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Payphones and Payphone Vestiges at a Rego Park Subway Station Today

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4 months ago

Dead Phones in Jamaica, Queens. February, 2025.

These charmers are a recent discovery for me.

5 months ago

A Bronx and Marble Hill Payphone Stramble [Video]

https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at a couple of years ago…

2 years ago

Unexpected Payphone Find on Atlantic Avenue in Queens

An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview then-and-now history from 2007, when…

2 years ago

Iowa Payphone Defends Itself. AP Story from October, 1984.

Funny story about a payphone call that went horribly, horribly wrong.

2 years ago

Google’s BARD Spouts Bullshit as Fact With Respect to LinkNYC

How many hacks and cyber attacks have targeted the LinkNYC network? According to a report by Motherboard, the LinkNYC network…

2 years ago

Payphones on Maui. December, 2022.

As recently as 2016 Hawaii had the most payphones per capita of any state in the union. Most of Hawaii's…

2 years ago

Abbé Franz Liszt Talking on a 5th Avenue Payphone as Cosima Wagner Looks On. Summer, 2016.

Not impressed by Dall-E's attempts at American-style payphones. Or Franz Liszt. Or Cosima Wagner. Or Warren Beatty.

2 years ago

Ascot Communications: Abandoned Payphone

It's true. I don't here much these days. That doesn't mean my hands are idle. Quite the opposite. I don't…

2 years ago