Payphones Past

Best Payphone Audio Capture In Months

7 years ago

Live music sounds different when funneled through the crackly, rugged sound world of a landline payphone.

You Can Call Me From a Payphone, But Not From LinkNYC

7 years ago

If anyone reading this is willing, could you try calling your phone from a LinkNYC machine and tell me, either…

Charlie Brown in a Phone Booth

7 years ago

I was reading up on how telephone numbers in movies usually have 555 as the exchange. From this I learned…

Phone Booths in “The Telephone Book” (1971)

7 years ago

The movie, a comedy about phone sex, obscene phone calls, and pornography, contains a couple of interesting appearances of phone…

Seán Óg’s Has LinkNYC Coming To Its Front Door Soon. Or Does It?

7 years ago

Here's how to tell if a LinkNYC kiosk might be deposited outside your front door at some point in the…

Payphone Scene From “Enemy”

7 years ago

Jake Gyllenhaal discovers that anonymity gets confusing when you are two people in one. It's a payphone scene from the…

Almost Immaculate Old Phone Booth In Astoria

7 years ago

On a tip from a friend I found what is probably the most immaculate old phone booth to be found…

Hourly LinkNYC Kiosk Status Updates Arrive. Joy The World.

7 years ago

Without announcement (public, at least) CityBridge last month commenced publishing a Link Kiosk Status dataset that looked a little more…

All Quiet In LinkNYC Land

7 years ago

According to data released by CityBridge andThe City it appears there has not been a single LinkNYC installation in about…

(607) 216-9781 Replaces (212) 477-3063 As The New (702) 992-9550

7 years ago

Unannounced in any venue I can find is the news that CityBridge replaced Vonage with RingCentral as the VOIP provider…