A follower of the Payphone Project’s Facebook page wrote to ask a question I don’t think I’ve heard in a…
Strange beeps coming from a Rockefeller Center payphone might have some meaning, or they might not. Anyone with knowledge of…
An anecdote from 1908 claims that presidential candidate William Howard Taft once got trapped inside a phone booth, necessitating that…
Thanks to all who reached out to me after my brief spot on CBS Sunday Morning. The correspondences have been…
The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. Reviews all seem…
These orange pylons and tangled metal bars seem to suggest that LinkNYC will soon rise up in Astoria, Queens, replacing…
From 100 feet away I saw something almost unbelievable: A newly installed clamshell payphone, absent any advertising panels. This is…
An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to a fresh appearance of that defunct…
I spotted something rare. A public pay telephone repairman at work, keeping New York City's payphones safe and sanitary.
It was a rough holiday week around here. The Payphone Project and all my other web sites got knocked offline,…