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Payphone Confidential: Rotary Dial Payphone, NYC, 2009

This grainy photo, taken with a Treo cell phone camera, shows a real rarity. This is a fully functional rotary…

16 years ago

212-245-9500, Then and Now

Here is a midtown Manhattan public telephone location that has survived the payphone meltdown of the last 15 years. It…

16 years ago

Then and Now: A 36th Avenue Payphone in Astoria

The first photo is from May, 2003, and shows a payphone outside of Tiffany Insurance on 36th Avenue and 32nd…

16 years ago

Then and Now: A Getty Station Payphone

I was reminded last week of a project that I have meant to pursue for some time: Then and Now:…

16 years ago

Cemetery Payphone Revisited

Two of my life's loves meet in this alley near New Calvary Cemetery on Queens Boulevard. It is a payphone…

16 years ago

Phone Booths of NYC

It looks like someone at this web site found my photo series of the Last Phone Booths of Manhattan, a…

16 years ago

Fading Tech: Dialup Internet

A look at WFMU.org, the web site of WFMU, shows that dial-up Internet users will not be able to access…

16 years ago

Why?

There have always been those who find the Payphone Project and ask one question: Why? Why maintain a web site…

16 years ago

Laser Turntable

I landed on this product web site through the Random Yahoo Link. This "laser turntable" presents an interesting solution to…

16 years ago

Are there any payphone news?

"Are there any news?" is a grammatical pique supposedly coined by newsman Horace Greeley. In reply to that question one…

16 years ago