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The Connection Between LinkNYC and Ice Cream Truck Music? If You Know, You Know.

Gothamist reports that an ice cream truck company, Good Humor, discontinued use of “Turkey in the Straw” as its jingle…

5 years ago

Strange Way To Vandalize a LinkNYC Kiosk

What message is someone trying to communicate by perfectly covering a LinkNYC tablet screen with an opaque black material?

5 years ago

One Of LinkNYC’s Most Obnoxious Features Finally Remedied

New Yorkers within earshot of LinkNYC kiosks are no longer serenaded by obnoxiously loud noise made when anyone makes a…

5 years ago

917-341-5504 is Now LinkNYC’s CallerID, and Other Observations

Usage stats are no longer published, but you could make the case that LinkNYC during the pandemic has not only…

5 years ago

Payphone Gone. 31st Street and 38th Avenue in Astoria.

An amazing thing about these payphone enclosures is how successfully they cancel out the noise of the above-ground subway, allowing…

5 years ago

Just What I Was Hoping Not To See: Someone Using a Payphone

A shared public pay telephone must rank among the likeliest conduits for transmitting something like the corona virus. That does…

5 years ago

Inside a Smart City Road Wart

What happens when a wood pylon sits on a city street for a couple of years? It starts to fall…

5 years ago

Just How Bad is Call Quality From LinkNYC Kiosks?

I am glad you asked. Listen in on this nearly unintelligible call I made yesterday from a LinkNYC kiosk somewhere…

5 years ago

LinkNYC’s Smart City Road Wart

Will these rotted wood pylons, intended to indicate where LinkNYC kiosks are supposed to be installed, end up as preëmptive…

5 years ago

Access to MTA Maps Blocked by LinkNYC

CityBridge blocking access to MTA subway and bus maps seems like another Smart City example of something that is harder…

5 years ago