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The Abandoned Bell Atlantic Phone at 74-21 Queens Boulevard.

The owner at this lot yelled at me to get off his property, even though I never set foot on…

4 years ago

Jersey City Payphones? Not So Much. And Also: CityPost Disappoints.

Nothing much on the payphone front in Jersey City but I did take a crack at JC's CityPost totems, which…

4 years ago

A Payphone Surprise at the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal

Next time you make it to the Whitehall Staten Island Ferry Terminal maybe make a couple of calls from the…

4 years ago

The Red Phone on Delancey at Ludlow

I would have bet cash cash money this sucker was gone but here it is, today, red as ever. [gallery…

4 years ago

988 comes to New York State, but not to New York City’s payphones.

One consequence of making 988 live is that some areas of New York finally had to switch to 10-digit dialing.…

4 years ago

What happens when you try to make a call through a CityBridge payphone?

If you can find a CityBridge payphone with dial tone your attempts to make calls will send you into a…

4 years ago

When a Phone Booth Becomes an Art Gallery

There was something fishy about this abandoned, unusually derelict payphone enclosure, owned by CityBridge. With payphone enclosures like this required…

4 years ago

Last of the Outdoor Times Square Payphones (They Don’t Work)

I thought all the outdoor payphones around Times Square were long gone. I missed these non-working CityBridge masterpieces, at 7th…

4 years ago

This Chatter Phone Enclosure Has Survived The LinkNYC Stampede… For Now.

Someone had their graffiti A-game on placing images of the Fisher-Price Chatter Phone on this derelict CityBridge payphone enclosure. Found…

4 years ago

Payphones of Rutherford, New Jersey (Video)

Rutherford did not look too promising at first but once I found the right section old dead payphones started turning…

4 years ago