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Abandoned Verizon Payphone
Verizon payphone near a cemetery. Like everything else here, the line is dead.
Astoria
Lafayette Street
4th Avenue
L.I.C.
SKUZZ Payphone
Midtown
Midtown
Whitney Avenue and Broadway, Elmhurst, Queens
42nd St/9th Ave. Van Wagner Kiosk Advertising Payphones.
A payphone rots as a cell-phone user strolls past. 42nd Street.
Payphone Gone. 42nd Street.
(212) 502-5957, (212) 502-5956. 42nd St/9th Ave.
(212) 730-9173, (212) 730-9186. Payphone. Times Square Subway.
(212) 840-8046, (212) 840-8082. Payphones. Times Square Subway.
(212) 840-8067, (212) 840-8758. Payphone. Times Square Subway.
(212) 730-9153, (212) 221-8804, (212) 730-9193. Payphone. Times Square Subway.
(212) 997-7943. 42nd Street/6th Avenue, B/D/F/M Subway.
Janusian payphones. (212) 997-8834, (212) 997-5097. 42nd St/6th Ave B/D/F/M Subway.
Payphone in the distance. (212) 997-8805. 42nd St/6th Ave B/D/F/M Subway.
(718) 729-9419. 42-02 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City.
There used to be 4 Verizon payphones here. Now there is only one PTS payphone. Whoever removed the old payphones may not have done the most elegant job, but I appreciate the ruggedness of the exposed cinder block wall behind the paint. The increasingly old-fashioned wire of the land line is also a beautiful sight. As seen in the next picture, the future for this payphone is not promising. The owners of the Pathmark store in which this payphone resides announced its closing date of August 25, 2012.
(718) 729-9419. 42-02 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City.
This old payphone at the soon-to-be-closed Pathmark on Northern Boulevard still has vestiges of the old Bell Atlantic logo on its side.
(718) 278-8344. M/R Subway Station. Northern Boulevard & Broadway.
(718) 278-9214. 5115 Broadway, Jackson Heights, 11377
Taking notes.
He has trouble seeing the touch-tone number pad.
Hipsters with laptops still use payphones.
I wish I had my better photo gear on me when I spotted this fellow using a payphone with his laptop in front of him. At first I thought this seemed incongruous. I thought he was checking his e-mail from a payphone, which is still not possible as far as I know. I soon deduced that this dude had probably lost his cell phone, kept his phone book on his laptop, and used the laptop as his phone book to look up some numbers and make some calls.
Port Authority Bus Terminal. Summer, 2012.
Times Square Subway Station. Summer, 2012.
6th Avenue and 58th Street.
Port Authority Bus Terminal. Summer, 2012.
Steinway Street, Astoria
While helping a reporter cover the arrival of Free Wi-Fi-enabled payphones in New York I spotted this woman using one of the payphones, not the Wi-Fi.
Abandoned Payphone at National Wholesale Liquidators, Long Island City
National Wholesale Liquidators is near Northern Boulevard at 35-00 48th Street, Long Island City.!["Please Be Brief." Old Wood Phone Booth. Astoria, Queens. Summer, 2012.](../../../_data/i/galleries/North_America/United_States/New_York/New_York_City/DSCN7875-me.JPG ""Please Be Brief." Old Wood Phone Booth. Astoria, Queens. Summer, 2012. (2915 visits) This old wood phone booth housed a fully-functional rotary dial payphone until early 2009. Today it ...")
"Please Be Brief." Old Wood Phone Booth. Astoria, Queens. Summer, 2012.
This old wood phone booth housed a fully-functional rotary dial payphone until early 2009. Today it is used for cell-phone calls and as a storage closet. The old booth still receives regular deliveries of phone books.
The Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant is at 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Abandoned payphone at Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant. 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Abandoned payphone at Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant. 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Abandoned payphone at Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant. 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Abandoned payphone at Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant. 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Abandoned payphone at Two Ways Chinese & Japanese Restaurant. 59-02 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
(718) 326-7293. Grand Avenue and Remsen Place. Maspeth. Verizon.
(718) 821-8382. Fresh Pond Road and Eliot Avenue. Maspeth. Verizon.
(718) 417-1083. 60-67 Fresh Pond Road. Maspeth, NY 11378. TCC Teleplex.
The placard on this payphone identified its phone number as (308) 762-9906. Lies! The 308 area code is from Alliance, Nebraska - home of Carhenge. This payphone was evidently relocated from Alliance to Maspeth, Queens, New York.
