No Dial Tone Here But the Old New York Telephone Era Signage is Cool

These are in what I’m going to call Jackson Heights, at 74th Street and 37th Road. I interpret this spot as a crossover intersection among Jackson Heights, Woodside, and Elmhurst, so take your pick as to which part of Queens you want this to be in.

Neither phone works and one of the advertising panels has been in a gutted-out state of squalor for at least a year.

The old school New York Telephone era signs are of interest, especially since one of them is upside down.

The phones will probably never work again but, that gutted out advertising panel notwithstanding, the SpareRoom advertising panel on the left side of the enclosure is new, proving yet again that payphone enclosures of today are not out there to provide access to public telephones but to make money for CityBridge, and the City, by selling ad space.