Payphones Past

LinkNWK Already Looks a Lot Like LinkNYC

7 years ago

I found plenty of working payphones in Newark. The new LinkNWK Smart City kiosks were not so promising.

LinkNYC’s Manufacturing Facility Demolished

7 years ago

LinkNYC's manufacturing plant at 11-37 31st Avenue has been demolished.

What The Heck Was “LinkNYC Alert”?

7 years ago

A rah-rah piece about LinkNYC in Venturebeat briefly and unintentionally included a strange image of something called "LinkNYC Alert". What…

LinkNYC: Guess The Current Temperature

7 years ago

Weather conditions reported by LinkNYC vary so much from one machine to the next that guessing which report is accurate…

LinkNYC Kiosk Installations Have Come to a Halt, and Other Observations

7 years ago

Last week I posted a map of LinkNYC kiosks with the reported functional status of each machine's WiFi, tablet, and…

LinkNYC: On This Day, and Missing the Bus Revisited

7 years ago

Was it on this day, that day, or another day? Who's to say? Also, I put LinkNYC's bus arrival time…

Can You Pay a Parking Ticket Using LinkNYC?

7 years ago

You are supposed to be able to but you cannot. But then, why would anybody want to pay for anything…

LinkNYC Misses the Bus

7 years ago

The MTA bus arrival time feature has returned to the LinkNYC kiosks, and it sucks the same as it did…

Updated: LinkNYC Real Time Kiosk Status Data Released

7 years ago

Everything looks awesome on the LinkNYC network according to a dataset released by the city last week that purportedly shows…

West End Avenue Phone Booths: Now There Are Only Three.

7 years ago

This week I had a chance to check in again the the Canadian-style phone booths CityBridge used to replace authentic…