Payphones Past

Then and Now

Payphone Gone: 37th Avenue @ 22nd Street, Queens

Only the mount pedestal remains of a payphone that once stood at 37th Avenue and 22nd Street in Long Island…

15 years ago

47th Street Payphone, 11 Years Later

This picture from early 1999 shows a man standing next to a payphone while talking on a cell phone as…

15 years ago

Steinway Street, Payphone Gone

This picture is from March, 2000. The payphone in this photo formerly stood outside of Unlimited Lingerie on Steinway Street…

15 years ago

Broadway and 50th Street

This set of four payphones and the individuals using them no longer stand at the corner of 50th Street and…

15 years ago

Midtown Payphone Survivors, Ten Years Later

Continuing my series of Payphones in New York City Then and Now, I present a set of payphone survivors in…

15 years ago

Ravenswood Payphone, 10 Years Later

Where are the payphones in New York City? Try the housing projects.Housing projects have lots of payphones, and most of…

15 years ago

An Astoria Payphone, Ten Years Later

Continuing my lightly-updated series of "Then and Now" pictures of payphones in New York City, I spent the last few…

15 years ago

Are There Any Payphones Around Gantry Park?

A lot has changed around Hunters Point South in Long Island City. Most of the payphones are gone. Some survive,…

15 years ago

New Jersey Turnpike Phone Booths

This is a really cool then-and-now sequence of pictures showing a set of phone booths on the New Jersey Turnpike.…

15 years ago

A Subway Payphone, 9½ Years Later

This before-and-after sequence spans 9½ years, and shows a payphone at the 36th Avenue/Washington Avenue subway station in Astoria. The…

16 years ago