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Arted-up Payphone at the Taco Dumbo Midtown

There is, as anyone would expect, an arted-up defunct payphone in a midtown Taco shop, positioned such that all visitors…

6 years ago

PRAY at Beyond the Streets

It may not have been authentic PRAY, but I appreciated seeing one of my all-time New York City heroes get…

6 years ago

Dear MTA: Please Put Phones on the RFK/Triborough

I decided that getting emergency phones on the RFK/Triborough might be a cause worth pursuing after all. So i contacted…

6 years ago

Payphone Wisdom: Big Fat Balls Destroy Bathroom Stalls

Payphone wisdom seldom goes viral. The confusing substance of this declamation goes a long way to demonstrating why. 

6 years ago

Payphone Yellow Pages, 2000

Bell Atlantic Yellow Page column for what was left of NYC's payphone business in 2000. One of these payphones service…

6 years ago

No Dial Tone, Just Stickers, Stickers, and More Stickers

Graffiti artist CEEK 333 brought his "I LOVE GREY GOOSE" stylings to this payphone enclosure at Delancey and Forsyth Streets…

6 years ago

Still No Hotline Support Phone on the RFK/Triborough

For years a sign on the RFK/Triborough Bridge has promised that a 24-Hour crisis prevention telephone awaits those who might…

6 years ago

The iSpectrum Internet Payphone Did, in Fact, Exist.

Complete with a full QWERTY keyboard and trackball the iSpectrum "payphone of the future" did, in fact, inhabit at least…

6 years ago

718-505-9550: Jackson Heights Roosevelt Avenue Station Payphone/TTY

I have a fondness for this payphone on account of my picture from 2013, showing a young woman whose profile…

6 years ago

Happy Payphone, Sad Payphone

Someone spray-painted happy and sad faces on two adjacent payphones. This is your chance to see them. Hero, I am.

6 years ago