links – The Payphone Project

LinkNYC Arrives in Queens at IPANY’s Former Stomping Ground.

the payphone project — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:12:48 +0000

If their quantity Third Avenue is any indication we should expect to see hundreds of Links up and down Queens Boulevard, as far as they eye can squint.

Another Classy LinkNYC Customer

the payphone project — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:15:17 +0000

With about 300 of an expected 10,000 units installed and activated the rollout of LinkNYC is starting to feel like a slow-moving plague of technological "Smart City" pollution.

The Missing Links: What Will They Really Look Like?

the payphone project — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:00:27 +0000

Let me be the first to say it: Citybridge's Link devices look pretty flippin' ugly. Thousands of these hulkish, intrusive slabs of advertising, should they actually invade city streets in such quantities as promised, would make today's payphone enclosures look inconspicuous and even charming by comparison.

Citybridge Rising: The Missing Links

the payphone project — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:20:44 +0000

Citybridge, the consortium of telecom and advertising companies awarded a monopoly franchise to replace New York City’s outdoor public pay telephones with multipurpose “Links”, has taken its first concrete steps in establishing itself as king of the curbside payphone. One by one the company has placed Citybridge-branded informational placards on hundreds, perhaps thousands of payphones…