Little Kid on the Payphone, February 2014
I think this was at the 5th Avenue 7 train subway station.
There Really Did Used To Be Payphones All Over The Place
As recently as 2009 you could find public pay telephones at almost every street corner and intersection in New York. These photos are all from one single day in November, 2009.
Brookville Telephone: Mannequin in a Phone Booth on Route 6 in Pennsylvania
Just an unusual and intriguing photo of a mannequin holding the handset of a rotary dial payphone, spotted by Daniel Hopsicker on Route 6 in Pennsylvania.
My LinkNYC Number Crunching Gets Some Respect
With help from reporters at THECITY I learned that at least some of the information found in the LinkNYC Kiosk Status Dataset is accurate. But how much financial damage is CityBridge really feeling from City-issued fines and penalties?
No Access to 711 from CityBridge Payphones or LinkNYC Kiosks
CityBridge, which owns all of NYC's outdoor payphones and LinkNYC kiosks, has disabled access to 711, the free service that allows deaf and mute people to make phone calls.
Payphone Knot
Just a picture of a payphone cord tied up in an OCD-fueled knot.
Long-Dead Payphone at the Crown Motel, née Crown Motor Inn, Queens Boulevard
Close-ups of a long-dead payphone outside a notorious hourly-rates motel on Queens Boulevard.
36th Avenue/Washington Avenue in Astoria, ~1997, Maybe Later
Just a picture of a credit-card-only phone at the 36th Avenue/Washington Avenue train station in Astoria, circa 1997, maybe later.
New York Payphone and Phone Booth Photos by Daniel Hopsicker
Select payphone and phone booth photos from Daniel Hopsicker's travels through New York State.
Craaaazy Payphone. January, 2007.
Rummaging through digital detritus on my 12TB RAID turned up this photo of an arted-up payphone at Queens Plaza in January, 2007. Anyone know the artist?
China Telecom Multimedia Telephone
China Telecom's Multimedia Telephone includes something notably absent from LinkNYC kiosks: A telephone handset.
Boston Common Payphones, July 2014
My quest continues to find payphones of Boston from 2014 that still work today in 2020. No such luck today. The 5 payphones in a row at Boston Common all appear gone.
Boston Payphones, 2014
Boston payphone pictures from 2014. All the phones in set seem to be gone but other in Boston survive. I will try and post my 2014 photos of those.
(718) 520-9592. Queens Boulevard and 64th Road.
One of the few remaining outdoor NYC payphones where the ANI check matches the number printed on the phone. (718) 520-9592.
“Do You Need a Phone?”
An elderly woman last week saw me at a payphone and asked if I needed a phone. Why do I make so many payphone calls?
Upstate New York Payphone Photos by Daniel Hopsicker
New York photos from a photographer who shares the same fascination with payphones and phone booths as I.
Grand Central’s Last Working Payphone is Gone
When a place like Grand Central Terminal gets rid of it last lowest common denominator resource for something so fundamental as making a phone call it feels like something has turned, once and for all, in the world of public communications.
The Last Working Payphone in Central Park is No More
Of about a dozen or so payphones scattered throughout Central Park this one, at the Model Boat Sailing place, was the last one that worked.
New LinkNYC Kiosks
They do not appear in the official datasets nor on the Find-a-Link map, but a few new LinkNYC kiosks recently appeared on the Upper East Side.
Payphones of Roanoke, Virginia, by Daniel Hopsicker
Daniel Hopsicker has been taking pictures of payphones for a long time. Now he's sharing some of his work with The Payphone Project.
Phone Booth Scene from “9½ Weeks”
The phone booth scene from "9½ Weeks" leaves viewers more with the idea of the phone booth, not its haunting visual image. But then Kim Basinger is a lot more interesting to look at than a phone booth.
Beautiful Phone Booth at Onderdonk & Brothers, Ridgewood
Something really does ignite in me when I encounter old wood phone booths like this one in Ridgewood, Queens.
Payphones of “Sorry Wrong Number” (1948)
Vestiges of payphone behavior from an earlier generation are seen in this set of excerpts from "Sorry Wrong Number", a 1948 noir-like thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck and Bert Lancaster.
Phone Booth Scene from “The Savage Eye”, 1960.
Barbara Baxley makes a phone call in the 1960 film "The Savage Eye".
Rogue Payphone Going, Going, Gone.
The far end of the parking lot at an abandoned Sports Authority in Long Island City was, truth be told, a really cool place to make a phone call.
Found a Payphone Scene in “The Big Easy”
Not a particularly remarkable appearance of a payphone in "The Big Easy" from 1986.
Unasked Questions About LinkNYC
Coverage of LinkNYC seems always to gravitate toward privacy and surveillance concerns when there are so many more interesting questions to ask.
How I Acquired a Coveted Phone Number
Certain phone numbers are iconic in my life. 212-255-2748 is one such number.