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TITAN: Turning Midtown Payphones Into An Outdoor Museum

There is some pretty good stuff on some Sixth Avenue payphones. "TITAN" brings the work of 12 artists to 12…

5 years ago

What We’re Really Paying For: Red Emergency Call Boxes

Watch this video for a tour of an archaic piece of street furniture for which New Yorkers pay millions, while…

5 years ago

A Video Tour of Long Island City’s Last Payphones

I've been on a video-making kick lately. This one has me traipsing familiar territory, along 21st Street in Long Island…

5 years ago

Caught In the Act. A Most Magical Moment.

This was awesome. Magical, even. I was making a video about this phone when a real world payphone user interrupted…

5 years ago

Dennis Novick, TCC Teleplex, and New York’s First Outdoor “Payphone of the Future”

The person who brought New York its first outdoor "payphone of the future" died earlier this year.

5 years ago

Sometimes Graffiti Just Works

This phone is among the last outdoor phones in New York not owned or confiscated by CityBridge, the consortium of…

5 years ago

REVISITED: The Old Wood Phone Booth at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Now we know. The phone number of the working (yes! working) payphone in the old wood phone booth at New…

5 years ago

My Copies of the APCC Payphone Trade Journal

Explore the inner workings of the payphone world in what was the industry's last official trade journal, Perspectives, published by…

5 years ago

Payphone Down at a Taco Bell on Northern Boulevard in Queens

Did this payphone simply give up? Did it fall in love with and start making out with the sidewalk? Was…

5 years ago

Yellow Mats are the New Street Furniture

New York's payphones are still hanging in there, with signs that dial tone may yet return to those neglected pieces…

5 years ago