I spotted this payphone in October (on 10/10/2010, to be exact). Something tells me that when I pass this spot again this payphone hulk so ignominiously suffocating under a plastic bag will be gone.
Payphones like this, stuffed into alleyways and in the free spaces between buildings, are increasingly hard to find.
I hope to resume my Payphones Then and Now series in the coming weeks. I have recently spotted a number of removals of payphones which I photographed months and years ago.
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These charmers are a recent discovery for me.
https://youtu.be/ajkLQ3RJrsY I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS…
https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at…
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview…