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Concord, Vermont. FairPoint Communications Phone Booth.

Erica Avery checks in again with these shots of a phone booth outside a FairPoint Communications building in Concord, Vermont.…

10 years ago

The Payphone Before and After Shot That Got Away

I had a camera on me but my hands were full. The moment passed before I could get coördinated enough…

10 years ago

Who Uses Payphones, And Why?

Between sickness and injury I've had a hard time moving forward on my many and varied projects. A plan to…

10 years ago

Descanso for Sabrina Mangos, and Memories of a Payphone

This old payphone was the site of a descanso in memory of a 10-year-old Australian girl killed at this spot…

11 years ago

New York City Payphone Locator: Help Edit

New York City's Payphone Locator takes data from the city's map of PPT (Public Pay Telephone) Locations and uses it…

11 years ago

Payphone of the East River, 11 Years Later

When I spotted this disembodied payphone component in the East River last week I immediately recognized it as the remains…

11 years ago

Payphone Project Makes the L.A. Times.

The author got my age wrong, but otherwise penned a nicely done piece on the enduring value of public telephones…

11 years ago

The Payphones Of Futures Past

A slightly shorter version of this story appeared earlier at Ask A New Yorker. The so-called "payphone of the future"…

11 years ago

Serial Podcast: The Mysterious Best Buy Payphone

This post from Nov. 7 was updated Nov. 23, 2014, for clarity, and to make a handful of new observations.…

11 years ago

Music at Grand Central Subway Station, Heard Through A Payphone

Thanks to Sarah Theeboom at Details.com for giving a shoutout to The Payphone Project's "Heard Through a Payphone" series: How…

11 years ago