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What Was TELVAST?

I never heard of TELVAST until its name surfaced on a Queens Boulevard payphone. I found no trace of the…

6 years ago

TIL: I Am a Culture Jammer

I was honored to accept an invitation from Joey Skaggs to guest post on his blog, "Art of the Prank".…

6 years ago

Abandoned Verizon Paypone at Pasiones Sports Bar in Woodside

An abandoned Verizon payphone at a Woodside bar illustrates what a sorry job the telco giant did in cleaning up…

6 years ago

LinkNYC: Replacing Payphones With… Nothing?

It looks like CityBridge now removes payphones and moves on, replacing them not with the Smart City LinkNYC kiosks but…

6 years ago

Grand Central Terminal: Payphones Gone

Most of Grand Central Terminal's payphones were routed last year. Take a tour of how they looked, pick up some…

6 years ago

Freedom Is Infinite Faith In Your Abilities

Sometimes inspirational graffiti makes sense. Not this time. Not to me at least.

6 years ago

It’s a NewTel Payphone in Union City, New Jersey. No, It Didn’t Work.

A quick tour of a NewTel payphone on Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, NJ.

6 years ago

Fort Lee, NJ. I Found a “FATJAY LAYNE” Payphone

This phone, outside JD's Smoke Pit and Boiling Pot in Fort Lee, NJ, was abandoned over 18 years ago by…

6 years ago

Charlie Brown in a Phone Booth

I was reading up on how telephone numbers in movies usually have 555 as the exchange. From this I learned…

7 years ago

West End Avenue Phone Booths: Now There Are Only Three.

This week I had a chance to check in again the the Canadian-style phone booths CityBridge used to replace authentic…

7 years ago