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Old Wood Phone Booth at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Old wood phone booths are rare enough in New York. This one stands out for having an actual working payphone…

5 years ago

Advance, North Carolina: A Brief Saga of an Aging Payphone

Mark Mathosian writes about the slow demise of the last payphone in Advance, North Carolina.

5 years ago

Abandoned Verizon Payphone on Madison Street: 212-962-8239

When I can I like to see if the numbers for these old, rotting phones still appear on this website.…

5 years ago

The Trashing of Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal’s Payphones

Could the Ferry Terminal peeps have not come up with a more elegant way of sealing off the payphones? Like,…

5 years ago

Lower Manhattan Payphones Revisited

A tour of Lower Manhattan's payphone population found me making a call from a payphone right across the street from…

5 years ago

Elmhurst, Queens: Abandoned NYTEL Payphone Since At Least 15 Years

Just another abandoned NYTEL payphone, this one in Elmhurst, Queens, since at least 2009.

5 years ago

Salvador Dalí Had a Phone Booth Next to His Swimming Pool

Whether the booth ever contained any kind of telephone is not known to me.

5 years ago

(989) 856-6333 Rings a Rotary Dial Payphone In Michigan

This Michigan payphone is accessible to all, accepts incoming calls, and outgoing calls cost 10¢. Give it a call if…

5 years ago

Payphones at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

This double enclosure at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, catty-corner from the Port Authority Bus Terminal, is the most consistently…

5 years ago

“Must Document!”

A payphone I used only occasionally vanished this week, bringing Astoria's payphone population down to 11. Just a couple of…

5 years ago