Payphones Past

Abandoned

Found a Rotary-Dial Payphone From When All of NYC Was Still (212)

I got over my fear of being ridiculed for asking about such things. I staked out an old rotary dial…

6 years ago

The Slow Demise of the Last Payphone at Grand Central

A look back, in pictures and paean, at the last payphone in Grand Central subway station.

6 years ago

Payphone at Christina’s Restaurant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Just a couple of pictures of another abandoned Verizon payphone. This one's on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn.

6 years ago

Abandoned Payphone Beautification on Fresh Pond Road

This abandoned payphone enclosure got some beauty treatment from unknown parties. And also, an old telephone exchange name phone number…

6 years ago

A Cristol-Tel Payphone at the Silver Star Restaurant

According to Payphone Project data there used to be 2 payphones at this Manhattan restaurant. One phone remains, in non-working…

6 years ago

Abandoned Payphone Across From Port Authority Bus Terminal

This abandoned payphone by the Port Authority Terminal was, by my analysis, owned and operated either by S.A.C. Vending, a…

7 years ago

Faded and Fried in Potter County, Pennsylvania

Angela Lutz, who follows the Payphone Project Facebook page, shared these photos of a miserable looking specimen of payphone from…

8 years ago

Grove, Oklahoma. Phone Booth Sans Payphone. Photo by Brien Engel.

It's a photo from Brien Engel of an abandoned phone booth in Grove, Oklahoma. Hello?

8 years ago

Abandoned Phone Booth, Seaview Motel in Pennsville, NJ.

An anonymous photographer contributed this artsy black and white photo of an abandoned Verizon-branded phone booth found at the Seaview…

8 years ago

Holbrook, Arizona: A Ghostly Truck Stop Payphone Room

Mike Melchiors sends us an eerie if not profound photo of an abandoned payphone room at a truck stop in…

8 years ago

Abandoned NYTEL Payphones. Woodside, Queens.

This pair of abandoned payphones outside a Woodside car wash were owned by NYTEL, a company that made most of…

9 years ago

Trump Tower Payphone: Still No Dial Tone

The only payphone at the Trump Tower still does not work. Will it ever? Prrrrobably not.

9 years ago

Phone Booths at the Met Breuer Museum

My first thought on hearing that the Met Breuer was taking over the old Whitney building was, naturally enough, “What…

9 years ago

What Was “Tracekit”?

An abandoned payphone in Queens bears an interesting notice which claims that the phone is marked with something called "Tracekit",…

9 years ago

Payphones at The Oyster Bar Restaurant, Grand Central Terminal

It seemed strange to find a couple of payphones inside the bathrooms of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at Grand Central…

9 years ago

Stormdog @ Flickr: Payphone of East Timor. March, 2016.

East Timor payphone -- what's left of it, that is -- by Flickr photographer Stormdog. Photo from March, 2016.

9 years ago

Donald Trump: Fix Your Payphone

This payphone was at the center of what was (to me, at least) a very amusing incident which occurred during…

9 years ago

Another Abandoned Telestone Payphone

A decrepit old payphone stands miserably outside the Crown Motor Inn, an hourly rates motel on Queens Boulevard in Woodside,…

10 years ago

Abandoned Verizon Payphones at 77 Water Street

Phones like this stay in place for years, not even attracting the interest of thieves. An abandoned Verizon payphone (should…

10 years ago

Underdog Communications: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other unreadable text matter fine print from a defunct payphone once owned by Underdog Communications .

12 years ago

Reliatel International Inc.: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other text matter from a Reliatel International Inc. pay telephone. Reliatel is now defunct.

12 years ago

Paca-Tel Payphones: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other hard-to-read minutiæ found on a Paca-Tel payphone.

12 years ago

Another Abandoned PTS Payphone

Most of New York City's subway stations are littered with useless hulks of payphones abandoned by Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS).…

12 years ago

Abandoned Phone Box: Aldershot, Hampshire, England

This phone box was obviously put in place back when the surrounding houses were built back in the 1930's to…

12 years ago

Abandoned Payphone. Greenpoint Avenue, Queens.

The old urban legend about hypodermic needles being stuck inside coin return slots got a new lease on life when…

13 years ago

The Abandoned Yellow Payphone at the Abandoned Yellow Building

Sometimes, when I look payphones that have been abandoned or disemboweled, I see a mouth, and eyes, as if something…

14 years ago

Abandoned Payphones

A simple request to independent payphone service providers, even though most of you have probably skipped town by now: Clean…

14 years ago

Payphone Gone: 37th Avenue @ 22nd Street, Queens

Only the mount pedestal remains of a payphone that once stood at 37th Avenue and 22nd Street in Long Island…

15 years ago