Comments for The Payphone Project https://www.payphone-project.com Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Comment on (989) 856-6333 Rings a Rotary Dial Payphone In Michigan by bluetux01 https://www.payphone-project.com/989-856-6333-rings-a-rotary-dial-payphone-in-michigan.html#comment-76577 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:34:00 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=11444#comment-76577 it’s working now, rings about 10-15 times then goes to an intercept saying the customers not available if nobody answers

]]> Comment on Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library by Kandi Klover https://www.payphone-project.com/mid-manhattan-branch-new-york-public-library.html#comment-65361 Thu, 23 May 2024 03:46:52 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?p=5666#comment-65361 Libraries should absolutely not provide free telephones. The Payphone system works perfect as it is. Bums and ghetto trash people are too self obsessed these days and would just monopolize it even with a call timer.

]]> Comment on PRAY at Beyond the Streets by the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-62893 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-62893 In reply to PB.

PB – Did it look anything like this, which I’ve seen around town for years: https://youtu.be/zsKGFA2ytaw

]]> Comment on PRAY at Beyond the Streets by PB https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-62876 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-62876 (two crossed lines seemingly intended to be a cross) in magic marker on a subway entrance (near Columbus Circle) in 2011. Thing is, it was above you on an overhead structure as you went down the subway stairs. I have a picture. Too high for a person to reach with out help. So very unlikely it was that "elderly woman" as is part of the longtime "Pray" legend. But the "handwriting" was very similar to other pictures I have seen online from past instances. Glad I took the picture because it did not last, that station is kept up.]]> Saw PRAY ➕ (two crossed lines seemingly intended to be a cross) in magic marker on a subway entrance (near Columbus Circle) in 2011. Thing is, it was above you on an overhead structure as you went down the subway stairs. I have a picture. Too high for a person to reach with out help. So very unlikely it was that “elderly woman” as is part of the longtime “Pray” legend. But the “handwriting” was very similar to other pictures I have seen online from past instances. Glad I took the picture because it did not last, that station is kept up.

]]> Comment on Iowa Payphone Defends Itself. AP Story from October, 1984. by Carl Falk https://www.payphone-project.com/iowa-payphone-defends-itself-ap-story-from-october-1984.html#comment-61020 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:22:00 +0000 https://www.payphone-project.com/?p=14417#comment-61020 Einstein

]]> Comment on Search The Payphone Project by mitch https://www.payphone-project.com/search-the-payphone-project#comment-59153 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:49:31 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?page_id=4057#comment-59153 where are there payphones in san francisco. please let me know.

]]> Comment on Search The Payphone Project by Payphone https://www.payphone-project.com/search-the-payphone-project#comment-58937 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 04:17:31 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?page_id=4057#comment-58937 Looking for a payphone on my page or the page here in El Paso, Texas. But yeah, when I click on it

]]> Comment on Search The Payphone Project by the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/search-the-payphone-project#comment-58634 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:46:38 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?page_id=4057#comment-58634 In reply to georgia.

You can try this one.
https://phreaknet.org/payphones/
Honestly, though, tracking working payphones in the year 2023 is like captaining a sinking ship.

]]> Comment on Search The Payphone Project by georgia https://www.payphone-project.com/search-the-payphone-project#comment-58632 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:29:22 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?page_id=4057#comment-58632 is there a website or place to see where current payphones are? it would be usefull to have an updated payphone map

]]> Comment on Where Can I Find a Working Payphone in New York City? by the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/where-can-i-find-a-working-payphone-in-new-york-city.html#comment-57863 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:06:56 +0000 https://www.payphone-project.com/?p=13433#comment-57863 In reply to Jessie.

I think this one will rise again. It has had periods of outages before.
If you call its number (212-475-9707) you hear busy signal.
That’s a clue that the phone’s not dead. Not yet, at least.
It’s only when you hear the infernal beep-beep-beep signal that you know it’s game over.
The phone at Rockefeller Center is in a similar state.

]]> Comment on Where Can I Find a Working Payphone in New York City? by Jessie https://www.payphone-project.com/where-can-i-find-a-working-payphone-in-new-york-city.html#comment-57842 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:25:24 +0000 https://www.payphone-project.com/?p=13433#comment-57842 The one in Union Square finally stopped working. The TTY light still blinks, and the payphone itself is still there, but no dial tone.

]]> Comment on LinkNYC on Truecaller: 29 Spam Reports and Counting by Caleb https://www.payphone-project.com/linknyc-on-truecaller-29-spam-reports-and-counting.html#comment-57722 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:31:56 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9046#comment-57722 Spamcall

]]> Comment on How I Acquired a Coveted Phone Number by Jeff Axelrod https://www.payphone-project.com/how-i-acquired-a-coveted-phone-number.html#comment-57639 Tue, 30 May 2023 00:35:28 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=10449#comment-57639 This is awesome, thank you so, so much. I was just looking through my memorabilia box and came across my old phone book of pages torn out of a spiral bound book (likely Chandler’s assignment book.) The apology line and was under “ABC” and I was curious what ever happened to it.

]]> Comment on Did NYC Ever Have an “OO” Telephone Exchange? by the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/did-nyc-ever-have-an-oo-telephone-exchange.html#comment-56873 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:14:48 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=11012#comment-56873 In reply to Mark Sherman.

Yes, likely a joke. It is SNL, after all.

]]> Comment on Did NYC Ever Have an “OO” Telephone Exchange? by Mark Sherman https://www.payphone-project.com/did-nyc-ever-have-an-oo-telephone-exchange.html#comment-56872 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:42:39 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=11012#comment-56872 Nathans Famous catering telephone number: COney Island 6-3161

Easy to make a “C” look like an “O.” (Perhaps this was an inside joke.)

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