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[VIDEO] My Payphone-Finding Investigative Skills Thrive Unabated

I don't know why the clamshell has slunk so low to the ground, or if it was always like that…

3 years ago

[VIDEO] Two Payphone Tours on Pride Sunday: West End Ave. & Times Square/Port Authority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0oJhalqnY Looks like someone at the MTA got their knickers in a twist over the everlasting payphone carcasses that litter…

3 years ago

[VIDEO] Checking in From Rockefeller Center’s Last Working Payphone

This phone is all that is left of Rockefeller Center's once-formidable "COMMUNICATIONS" portal. This is from last week, after the…

3 years ago

How Many “Last Payphones of New York City” Remain? Here’s One.

Last month's announcement that the "last payphone" of New York City had been hauled off to slaughter was very specific…

3 years ago

A New York Times Ramble

I left Jayson Blaire's effluvia out of this litany.

3 years ago

[VIDEO] The Romance of Knowing Your Shit in an Avalanche of Fools

I have resumed making Payphone Radio calls from still-working New York City payphones. In this episode I explore the unthinkable…

3 years ago

Payphones at the Metropolitan Museum

These phones at the Met Museum in New York may not be antiquities by Museum standards, or compared to other…

3 years ago

Another NYT Plug, and: The Doomsday Payphone Is For Sale!

A true end of an era in New York City payphones seems to be upon us. The last of the…

3 years ago

Talking It Up On Flushing’s Only Working Public Pay Telephone

Action shot from today. Reliable sources tell me this phone does about $1.50 in business a day. But it shouldn't…

3 years ago