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Payphones of Chinatown: I Got Them Just In Time.

Only three weeks after I captured these videos of Chinatown's last payphones it appears all or most of them are…

5 years ago

Death, Life, Mortality, and Payphones. A Walking Tour of Old Calvary Cemetery in Queens.

I spent a couple of hours at Old Calvary Cemetery in Queens with Jessi Highet and Mike Varley, giving them…

5 years ago

Video: Long Dead Payphones by the Verrazano-Narrows in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

This looks like a cool spot for a filming location should a director need or benefit from an authentic 1990s-era…

5 years ago

Payphones of The Bronx and Harlem. January 2, 2021.

I took the 4 to Fordham to check in on some straggler PTS payphones, as well as a couple of…

5 years ago

Payphones of 125th Street, New Years Day

In which I spotted something I have never seen in the wild before: A payphone TTY keyboard rolled out and,…

5 years ago

Some Midtown East Payphones Documented, and One For My Personal Scrapbook

This tour, from yesterday, includes yet more discussion about PRAY and shots of some surviving PRAYphones. I hope I don't…

5 years ago

Blizzard Payphone, Before and After People Started Using It Again

People still use payphones. But we knew that already, didn't we?

5 years ago

Payphone Video: West 4th Street is Back in Business, and Some Notes from Midtown

I earned a small jackpot after hanging up the Rockefeller Center payphone last week. What I don't understand is why…

5 years ago

Tour of Some Payphones in the Bronx, Upper East Side, and the Port Authority Subway Station

Here's what I could find of payphones in three separate parts of town. Not much dial tone to be heard…

5 years ago

I Witnessed a Payphone Being Removed Yesterday

I just happened to have been present at the removal of an Astoria payphone yesterday morning. It is always jarring…

5 years ago