Payphones Past

Phone Booth Scenes from “The Accused” (1988)

8 years ago

The same phone booth makes two appearances in "The Accused", the 1988 film starring Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster. In the…

Phone Booth Scene from Steven Spielberg’s “Duel” (1971)

8 years ago

Here is a cool phone booth scene from Steven Spielberg's "Duel", starring Dennis Weaver. This was Spielberg's first full-length film,…

The Payphone of “Dead Ringers”

8 years ago

A payphone makes a brief, portentous appearance at the end of David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" (1988).

Drumming Up the Links

8 years ago

Call quality on LinkNYC kiosks is generally very bad, and has actually gotten worse in recent months since CityBridge, the…

Payphones of “Cat People” (1982)

8 years ago

It is not the most memorable scene from the 1982 film Cat People, starring Nastassia Kinsky and Malcolm McDowell, but…

Two Years of LinkNYC

8 years ago

It has been a couple of years since CityBridge commenced its raid of New York City's sidewalks with its so-called…

Payphones Seen in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”

8 years ago

I grabbed screenshots of some of the more interesting appearances of payphones in"Manhattan", the 1979 film directed (in black and…

New Year, Old Payphones

8 years ago

When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for…

Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars – Motherboard

8 years ago

“Payphones are out here making money while some of the newest, hottest, and most ‘successful’ tech companies around are still…

A Phone Booth at Journal Square: P.J. Ryan’s Squared

8 years ago

I spotted an old wood phone booth at PJ Ryan's Squared, a bar at the Journal Square PATH Station in…