Payphones Past

Payphone Ramblings, and Some Videos

3 years ago

It's become a chore, I'm sorry to say, to post content to this website. I don't like Wordpress anymore but…

Checking in on a Chinatown Rarity. Probably the Last Surviving Pagoda-Topped Phone Booth in NYC.

3 years ago

Short video of a pristine old New England Telephone booth hiding away in Chinatown.

Payphones of RUTH’FD, New Jersey. October, 2021.

3 years ago

In which I spotted a rare ETS payphone in the wilds of New Jersey. I am making my documentary payphone…

[VIDEO] Dial Tone in The Bronx, and Other Co-Op City Payphone Finds

3 years ago

I am told I missed a few, but Co-Op City turned up a number of intact and not-so-intact payphone remains.…

[VIDEO] My Payphone-Finding Investigative Skills Thrive Unabated

3 years ago

I don't know why the clamshell has slunk so low to the ground, or if it was always like that…

[VIDEO] Two Payphone Tours on Pride Sunday: West End Ave. & Times Square/Port Authority

3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0oJhalqnY Looks like someone at the MTA got their knickers in a twist over the everlasting payphone carcasses that litter…

[VIDEO] Checking in From Rockefeller Center’s Last Working Payphone

3 years ago

This phone is all that is left of Rockefeller Center's once-formidable "COMMUNICATIONS" portal. This is from last week, after the…

How Many “Last Payphones of New York City” Remain? Here’s One.

3 years ago

Last month's announcement that the "last payphone" of New York City had been hauled off to slaughter was very specific…

A New York Times Ramble

3 years ago

I left Jayson Blaire's effluvia out of this litany.