Old Wood Phone Booth at New York Presbyterian Hospital
Old wood phone booths are rare enough in New York. This one stands out for having an actual working payphone inside.
Advance, North Carolina: A Brief Saga of an Aging Payphone
Mark Mathosian writes about the slow demise of the last payphone in Advance, North Carolina.
Abandoned Verizon Payphone on Madison Street: 212-962-8239
When I can I like to see if the numbers for these old, rotting phones still appear on this website. It takes me back the olden days, when The Payphone Project functioned as a genuinely valuable resource.
The Trashing of Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal’s Payphones
Could the Ferry Terminal peeps have not come up with a more elegant way of sealing off the payphones? Like, barricading them with billboards, or additional seating, or food trucks, or something besides a bunch of Hefty bags?
Lower Manhattan Payphones Revisited
A tour of Lower Manhattan's payphone population found me making a call from a payphone right across the street from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Manhattan's maximum security prison.
Elmhurst, Queens: Abandoned NYTEL Payphone Since At Least 15 Years
Just another abandoned NYTEL payphone, this one in Elmhurst, Queens, since at least 2009.
Salvador Dalí Had a Phone Booth Next to His Swimming Pool
Whether the booth ever contained any kind of telephone is not known to me.
Hell’s Kitchen Still Has a Lot of Payphones
In February DoITT and CityBridge promised Hell's Kitchen Council Speaker Corey Johnson removal of payphone enclosures from his district. It doesn't look like that actually happened.
(989) 856-6333 Rings a Rotary Dial Payphone In Michigan
This Michigan payphone is accessible to all, accepts incoming calls, and outgoing calls cost 10¢. Give it a call if you want to try to reach out and touch someone.
Payphones at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
This double enclosure at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, catty-corner from the Port Authority Bus Terminal, is the most consistently and reliably urine-stenched payphone I know of in New York. It seems the spot is always freshly urinated upon any time I set foot upon it, making my eyes water and my tummy churn. Yet, I use the phones anyway. Because they just f*ing work.
Job Opening: Payphone Technician
With fresh ads being sold on the old payphone enclosures, and a "Payphone Technician" job up for grabs, it seems there might be a future yet for New York's payphones.
“Must Document!”
A payphone I used only occasionally vanished this week, bringing Astoria's payphone population down to 11. Just a couple of months ago there were dozens.
Five in a Row Taken Out on Junction Boulevard at 59th Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens
New York's payphone apocalypse continues, with five phones in a row taken out on Junction Boulevard at 59th Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens.
Something Strange at the Old 718-729-9331
Why would a public pay telephone connect to a recorded message saying my call could not be completed because I don't have enough account credits?
New York’s Payphone Apocalypse is Nigh
I would not know what rationale informs the decision to take out a particular phone, or if a coherent rationale even exists. Has the time come when the City finally decrees that public telephones should not exist?
Titjikala Payphone
Only payphone I've seen with a water spigot attachment. From Australia's North Territory, @Chris Allan Photography.
Daniel Hopsicker: K-Mart Payphone in Conway, South Carolina
Most likely gone by now, this phone was owned by Frontier Communications, probably the largest of the historically established telcos in America still doing payphones. It's a photo from return contributor Daniel Hopsicker.
Dude Talking On One Of Penn Station’s 14 Remaining Payphones
Penn Station may, at this point, have the highest number of working payphones under one roof in New York City. Most other transit hubs in New York got rid of their payphones altogether.
Telephonic Ephemera from “Serpico”: TRafalgar-6 and LExington-5
Last night's hunt for PRAY in the 1973 film "Serpico" turned up an unexpected bit of telephonic trivia. A van from Du Valle Cleaners passes by with a few telephone numbers in the old telephone exchange name format.
PRAYphones Gone From Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan lost some of its religion during the pandemic, and not just because of church closures. Two of Manhattan's few remaining PRAYphones disappeared from 51st Street, across from St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Strange Way To Vandalize a LinkNYC Kiosk
What message is someone trying to communicate by perfectly covering a LinkNYC tablet screen with an opaque black material?
Payphone Down in Astoria
It will be interesting to see if this phone, which either got struck by a vehicle or had too much to drink, will get removed altogether, or if the structure will get either repaired or replaced.
One Of LinkNYC’s Most Obnoxious Features Finally Remedied
New Yorkers within earshot of LinkNYC kiosks are no longer serenaded by obnoxiously loud noise made when anyone makes a phone call from the device. We still, however, get to hear both sides of the conversation.
Sybil Gooley: NJ Botanical Garden, Ringwood, NJ
A beauty among beauty, at Ringwood, NJ, this week. Beauty, A relic among the relics, it seems. And a PTS phone to boot, most likely still works. Posted by Payphone Project on Friday, 22 May 2020
Maine’s Public Interest Payphones
Take a tour of Maine's Public Interest Payphones, deployed at locations throughout the state in the interest of public safety.
917-341-5504 is Now LinkNYC’s CallerID, and Other Observations
Usage stats are no longer published, but you could make the case that LinkNYC during the pandemic has not only failed completely at bridging the so-called “digital divide”, but even widened it by placing its free internet and phone service in communities that need it the least. With libraries closed and NYCHA Digital Vans not coming around the less affluent are more disenfranchised than ever.
Payphone Gone. 31st Street and 38th Avenue in Astoria.
An amazing thing about these payphone enclosures is how successfully they cancel out the noise of the above-ground subway, allowing one to continue a conversation without having to scream. The same cannot be said of the LinkNYC kiosks that threaten to replace and supplement the quantity of today's NYC payphones.
How To Use a Phone Booth In This Year of 2020
I spotted this woman talking on her smartphone from within a payphone enclosure. That's how we use payphone enclosures these days.