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Dude Tried to Make a Payphone Call

This incident proves, yet again, that people still need payphones, and would use them if they worked. New York is…

5 years ago

Payphones of Chinatown: I Got Them Just In Time.

Only three weeks after I captured these videos of Chinatown's last payphones it appears all or most of them are…

5 years ago

Last Payphones of Flushing, Queens

Without a single LinkNYC kiosk to replace the dozens of removed payphones Flushing residents can only hope for the best…

5 years ago

Video: Long Dead Payphones by the Verrazano-Narrows in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

This looks like a cool spot for a filming location should a director need or benefit from an authentic 1990s-era…

5 years ago

Video: The Payphone at the End of the R. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

This one's been moldering away in Bay Ridge for many years, and not inconspicuously. It's practically in the middle of…

5 years ago

Payphones of The Bronx and Harlem. January 2, 2021.

I took the 4 to Fordham to check in on some straggler PTS payphones, as well as a couple of…

5 years ago

Payphones of 125th Street, New Years Day

In which I spotted something I have never seen in the wild before: A payphone TTY keyboard rolled out and,…

5 years ago

In Search of the Elusive PTS Phone Booths at 347 Madison Avenue

Four pristine phone booths and a wall-mounted TTY, with now-non-working Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS) payphones, inhabit the lobby of 347…

5 years ago

You All Have Covid

Found on a Harlem payphone today.

5 years ago

Some Midtown East Payphones Documented, and One For My Personal Scrapbook

This tour, from yesterday, includes yet more discussion about PRAY and shots of some surviving PRAYphones. I hope I don't…

5 years ago