The Payphone Project > Pictures of Payphones

World Trade Center, Twin Towers Payphones, probably 1994 or 1995.

Outside the Time & Life Building
Outside the Time & Life Building

Outside the Time & Life Building
Outside the Time & Life Building

Boat Bar. 175 Smith St., Brooklyn
Photo by Comedian Daniel Kilpatrick

(212) 675-4728. Basement of IFC Film Center. 323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014

21st Street at 33rd Avenue, Queens
This payphone went poof. See what I mean by that here: Poof Goes the Payphone.

33rd Street, Manhattan, across from B&H Photo
33rd Street, Manhattan, across from B&H Photo April 4, 1999

35th avenue payphone

36th Avenue subway, Queens
36th Avenue subway, Queens

Brand New Payphone, Queens.
Brand New Payphone, Queens. April 9, 1999

36th avenue payphone 02

36th avenue subway payphone

46th Street, Manhattan - Orelhão style payphone
Orelhão style payphone. 46th Street, Manhattan - "Little Brazil" between 5th and 6th Avenues. March 26, 1999.

48th Street, Manhattan
48th Street, Manhattan. April 8, 1999

Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan

66th Street Subway
66th Street Subway

Crescent Street, Queens. 718-728-9460
Crescent Street, Queens - This payphone is gone. It used to be outside a Walgreens. The number, evidently, was 718-728-9460.

Payphones in Action. Rockefeller Center. January, 1999.
Read more about these and other removed Rockefeller Center payphones at PayphoneNews.com.

Two of three Bell Atlantic Payphones at Rockefeller Center. May, 2000.
This photo shows two of three payphone booths that once existed at Rockefeller Center. The numbers were (212) 664-9470, (212) 664-9471, and (212) 664-9473.

Inside a phone booth near Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center. January, 1999.
(212) 664-9403. Read more about these and other removed Rockefeller Center payphones at PayphoneNews.com.

Payphone Action Shot. January, 1999.
Read more about these and other removed Rockefeller Center payphones at PayphoneNews.com.

Cortlandt Street Subway Station Payphone. January, 1999.

Cortlandt Street Subway Station Payphone. January, 1999.

Times Square 42nd Street Subway Station Payphone. January, 1999.

(212) 725-9391, (212) 223-9719. 47th Street near 3rd Avenue

(212) 599-9089, (212) 599-8956. 46th Street near 3rd Avenue.

(646) 487-2331. (646) 487-2319. Payphones near Sparks Steak House.

(212) 599-9204, (212) 490-9133. 40th Street and Third Avenue.

(212) 874-8110, no number for 2nd phone. Third Avenue at 39th Street.

Mutant payphone keypad: It's got 2 stars and no # (pound) key

(718) 728-9711. Corner Payphone. 21st St., & 29th Ave., Long Island City

2nd Ave. & 60th St., Roosevelt Island Tram Station. (212) 308-8037, (212) 308-8035

Roosevelt Island. Main Street. (212) 308-8006, (212) 308-8001
See (212) 308-8001 listed at the Payphone Project. See (212) 308-8006 listed at the Payphone Project.

Roosevelt Island. Main Street. (212) 308-8006, (212) 308-8001
See (212) 308-8001 listed at the Payphone Project. See (212) 308-8006 listed at the Payphone Project.

Roosevelt Island. Main Street. (212) 308-8006, (212) 308-8001

Gristede's, Roosevelt Island. (212) 355-9600

Gristede's, Roosevelt Island. (212) 355-9600
The (212) 355-9600 payphone number was formerly assigned to a payphone at the Sloan's Supermarket at 2 Bennett Avenue in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

(212) 599-9359. 40th Street & 1st Avenue. Manhattan.
(212) 599-9359. 40th Street & 1st Avenue. Manhattan.

(718) 777-3204. Astoria Blvd. Across from St. Michael's Cemetery. Van Wagner.

SKUZZ Payphone

(718) 429-9706. Ditmars Blvd. & 94th St.

(718) 429-9706. Ditmars Blvd. & 94th St. Near LaGuardia Airport.

