Payphones Past

LOwell-8-7600. Another Brucker Fence. Englewood, NJ

4 years ago

Spotted this new-to-me old Telephone EXchange Name number today: LO-8-6700. In NYC "LO" stood for "LOngacre," and I thought that…

Red Scarf on a Warm Day

4 years ago

A woman wearing a red scarf on a warm day made this seem like something more than just another photo…

Want to use LinkNYC to connect to social services? That’s too bad.

4 years ago

One of the more widely-heralded features of LinkNYC was its touted ability to help "bridge the digital divide". This would…

Payphones of Rutherford, New Jersey (Video)

4 years ago

Rutherford did not look too promising at first but once I found the right section old dead payphones started turning…

KEST GAK and Some LinkNYC Ramblings

4 years ago

This has little to do with KEST GAK, actually, but their vandalizing of a LinkNYC was, I believe, tastefully executed.…

The Payphones of Coney Island

4 years ago

A look back at the payphones of Coney Island's past, with a link to my video documenting the last payphones…

I Thought This Was an Advertising Intervention

4 years ago

Just a little window into what should be the unseen innards of a CityBridge payphone enclosure. It appears this clear…

Working Payphone in Darien, Georgia. Photos by Daniel Hopsicker.

4 years ago

This working payphone stands outside the Darien Telephone Company building in Darien, Georgia. Shot on film last month this enclosure…

Found Another Working Payphone in Manhattan

4 years ago

The Union Square Jobs Center, at 109 East 16th Street, finally reopened, making one more working public pay telephone available,…

What Rhymes With Orange? Payphones, Of Course. (Video)

4 years ago

I've been hunting down what's left of the payphones in the five boroughs of New York, as well as some…