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LinkNYC Revisited, and Reconsidered

When Links first appeared I was happy to give them half a chance on æsthetic merit. But their numbers greedily…

9 years ago

Pay Phone Strangulation is Real. Very Real.

Talk about phone booth fighting. This Associated Press story from 1984 makes a common payphone sound like a savage murderer.

9 years ago

Was There Ever a Payphone On Nicasio Reservoir?

For 50 years the Benner-Nawman company made phone booths and payphone gear they said "may take a mauling but you…

9 years ago

LinkNYC’s GSOD, and the Infrastructure Underneath.

If this kind of infrastructure interests you then feast your eyes on the underlying foundation of a LinkNYC device. Links…

9 years ago

Payphone Down. Broadway in Astoria.

This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this payphone are gone.

9 years ago

LinkNYC: Your New Homeless Office?

Citybridge's new LinkNYC devices have become magnets for loiterers of all stripes.

9 years ago

Regards from Telenor, the Norwegian Phone Company

Nortel, the largest phone company in Norway, has preserved about 100 of its classic red phone boxes. There used to…

9 years ago

Trump Tower Payphone: Still No Dial Tone

The only payphone at the Trump Tower still does not work. Will it ever? Prrrrobably not.

9 years ago

NBC Affiliate in Denver Talked to “The Guy Who Runs the Payphone Project”

I did a short interview yesterday with Channel 9, an NBC affiliate in Denver, on the occasion of anniversary of…

9 years ago

Down and Out. He Should Have a Telephone of His Own.

This haiku-like New York Telephone advertisement from the New York Times, June 13, 1906, shows that stigmas associated with payphone…

9 years ago