Payphones Past

Payphone At The End Of The R, Starring 1-800-MAX-SAVE

7 years ago

An abandoned Verizon payphone in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, leads to a somewhat interesting tale of the alleged theft of a…

LinkNYC: Speedtest, The Path To Porn Revisited, And More

7 years ago

The Path To Porn via LinkNYC kiosk tablets was not fully closed, I discovered. I followed a hunch and the…

$1 For Two Minutes? That’s Survival Mode.

7 years ago

It looks like I might have made my last phone call from the last payphone at Rockefeller Center after PTS…

He’s Still Listening … Tim Perdue

7 years ago

Echoes of "This Phone is Tapped" inform this pair of then-and-now photos from Flickr photographer Tim Perdue.

Laidric Stevenson – Night Call

7 years ago

Payphones around Texas. What's left of them, that is. Photos by Laidric Stevenson. Find lots more Texas payphone photos at…

Living on LinkNYC

7 years ago

My sudden interest in using LinkNYC kiosks led me to discover that the mapping app no longer works as advertised.

Payphoneless Enclosure Lurks Near Headless Mannequins

7 years ago

I saw this abandoned payphone enclosure on 41st and Baxter Avenues in Elmhurst and thought it looked like the empty…

Payphone Gone

7 years ago

Payphones are not dead yet. Here is a shot of the innards of a payphone enclosure minus the payphone, graffiti…

Payphone key to 10-year mystery | Central Telegraph

7 years ago

How many phone booths and payphones are central to stories of crime and intrigue? Many, of course, among them the…

Denver Art Museum’s “Psychedelic Experience” Phone Booths, 2009

8 years ago

A video playlist of 25 short recordings from an interactive piece involving phone booths at the Denver Art Museum's "Psychedelic…