Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Times Square Payphone Customer

I actually had to wait in line to use this Times Square payphone last week.

12 years ago

Upper East Side Payphone Customer

Try to imagine the story behind this well-dressed Upper East Side man using a payphone and toting a bottle of…

12 years ago

Payphone Innards

This shiny spool of metal wire, part of a payphone's innards, lay exposed for several weeks in a Manhattan subway…

12 years ago

Look Who Still Uses Payphones

This well-dressed Upper East side woman took a break from walking her dog to make a call from a Titan…

12 years ago

Montreal Payphones

Having watched the precipitous decline of public telephones in New York City and throughout the United States I found it…

12 years ago

(212) 473-9148. McSorley’s Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Bloombergia Tourist Hell Hole.

(212) 473-9148. McSorley's Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Tourist Bloombergia Hell Hole. This payphone accepts incoming calls. Happy at least to…

12 years ago

Chinatown, NYC: Pagoda Payphones Rediscovered

Bill Harris' "New York", a coffee table book published in 1979, captures some classic images of pre-Giuliani New York City.…

12 years ago

Operation Pay Phone (A CNN iReport)

This series of reports from CNN's iReport is from 2010, but it loses nothing for being a few years old.

12 years ago

Casino Queen Hits A Payphone Jackpot (Commercial)

The small but satisfying thrill of getting a quarter back from a payphone segues in to the more volcanic thrill…

12 years ago

Who Still Uses Payphones?

The Payphone Project's occasional reminder that people still use payphones.

12 years ago