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A Rockefeller Center Payphone User Revisited

A strange and what seemed at first to be an eerie coincidence occurred on Twitter the other night.

9 years ago

This “Free Wi-Fi Payphone” is a Portal to Nowhere.

Phantom vestiges of a 2012 program to equip NYC's payphones with free WiFi still linger on city streets.

9 years ago

Christmas Music Heard Through a Steinway Street Payphone

I fed $3.75 into a Steinway Street payphone to record the Christmas music played over loudspeakers on that venue. Some…

9 years ago

Those new outdoor phone booths are so doggone handy …

The advertisement below appeared in the August 6, 1957, edition the Panama City News-Herald. It appeared in numerous publications nationwide.…

9 years ago

Putting the “UG” in UGLY. LinkNYC Begins its Raid of Woodside, Queens.

Uglyass LinkNYC Monoliths Are Uglifying the Already Non-Beautiful Stretch of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.

9 years ago

Vandals To All Who Care: “We Need More Pay Phones”

There is nothing funny about a missing person poster. But I had to laugh when I saw that someone used…

9 years ago

NBC’s I-Team on LinkNYC: Broken Promises

NBC New York's I-Team claims Brooklyn is a "digital desert." Who knew? Journalism at its finest... not.

9 years ago

Is LinkNYC Coming to Times Square?

The sudden absence of payphones at Times Square suggests that Links are coming. Does the advertising-engulfed Times Square need this?…

9 years ago

CityBridge’s LinkNYC Program Takes a Blow

As a Telebeam lawsuit comes back to haunt CityBridge it may behoove regulators to consider the wisdom of granting a…

9 years ago

LinkNYC Customer Urinating on the Street

I and other Starbucks customers watched yesterday as a LinkNYC customer urinated onto the street. Scenes like this have come…

9 years ago