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September, 2008
I first noticed this abandoned payphone on Northern Boulevard in September, 2008, when this picture was taken. The next picture shows that in December, 2011, this empty hull of a payphone still lurked outside an abandoned building that once housed a check cashing business. Look for these abandoned payphone pictures at Weburbanist.com.
The Neon Lights Stay on 24 Hours a Day at the Abandoned Building
The Neon Lights Stay on 24 Hours a Day at the Abandoned Building
CHEC? The Neon Lights Stay on 24 Hours a Day at the Abandoned Building
The Neon Lights Stay on 24 Hours a Day at the Abandoned Building
The Neon Lights Stay on 24 Hours a Day at the Abandoned Building
EDT Sportline Once Occupied This Space
Phone Number of the Previous Company That Occupied This Space
For Rent
I Wanna Rent This Place. Wait... What's the Phone Number?
Payphone Gone?
Across the street I spotted this metal post in the sidewalk. Posts and spikes like this often provide evidence that a payphone used to be present. Once you start looking for these stumps it becomes evident that payphones genuinely used to be everywhere, even in vacant lots and alleyways between buildings.
Open 24 Hours
Open 24 Hours
The gashes in this awning reveal the name of another business that once occupied this space.
Voice Stream Omnipoint
Open 24 hours? Not likely.![The awning bears only empty letters where the words "CHECK CASHING" used to be.](../../_data/i/galleries/North_America/United_States/New_York/New_York_City/Abandoned_Payphone_Abandoned_Building/DSC07634-me.jpg "The awning bears only empty letters where the words "CHECK CASHING" used to be. (3067 visits)")
The awning bears only empty letters where the words "CHECK CASHING" used to be.
Landlord has legal possession of these premises.
Mop
The M&Ms in this vending machine have nearly disintegrated into dirt.
Graffiti Wall on the Abandoned Yellow Building
Graffiti Wall on the Abandoned Yellow Building
Graffiti Wall on the Abandoned Yellow Building
Graffiti Wall on the Abandoned Yellow Building
Graffiti Wall on the Abandoned Yellow Building
Open 24 Hours?
The neon sign is lit, 24 hours a day, but the building is abandoned.
The Abandoned Yellow Payphone at the Abandoned Yellow Building. December, 2011.
The Silent Scream of the Disemboweled Payphone
Sometimes, when I look payphones that have been abandoned or disemboweled, I see a mouth, and eyes, and a tear-drop on the face's right cheek. as if something perpetually screams in dismay at the removal of the public telephone which once hid its face.
The Abandoned Yellow Payphone at the Abandoned Yellow Building, Then and Now.
In September, 2008, I took a photo of this abandoned payphone. In December 2011 I put a copy of that photo inside the defunct payphone's empty hull. When I returned a few days later the photo was gone. It probably blew away, but I like to imagine that someone found the photo and saved it as a souvenir.
December, 2011.
This abandoned payphone looks pretty much the same in this photo as it did in 2008 (see previous photo). Still abandoned, still standing in idle uselessness. The wall behind it is now marred by considerably more graffiti. The word "M9O" that used to be the only graffiti on this wall is still present.
