Freedom Is Infinite Faith In Your Abilities
Sometimes inspirational graffiti makes sense. Not this time. Not to me at least.
It’s a NewTel Payphone in Union City, New Jersey. No, It Didn’t Work.
A quick tour of a NewTel payphone on Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, NJ.
How Not To Remove A Payphone
A payphone removal is supposed to be a pretty tidy affair. This was not that. A jagged eyesore where a payphone used to stand seems to invite calamity.
Northeastern Telecom, Abandoned Payphone in Sunset Park
An abandoned Northeast Telecom payphone reminds me of how many payphone service providers slipped away from being documented on the public Internet.
Fort Lee, NJ. I Found a “FATJAY LAYNE” Payphone
This phone, outside JD's Smoke Pit and Boiling Pot in Fort Lee, NJ, was abandoned over 18 years ago by a defunct company named Jupiter Payphones, Inc.
I Left a Quarter on a Payphone’s Tongue
Just another payphone picture.
Payphone Graffiti: “This Is My Mistake”
No comment, really. Just wanted to share a piece of payphone graffiti with a message that reached out to me.
Payphones Through the Deep Dream Generator
A few of my payphone pictures put through the Deep Dream Generator. Hey, why not?
When Photos From This Website Turned Up At A Chicago Subway Station
I never figured out who was responsible for this strangely brazen use of photos from this website for a public art piece in Chicago. But the kismet about its existence and the random connections it made were for the ages.
Next Frontier For Finding Dead Payphones: Laundromats.
Some dead/abandoned payphones I spotted at Queens laundromats last week.
A Little LinkNYC Doohickey I’ve Been Working On
LinkNYC's Kiosk Status dataset: Sometimes it works, most times I can't tell.
Chaka Khan’s “Hello Happiness”: It’s (Almost) All About the Phone Booth.
I find no connection between the video and the lyrics of the song. Regardless, Chaka Khan's "Hello Happiness" is beautiful to see and to hear.
Best Payphone Audio Capture In Months
Live music sounds different when funneled through the crackly, rugged sound world of a landline payphone.
You Can Call Me From a Payphone, But Not From LinkNYC
If anyone reading this is willing, could you try calling your phone from a LinkNYC machine and tell me, either in the comments or via email, if the call went through?
Charlie Brown in a Phone Booth
I was reading up on how telephone numbers in movies usually have 555 as the exchange. From this I learned a little bit of Charlie Brown trivia that was new to me.
Phone Booths in “The Telephone Book” (1971)
The movie, a comedy about phone sex, obscene phone calls, and pornography, contains a couple of interesting appearances of phone booths that do not include nudity. Here they are.
Seán Óg’s Has LinkNYC Coming To Its Front Door Soon. Or Does It?
Here's how to tell if a LinkNYC kiosk might be deposited outside your front door at some point in the future.
Payphone Scene From “Enemy”
Jake Gyllenhaal discovers that anonymity gets confusing when you are two people in one. It's a payphone scene from the 2013 film "Enemy"
Almost Immaculate Old Phone Booth In Astoria
On a tip from a friend I found what is probably the most immaculate old phone booth to be found anywhere in Astoria, Queens.
Hourly LinkNYC Kiosk Status Updates Arrive. Joy The World.
Without announcement (public, at least) CityBridge last month commenced publishing a Link Kiosk Status dataset that looked a little more promising than its predecessor. Despite my questions about the data’s accuracy and relevance I used it to map locations and functional status of LinkNYC kiosks. This new dataset replaces the previous, and at least appears…
All Quiet In LinkNYC Land
According to data released by CityBridge andThe City it appears there has not been a single LinkNYC installation in about 3½ months.
(607) 216-9781 Replaces (212) 477-3063 As The New (702) 992-9550
Unannounced in any venue I can find is the news that CityBridge replaced Vonage with RingCentral as the VOIP provider for the LinkNYC kiosk’s free nationwide phone call feature.
LinkNWK Already Looks a Lot Like LinkNYC
I found plenty of working payphones in Newark. The new LinkNWK Smart City kiosks were not so promising.
LinkNYC’s Manufacturing Facility Demolished
LinkNYC's manufacturing plant at 11-37 31st Avenue has been demolished.
What The Heck Was “LinkNYC Alert”?
A rah-rah piece about LinkNYC in Venturebeat briefly and unintentionally included a strange image of something called "LinkNYC Alert". What was it?
LinkNYC: Guess The Current Temperature
Weather conditions reported by LinkNYC vary so much from one machine to the next that guessing which report is accurate is like a multiple-choice quiz.
LinkNYC Kiosk Installations Have Come to a Halt, and Other Observations
Last week I posted a map of LinkNYC kiosks with the reported functional status of each machine’s WiFi, tablet, and phone. That data is pulled from NYC.gov’s OpenData portal. You can read more details about the data and the map here. In short, this dataset is said to provide a more-or-less real time snapshot of…
LinkNYC: On This Day, and Missing the Bus Revisited
Was it on this day, that day, or another day? Who's to say? Also, I put LinkNYC's bus arrival time feature to more of a test than I did last time, concluding once again that it is of value to absolutely nobody.