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The New York Times reports:

 “You have to lament what’s become of the pay phone. For decades, it was a trusted friend to New Yorkers in a pinch, but in this cellphone and BlackBerry era it is viewed by most as a quarter-sucking fossil. And that makes Dennis Novick, who is wildly excited about pay phones, something of an anomaly.”

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