LinkNYC: How Did We Get Here?
A little bit of history on how and why New York City's phone booths of the past evolved into LinkNYC.
Rough Couple of Weeks for CityBridge/LinkNYC
From its payphones to its financial failings, CityBridge and its LinkNYC program had a rough couple of weeks.
Intersection to Build an Open Data Dashboard for LinkNYC
I hope whoever gets this internship uses better data than CityBridge currently publishes at NYC.gov. If the current public dataset is all this future intern has to work with then I don't see the point of the Open Data Dashboard for LinkNYC.
Guerrilla Marketing for Payphone Radio, and Other Connections
Making connections, one payphone at a time.
718-624-9288, Jay Street-MetroTech Subway Station in Brooklyn. It Works.
I unexpectedly found a working payphone at a Brooklyn subway station today.
Abandoned Payphone Stand in Brownsville, Brooklyn
What could a BMW dealership on Long Island possibly have to do with the ghost of a payphone in Brownsville, Brooklyn?
Strange Doings at 1-800-WEATHER
Was 1-800-WEATHER seized by the Internal Revenue Service? Or by a pot shop in Seattle? Or both?
Phone Booth at the Great Valley Motel in Wellsboro, PA
A few photos of a single phone booth in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, by Daniel Hopsicker.
711 From LinkNYC: I Spoke Too Soon
I gave myself too much credit in getting someone to fix LinkNYC's inability to connect to the 711 relay service. Oh well.
Phone Booths to be Removed Soon from West Side After Complaints – amNewYork
An article at AMNY reports that about 30 payphones on 9th Avenue in midtown are on the chopping block, thanks to community complaints and CityBridge's reportedly poor maintenance.
Payphones of “The Glitter Dome” (1984)
Payphones make a couple of appearances in "The Glitter Dome". The second scene is more interesting for its demonstration of an element of bar and payphone culture that has pretty well completely vanished.
Boston Pagoda Payphone at Harrison and Kneeland, 2014
The last pagoda payphones in New York's Chinatown disappeared a few years ago, and this payphone enclosure from Boston, at Harrison and Kneeland, is gone as well.
K2 Phone Box, Victoria Embankment. Photos by Paul Voller.
Paul Voller, who has occasionally contributed photos to this website for many years, returns with these images of a K2 phone box beautified with a stained glass display at London's Victoris Embankment.
Remembering the Golden Days of LinkNYC.
“Caller states the Links are well intentioned but poorly executed.; causing problems that did not previously exist”
I Gave LinkNYC Kiosks Another Chance at Making Phone Calls
I gave the phone calling feature of LinkNYC kiosks another chance after an unexpected question from a neighbor. If conditions align just perfectly I find that calls can be made over the kiosks without having to scream.
There Is, Of Course, a Phone Booth Stuffed With Kegs in Speculator, New York
Phone Booth Full of Kegs. Photo by Daniel Hopsicker. Speculator, NY.
711 Now Connects From LinkNYC
The 711 Relay Service is now reachable from LinkNYC, and I'm going to go ahead and give myself some credit for this.
Talking on an Astoria Payphone. March, 2014.
Just a dude in Astoria, Queens, talking on a now-gone payphone.
Boston Payphones, 2014: Dartmouth and Stuart
Outside an Eastern Bank in Boston, these phones' numbers would be (617) 247-1255 and (617) 247-1249, if they still stand today.
Public Phones are, or Rather *Were*, Found in the Likeliest Places!
Just some images I scanned from an old Bell Telephone ad found in a desk drawer, probably an eBay purchase from years ago.
Phone Booth Scene From “The Open Road” (2009)
A mildly intriguing phone booth scene from an unremarkable movie had me asking more questions about payphones than about the storyline unfolding on the screen.
Continuing my Roundup of Boston Payphones from 2014
These two back-to-back payphones, at 617-338-6433 and 617-338-6548, appear to remain active on Summer Street, near Macy's, in Boston, 5½ years after I took these photos, and who knows how many years since first deployed.
Almost Perfect Airlight Phone Booth
Daniel Hopsicker spotted an almost-perfect phone booth with a fully functional payphone at the Eagle Erie Baptist Conference Center off of Route 501, northwest of Lynchburg, VA.
(813) 873-9418: A Payphone of Legend
Memories of the first payphone to which I remember ever having regular access. Oh, how I worked this phone at my high school. This is a rewrite of a story I wrote a long time ago.
Phone Booth Scene from “Strangers on a Train”
This scene doesn't seem like much but it does play a pretty important part in the overall plot of Hitchcock's film released in 1951.
Some Payphones Simply Never Go Away
Whoever used to own underdog Payphones left a lot of payphones behind on the sidewalks, but most have finally been removed. Not this one.
Review: I am a “One-Man Telephone Reality Show”
My Internet radio projects are not for everybody, so it is especially gratifying to connect with someone out there who just gets it.
Little Kid on the Payphone, February 2014
I think this was at the 5th Avenue 7 train subway station.