Wood booths like this remain relatively common at older restaurants and bars around town. Most of NYC's old phone booths have been converted to closets or, as in this instance, a display case for holiday cheer. Cell phone users sometimes retreat to these old booths to get away from the noise, and amorous couples sometimes duck in to use the booths as makeout chambers.
People Still Use Payphones.
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These old booths are in a parking garage located underneath the Boat Basin Café. These phone booths have a roof over them and appear to be in what Jane Fowler Jones might have called The Unknown Deeps of Manhattan Island but they are, in fact, well above ground.
A swirl of New York Telephone, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon brands is seen on this NYC payphone.
A few months ago, in an exchange of photos between this web site and Turk Telecom, I snapped several shots of payphone display advertising in Manhattan. In exchange for these photos Turk Telecom sent over photos from its recent series of phone booths decorated with country-specific art for the 2010 FIBA World Cup. Each of these booths is topped by a likeness of a country's landmark.
People Still Use Payphones
A friend sends these photos of an overgrown, forgotten phone booth in Wales. There is still a payphone in this booth.
What is the future of the neighborhood payphone, unadorned by advertising, its survival depending entirely on paid usage?
Possibly the most famous phone booth scene in all moviedom, this screengrab from Hitchcock's "The Birds" shows a three-slot rotary dial payphone inside a phone booth that is soon pummeled -- pummeled -- by birds.
MPNnow.com reports: “Town Supervisor Ted Fafinski recently learned that he has lost the last hope of sparing the Verizon payphone by having it declared a Public Interest Payphone by the state’s Public Service Commission. While the state believed the phone met the criteria for the designation because it fills a public safety need, no private…
The Payphone Project spotted a phantom Bell Atlantic sign, lurking high over the garage door of an auto body shop.
I started collecting sounds of payphones, and I shall begin sharing this ongoing collection with a signal rarely-heard today: the chirping, synthetic sound of a ringing payphone. Click to listen: An interesting thing about this particular payphone heard in this sample is that it accepts incoming calls, but with a catch: the person who answers…
MPNnow.com reports on Farmington, NY’s, battle to keep Verizon from taking its payphone away: “‘My biggest concern is someone getting hurt, over in the park on a weekend, who doesn’t have a cell phone,’ said Ted Fafinski, Farmington town supervisor. A lot of parents won’t let their kids have their cell phones on hand while…
Nothing remains of this payphone, photographed in March, 2004. Nothing, that is, save for the metal spikes in the sidewalk, those slivers of detritus which mark the spots where countless payphones used to stand on city sidewalks and walkways. The above photo was originally posted to my New York City Payphones Gallery. I do not…
This payphone, once located near the Blackout Payphone, is gone, as are a number of other objects which once lined this curbside at 2927 41st Avenue at Queens Plaza. Plaza Video, a smut shop seen in the background, has been replaced a couple of times since this picture was taken in November, 2006. At present…
This horribly blurry and wobbly picture shows a payphone at the 5th Avenue subway stop in May, 2000. For obvious reasons I never posted this picture, but upon seeing it now I think it makes sense to use it as part of this Payphones Then and Now series, showing payphone locations around New York as…
The New York Times notes the passing of Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky. His poem “Phone Booth” follows. Someone is loose in Moscow who won’t stopRinging my phone.Whoever-it-is listens, then hangs up.Dial tone. What do you want? A bushel of rhymes or so?An autograph? A bone?Hello?Dial tone. Someone’s lucky number, for all I know,Is the same,…
I thought this was a strange location for a payphone. Located in the shadow of the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, I-278) this Verizon payphone stood outside of a tombstone manufacturer on Laurel Hill Boulevard near 48th Street as recently as March, 2010, when I got these two pictures. The payphone was near a Q39 bus stop,…
In March, 2001, a payphone stood outside the Mexicano Grocery Store: Today the payphone is not the only thing gone from the northwest corner of 21st Street and 31st Road in Long Island City, Queens. The entire building containing the Mexicano Grocery Store was obliterated, clearing the way for a vacant lot now fenced off…
Dan Z. was there when the bastards took our phone booths away! The insufferable, unimaginable, unquenchable, inexhaustible bastards hauled off the phone booths from the Vince Lombardi Service Stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. This handsome series of metal phone booths is gone, gone, gone. The above picture shows the “face of evil” spiriting the…