Van Wagner Payphone Signage

Contrasts in Communication. Sunnyside, Queens.

(718) 729-9333. Van Dam Street and 48th Avenue, Long Island City.
This Titan payphone is located outside the Van Wagner Operations Center. Titan and Van Wagner are competitors in the display advertising and public telephone space.

(718) 699-8824. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

Abandoned Verizon Payphone
Verizon payphone near a cemetery. Like everything else here, the line is dead.

Abandoned Verizon Payphone
This is one of the few remaining outdoor payphones that bears all Verizon branding.

A Payphone's Cry For Help?

(718) 424-2670. Roosevelt Avenue between Citi Field and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Abandoned Verizon Payphones. (718) 784-9763, (718) 784-9806.
A pair of non-working Verizon payphones in Long Island City. (718) 784-9763, (718) 784-9806.

Wood Phone Booth, NYC. March, 2012.

Payphone at the end of the road (more on this later)

Dial 0

Abandoned Gas Station Payphone. East 2nd St./Loisaida Ave.
Abandoned Pay Payphone at a Mobil Gas Station. East 2nd St./Loisaida Ave., NYC. This abandoned payphone is owned by Global Network Communications, PO Box 1106, Darien, CT 06820. 1-800-318-7391.

(212) 475-9848. Stanton Street.

Clinton and Delancey Street Payphone. September, 2012.

Delancey and Clinton Street Bus Stop.

101 Delancey Street, at the Happiness Deli

130 Eldridge Street. Chinese Hispanic Grocery. September, 2012.
You lookin' at my payphone? What'd you do with my payphone? Hey, where's my damn payphone?

302 Broome Street. Abandoned Payphone. Coastal Communications.

2nd Avenue Station, F Train. Abandoned Verizon Payphones. (212) 674-9620
These abandoned payphones are owned by Verizon. The phone on the left had no readable payphone number information. The payphone on the right showed (212) 674-9820, which was opriginally listed on the Payphone Project.

Vector Media Payphone. Queens Boulevard. May, 2012.

(212) 952-9181, (212) 952-9889. State Street & Bridge Street SWC F/S. 06212VZ8

(212) 952-9078, (212) 952-9154. Outside the National Museum of the American Indian.

212-952-9035. Bowling Green Subway Station
212-952-9035

(718) 458-7599. Mozart Music Studio. 56-20 Woodside Avenue. Woodside, Queens.

(718) 424-9074. Woodside Cosmopolitan Grocery. 43-02 58th Street. Woodside, NY 11377

(718) 729-9409. 48th Street & Queens-Midtown Expressway, Queens
718-729-9409 Payphone Number originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(718) 278-9590. 20th Avenue & 36th Street, Astoria
(718) 278-9590 payphone location originally posted on the Payphone Project

(718) 728-9396 - Astoria Park Payphone
This payphone at Astoria Park had no dial tone when I encountered it in mid-June, 2012. I once used this phone to call 311 to report a dead cat on Hoyt Avenue. I was on hold for a very long time before giving up. (718) 728-9396 payphone location originally listed on the Payphone Project.

(212) 246-9214. 49th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, Downtown Platform. June, 2012.
Like a lot of subway payphones, (212) 246-9214 was listed on the Payphone Project as being in Brooklyn even though it is in Manhattan.

(212) 246-8475. 49th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, Downtown Platform. June, 2012.
Like a lot of New York City subway payphones, (212) 246-8575 was listed on the Payphone Project as being in Brooklyn even though it is in Manhattan.

(212) 490-6376. Grand Central Station.
The number shown on this non-working Times Square payphone is (212) 490-6376. No incoming calls are accepted and calls made from this and other Pacific Telemanagement (PTS) payphones show phony caller ID, making it look like the calls are coming from the Las Vegas, Nevada, phone number of (702) 992-9550

(718) 278-9720
This phone was on 31st Street near 34th Avenue, outside El Boqueron Tapas in Astoria. Today it is gone.

