Manhattan’s Last Outdoor Phone Booths: What’s The Deal?
One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of…
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StreetMessages.com: The Domain Name That Got Away
An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to…
Rare Sighting: Payphone Repairman
I spotted something rare. A public pay telephone repairman at work, keeping New York…
Talking on the Telebeam — But For How Much Longer?
People still use payphones. I spotted this woman talking on a Telebeam payphone today.…
Another Classy LinkNYC Customer
With about 300 of an expected 10,000 units installed and activated the rollout of…
LinkNYC Revisited, and Reconsidered
When Links first appeared I was happy to give them half a chance on…
LinkNYC’s GSOD, and the Infrastructure Underneath.
If this kind of infrastructure interests you then feast your eyes on the underlying…
Payphone Down. Broadway in Astoria.
This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this…
Link.NYC’s Free Phone Calls: You Get What You Pay For
I have used CityBridge’s Link devices a number of times since they went into…
718-271-9306. Broadway & St. James Avenue. Elmhurst, Queens.
This clamshell payphone at the corner of Broadway and St. James Place in Elmhurst,…
Shroud of a Link: Citybridge Meets Its Deadline. Sort Of.
This mysteriously shrouded rectangle is all we get to see for now of the…
The Missing Links: What Will They Really Look Like?
Let me be the first to say it: Citybridge's Link devices look pretty flippin'…
61st St. and Roosevelt Ave. Woodside, Queens 718-429-8216 Van Wagner, LLC. Photo by David Moore.
Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue…
Citybridge Rising: The Missing Links
Citybridge, the consortium of telecom and advertising companies awarded a monopoly franchise to replace…