A decayed, dilapidated, hunk of telephonic irrelevance greets straphangers entering or exiting the 63rd Drive-Rego Park M/R subway station off…
A woman in one of the NYPL Schwartzman branch phone booths. May, 2017.
I got over my fear of being ridiculed for asking about such things. I staked out an old rotary dial…
Inspired by new contacts with an interest in the subject, I wrote down some reflections on my involvement with the…
The title says it all. I had LinkNYC machines all over New York blasting this ghastly noise, typically only heard…
I love when my ancient listings of old payphone numbers and locations connect with something in modern times. This restored…
Originally listed at 718-476-8903, this payphone has dial tone at the 90th Street/Elmhurst Avenue 7 train station. I got bumped…
A look back, in pictures and paean, at the last payphone in Grand Central subway station.
The formerly breakneck pace of new LinkNYC installations and activations is today characterized by empty advertising-only payphone enclosures, payphones removed…
Just a couple of pictures of another abandoned Verizon payphone. This one's on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn.