The Payphone Project > Pictures of Payphones

This British-style Red Phone Box in Midtown Manhattan is a phone booth without a phone. It is evidently reserved for use by the security team at 437 Madison Avenue, though I have never noticed this booth being put to anything more than decorative use. As of December, 2013, there are four remaining outdoor, free-standing, fully functioning phone booths in Manhattan. One's definition of "Phone Booth" might extend to include this artistic creation on Third Avenue. A lonely old phone booth can still be seen on Yankee Pier, off of Governors Island, but fully-functioning outdoor phone booths are quite rare. Indoor phone booths are still pretty common in New York City, though most of them no longer have working payphones. The bright red British phone box in this picture does not count as a phone booth because it does not have a phone.

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