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Advance, North Carolina: A Brief Saga of an Aging Payphone

Mark Mathosian writes about the slow demise of the last payphone in Advance, North Carolina.

5 years ago

The Trashing of Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal’s Payphones

Could the Ferry Terminal peeps have not come up with a more elegant way of sealing off the payphones? Like,…

5 years ago

Lower Manhattan Payphones Revisited

A tour of Lower Manhattan's payphone population found me making a call from a payphone right across the street from…

5 years ago

Hell’s Kitchen Still Has a Lot of Payphones

In February DoITT and CityBridge promised Hell's Kitchen Council Speaker Corey Johnson removal of payphone enclosures from his district. It…

5 years ago

Payphones at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

This double enclosure at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, catty-corner from the Port Authority Bus Terminal, is the most consistently…

5 years ago

Job Opening: Payphone Technician

With fresh ads being sold on the old payphone enclosures, and a "Payphone Technician" job up for grabs, it seems…

5 years ago

“Must Document!”

A payphone I used only occasionally vanished this week, bringing Astoria's payphone population down to 11. Just a couple of…

5 years ago

Five in a Row Taken Out on Junction Boulevard at 59th Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens

New York's payphone apocalypse continues, with five phones in a row taken out on Junction Boulevard at 59th Avenue in…

5 years ago

Something Strange at the Old 718-729-9331

Why would a public pay telephone connect to a recorded message saying my call could not be completed because I…

5 years ago

New York’s Payphone Apocalypse is Nigh

I would not know what rationale informs the decision to take out a particular phone, or if a coherent rationale…

5 years ago