(646) 674-0864. PTS Payphone. 34th Street 1/2/3 Subway Station.

(212) 502-5755. PTS Payphone. 34th Street 1/2/3 Subway Station.

(212) 564-4063. GTL Global Tel Link Payphone.
This GTL (Global Tel* Link) payphone is near the 33rd Street PATH Station and the Manhattan Mall. I have not seen many GTL payphones in New York. The placard says you can dial 1-877-GTL4LESS from any phone for discount collect calls. I hate it when a phone number that is spelled out like that has 8 characters. The real phone number would be 1-877-GTL4LES, since the last S is ignored. Leave off the last S for what? Shambala? GTL 4 Les Paul? This phone also has an unusual shortcut: Dial *21 for police emergencies.

(212) 216-9158. GTL Global Tel Link Payphone.
This GTL (Global Tel* Link) payphone is near the 33rd Street PATH Station and the Manhattan Mall. I have not seen many GTL payphones in New York. The placard says you can dial 1-877-GTL4LESS from any phone for discount collect calls. I hate it when a phone number that is spelled out like that has 8 characters. The real phone number would be 1-877-GTL4LES, since the last S is ignored. Leave off the last S for what? Shambala? GTL 4 Les Paul? This phone also has an unusual shortcut: Dial *21 for police emergencies.

(212) 599-9801. Titan Payphone @ 45th St. & 1st Ave., Across From the United Nations
I wish I had posted this payphone number and location a long time ago. Evidently this Titan payphone across the street from the United Nations was used by a runaway to call her mother, who posted here looking for information about the payphone's exact location. Read more about this payphone at PayphoneNews.com.

(646) 487-2325. 2nd Ave & 41st St, SE Corner. Coastal Communications Payphones.

(212) 490-9763. Titan Payphone. 40th Street and 2nd Avenue, NE Corner
(212) 490-9763 was originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(212) 223-8646. Lexington Avenue Subway Station, N/Q/R platform
(212) 223-8646 was originally listed on the Payphone Project, appearing to be at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn and not where it was actually located: in the Lexington Avenue Subway Station in Manhattan. Click here to hear the recorded announcement which informed me that this payphone had been disconnected.

Battered and bedraggled. This payphone was recently removed.

(212) 730-5396. 50 West 40th Street, across from Bryant Park

(212) 704-0649, (212) 704-0892. 70 West 40th Street, across from Bryant Park.

(212) 221-9238, (212) 221-9354. 6th Avenue near 40th Street. Titan.
(212) 221-9238 and (212) 221-9354 were originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(212) 719-3830. 40th Street and 6th Avenue, NW Corner. Titan.
(212) 719-3830 was originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(212) 490-9857. Park Avenue @ E. 38th St., NW Corner. Verizon.
(212) 490-9857 was originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(212) 246-9617. Verizon. 57th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, South End
(212) 246-9617 was originally listed at the Payphone Project.

(212) 246-8648. Columbus Circle Subway Station. Verizon.

(212) 246-8369. Columbus Circle Subway Station. PTS.
The original listing of 212-246-8369 at the Payphone Project showed this subway payphone as being at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn. That information reflected the location of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's administrative offices. The MTA no longer occupies that building. Calls made from this PTS payphone today would likely show up with fake caller ID, showing the Las Vegas telephone number 702-992-9550.

(212) 997-0337. Titan Payphone. 6th Avenue

(212) 245-9715. 57th Street N/Q/R Station. July, 2012. PTS
212-245-9715 is listed at the Payphone Project.

(718) 429-9252. Queens Boulevard & 56th Avenue. Verizon.

(718) 779-0474. Queens Boulevard @ Woodhaven Boulevard. TCC Teleplex.

Woodhaven Boulevard Subway Station. Forgot to get the number. Verizon.

(718) 595-1094. Queens Center Mall, Lower Level. This Payphone/TTY is no longer present.

(718) 699-4691. Queens Center Mall. This Payphone is no longer present.

(212) 246-9599. 57th Street/7th Avenue N/Q/R Station, North End.