Payphones Past

Rotary Payphone Gone: RAvenswood 9-9744

6 years ago

This rotary dial payphone at Veronica's Bar (née Mike's Place, née St. Mark's) disappeared to a storage closet years ago.

Spying On Myself With LinkNYC

6 years ago

Remembering a couple of strange incidents from when I gathered audio recordings using LinkNYC's curbside microphones. In one case it…

LinkNYC by the Numbers

6 years ago

Kicking off my crunching of numbers provided by CityBridge with regard to its LinkNYC kiosks functional status. I find the…

Hiding in Plain Sight: Phone Booths at 347 Madison Avenue

6 years ago

People make fun of me for my otaku-like fixation but when I found these old beauties last week I felt…

To The Woman Who Offered Me Use Of Her Cellphone Yesterday

6 years ago

A woman saw me putting coins into a payphone and offered me use of her cell phone. I declined, resisting…

Festering Beauties: Phone Booths at the 79th Street Boat Basin

6 years ago

Checked in on an old favorite today: The rotting, festering phone booths at the 79th Street Boat Basin. This is…

Schopenhauer Payphone, Seen Today

6 years ago

TO DESIRE IMMORTALITY IS TO DESIRE THE ETERNAL PERPETUATION OF A GREAT MISTAKE... Wait, what?

Phone Booth and Payphone Scenes From Pretty Poison (1968)

6 years ago

There is a distinct tongue motif in this film. Look for it at 2:50 & 2:57 in this clip.

LinkNYC’s Shoutable App: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

6 years ago

A new "patent-pending" app from Intersection lets you blast customizable messages onto LinkNYC's 55" advertising screens. Reviews are good but…

LinkNYC on Truecaller: 29 Spam Reports and Counting

6 years ago

Putting all the LinkNYC machines under the same CallerID, as opposed to assigning unique numbers to each machine, increases the…