Payphones Past

Creeper Phone Booth Scene From “The Boston Strangler” (1968)

6 years ago

I felt a little duped by this film. I stuck with this movie because I figured a serial killer flick…

Dear MTA: Please Put Phones on the RFK/Triborough

6 years ago

I decided that getting emergency phones on the RFK/Triborough might be a cause worth pursuing after all. So i contacted…

Was the “Immigrant Lady Liberty” #ArtOnLink Screen Really Controversial?

6 years ago

Much of the enmity directed at a specific #ArtOnLink illusrtation was patently Islamophobic. But I found some questions provocative.

Was This LinkNYC Machine Trying To Tell Me Something?

6 years ago

Clicking noises dribbling from a LinkNYC kiosks had me asking if someone besides me had found a way to connect…

Payphone Wisdom: Big Fat Balls Destroy Bathroom Stalls

6 years ago

Payphone wisdom seldom goes viral. The confusing substance of this declamation goes a long way to demonstrating why. 

Payphone Yellow Pages, 2000

6 years ago

Bell Atlantic Yellow Page column for what was left of NYC's payphone business in 2000. One of these payphones service…

No Dial Tone, Just Stickers, Stickers, and More Stickers

6 years ago

Graffiti artist CEEK 333 brought his "I LOVE GREY GOOSE" stylings to this payphone enclosure at Delancey and Forsyth Streets…

No Dial Tone at Grand Central Terminal

6 years ago

PTS's New York City payphones have been known to not work for months on end before coming back alive. This…

Someone Kissed This LinkNYC Tablet Screen

6 years ago

It's enough to make you laugh, but then it's enough to make you go hmmmm.

Still No Hotline Support Phone on the RFK/Triborough

6 years ago

For years a sign on the RFK/Triborough Bridge has promised that a 24-Hour crisis prevention telephone awaits those who might…