinkNYC program had a rough couple of weeks.

Intersection to Build an Open Data Dashboard for LinkNYC

5 years ago

I hope whoever gets this internship uses better data than CityBridge currently publishes at NYC.gov. If the current public dataset…

Guerrilla Marketing for Payphone Radio, and Other Connections

5 years ago

Making connections, one payphone at a time.

718-624-9288, Jay Street-MetroTech Subway Station in Brooklyn. It Works.

5 years ago

I unexpectedly found a working payphone at a Brooklyn subway station today.

Abandoned Payphone Stand in Brownsville, Brooklyn

5 years ago

What could a BMW dealership on Long Island possibly have to do with the ghost of a payphone in Brownsville,…

Strange Doings at 1-800-WEATHER

5 years ago

Was 1-800-WEATHER seized by the Internal Revenue Service? Or by a pot shop in Seattle? Or both?