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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

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

Peter Skiera Reviews Payphone Radio at RecommendedStations.com

Redittors have not been the only people talking about Payphone Radio. Peter Skiera christened his new blog with a lengthy…

3 years ago

VIDEO: When a PBX Glitch Landed Me a Hot Date With a Burlesque Stripper

About a month ago a Reddit user posted the phone number that connects to my Payphone Radio (212-255-2748). The Reddit thread…

3 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

Hack the Planet? Nah. This TTY Slid Right Open.

https://youtu.be/v4pFEeU0dGI I could lie and say I hacked the planet getting this grubby old payphone TTY to open. Really, the…

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

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

LOwell-8-7600. Another Brucker Fence. Englewood, NJ

Spotted this new-to-me old Telephone EXchange Name number today: LO-8-6700. In NYC "LO" stood for "LOngacre," and I thought that…

4 years ago