(718) 894-8690. 64th Street and Flushing Avenue. Maspeth. BAS Communications.
Flushing Avenue near 64th Street. Maspeth.
(718) 728-9370. Hamilton Place, Jay Avenue, 65th Place. Maspeth. Verizon.
Neighborhood payphone. This one will be gone soon. PTS would never pick up a payphone like this. I am amazed this payphone is still here. July, 2012.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
(212) 582-6725. 23 West 56th St. Comet Communications.
Talking on the Titan. West 58th Street near 6th Avenue
Talking on the Titan. 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
Broadway in Astoria. Titan Payphone. March, 2011.
Broadway in Astoria. July, 2012
I think this TCC Teleplex Internet Kiosk was on 3rd Avenue in the 50s.
(212) 246-9599. 57th Street/7th Avenue N/Q/R Station, North End.
GEO Telecom calling card call, 5th Avenue
These folks are trying to make a call from a Titan payphone at 5th Avenue and 43rd Street using what appears to be a GEO Telecom prepaid calling card.
6th Avenue. Woman using a Titan payphone, paying with a credit card. July, 2012.
(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.
(212) 246-9617. Verizon. 57th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, South End
(212) 246-9617 was originally listed at the Payphone Project.
(212) 997-0337. Titan Payphone. 6th Avenue
(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) 245-9715. 57th Street N/Q/R Station. July, 2012. PTS
212-245-9715 is listed at the Payphone Project.
Columbus Circle. Titan
6th Avenue, Rockefeller Center. Verizon.
(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) 221-9354. 6th Avenue @40th Street
6th Avenue
Park Avenue South
Park Avenue South & East 28th Street., NE Corner,
Park Avenue South
77 Park Avenue South
(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.
(646) 487-2325. 2nd Ave & 41st St, SE Corner. Coastal Communications Payphones.
(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.
(718) 278-4275. 36th Avenue, N/Q Station. Astoria, Queens.
Rockefeller Center.
(212) 502-5445. Non-working Verizon Payphone at Macy's Herald Square, 7th Level, Broadway Building.
(212) 947-3268. Non-working Verizon Payphone at Macy's Herald Square, 4th Level, Broadway Building.
(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.
(646) 674-0864. PTS Payphone. 34th Street 1/2/3 Subway Station.
(212) 502-5755. PTS Payphone. 34th Street 1/2/3 Subway Station.
Penn Station's Hall of Non-Working Payphones
This astonishing quantity of public pay telephones occupies a prime chunk of real estate at New York City's Penn Station. It gleams like a beacon from the past when central transit hubs like this had abundant public telephones for the harried traveler who needed to reach someone upon arriving in or departing from New York. This room of payphones almost looks like some kind of museum but it is, in fact, supposed to be a functioning suite of payphones for the public to use. It is not a payphone museum (yet). This room is a payphone ghetto, a telephonic slum, a twilight zone for communications. Maybe some day it will be declared a museum but for now it's just another example of false hope for anyone whose only option for making a phone call is a public pay telephone.
Non-Working Penn Station Payphones
None of these Penn Station payphones worked when I tried them in late June, 2012. The numbers shown on the phones are: (212) 239-4038, (212) 239-8153, (212) 239-83?? (probably -8368), (212) 239-1242, (212) 239-4407, (212) 239-4688, and (212) 239-1158. Each number links to the Payphone Project page at which these numbers were originally listed. These payphones are all owned by Pacific Telemanagement Services (PCS). If any of these payphones worked they would probably not cause ordinary caller ID to display any of the above-listed phone numbers. The number shown would probably be (702) 992-9550.
Penn Station Payphone Carousel
Penn Station Payphones
One of these Penn Station payphones worked when I tried them in late June, 2012. It was the second one from the left. The numbers shown on the phones are: (212) 239-3428, (212) 239-4469 L (?), (212) 239-8642, and (212) 239-0384. Each number links to the Payphone Project page at which these numbers were originally listed. Depite the lingering presence of Verizon logos these payphones are all owned by Pacific Telemanagement Services (PCS). If any of these payphones happens to work then it would probably not cause ordinary caller ID to display any of the above-listed phone numbers. The number shown would probably be (702) 992-9550.
Penn Station LIRR Payphones
Penn Station LIRR Payphones
Penn Station Payphone
Penn Station LIRR Payphones
