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"Please Be Brief." Old Wood Phone Booth. Astoria, Queens. Summer, 2012.

DSCN7875.JPG Abandoned Payphone at National Wholesale Liquidators, Long Island CityThumbnails1960. Bell Telephone Advertises its New Public Phones.Abandoned Payphone at National Wholesale Liquidators, Long Island CityThumbnails1960. Bell Telephone Advertises its New Public Phones.Abandoned Payphone at National Wholesale Liquidators, Long Island CityThumbnails1960. Bell Telephone Advertises its New Public Phones.

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.