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Romeo & Juliet at Central Park, With a Chorus of Payphones Looking On

The bronze statue, by Milton Hebal, still stands outside the Delacorte Theater. The payphones didn't make it.

3 years ago

Old Dead Phone at the Penn Station 1/2/3.

This beauty lurks at 7th Avenue at 33rd street, downstairs in the Penn Station 1/2/3 station, outside the Sbarro. No…

3 years ago

Payphones at Carnegie Hall

I finally got at the payphones in Carnegie Hall for the first time since pandemic. Carnegie has a vax card…

3 years ago

The SEX Payphones of 42nd Street are Finally Gone

CityBridge, the same consortium responsible for LinkNYC and Link5G, let this filthy payphone totem, reeking of piss/shit/I don't want to…

3 years ago

The New Link5G LinkNYC Skyscrapers Close-Up [Video]

The Intersection/Google/CityBridge Smart City monopoly continues to fail up. The future of public communications, the next evolution of the payphone,…

3 years ago

Phone Booths of the New Jersey Turnpike. October, 2005.

Thanks solely to the Simon & Garfunkel song "America" I long maintained a romanticized notion of the New Jersey Turnpike,…

3 years ago

77 Water Payphone Carousel Revisited (VIDEO)

I would swear I found PRAY on one of these payphones some years ago. Finding any photos I captured of…

3 years ago

Faith on Fear: An eBay Payphone Connection to a Church in Wisconsin

I found myself watching a church sermon today, live streamed on Facebook from the Faith Church on Fear Street in…

4 years ago

The Old Payphone Graveyard in Astoria. January, 2003.

In this lot today you also might find air machines, countertop video games, internet-connected jukeboxes, tchotchke dispensers, claw machines, change-makers,…

4 years ago

Almost Heaven… West Virginia is Teeming With Working Payphones

A series of photos, shot this month on hand-rolled Arista 400 B&W film, by Daniel Hopsicker in Charleston, West Virginia.…

4 years ago