One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of Manhattan's classic American Airlight style phone…
An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to a fresh appearance of that defunct…
I spotted something rare. A public pay telephone repairman at work, keeping New York City's payphones safe and sanitary.
People still use payphones. I spotted this woman talking on a Telebeam payphone today. Telebeam's continued existence, however, may be…
With about 300 of an expected 10,000 units installed and activated the rollout of LinkNYC is starting to feel like…
When Links first appeared I was happy to give them half a chance on æsthetic merit. But their numbers greedily…
If this kind of infrastructure interests you then feast your eyes on the underlying foundation of a LinkNYC device. Links…
This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this payphone are gone.
I have used CityBridge’s Link devices a number of times since they went into active service a few weeks ago.…
This clamshell payphone at the corner of Broadway and St. James Place in Elmhurst, Queens, still bears signage from when…
This mysteriously shrouded rectangle is all we get to see for now of the first Links, the free WiFi hotspots…
Let me be the first to say it: Citybridge's Link devices look pretty flippin' ugly. Thousands of these hulkish, intrusive…
Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue wooden box) used to exist nearby…
Citybridge, the consortium of telecom and advertising companies awarded a monopoly franchise to replace New York City's outdoor public pay…