Payphones Past

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Corner Office Payphone With a Window View. 718-476-8903

Originally listed at 718-476-8903, this payphone has dial tone at the 90th Street/Elmhurst Avenue 7 train station. I got bumped…

6 years ago

This Week’s LinkNYC Observations

Having last written an account of trying to understand LinkNYC’s new bus arrival time feature I now suspect it has…

7 years ago

Street Mule — And The Howler — Heard Through a Times Square Payphone

Listen in as a payphone call goes horribly wrong, blasting The Howler into a call which should have been free…

8 years ago

Action Shot: Payphone Customer at the Queens 74th St./Broadway Station

I spotted this woman dropping 50¢ into an NYC subway payphone yesterday. It's true: People still use payphones!

8 years ago

Penn Station Musician Heard Through a Nearby Payphone

Any endeavor which depends on the reliability of the public telephone is imperiled from the start. I was glad to…

9 years ago

Grand Central Subway Station – No Working Payphones

There are only two payphones left on the upper level of the Grand Central subway station. Neither one works.

9 years ago

Grupo Wayne. Music of the Andes. NYC Subway Buskers Heard Through a Nearby Payphone.

This one starts out a little rough but ends up being among the best quality recordings I've gotten of musicians…

9 years ago

The Saw Lady Heard Through a Payphone

The Payphone Project caught up with Natalia Paruz, the New York City street musician known as The Saw Lady, as…

10 years ago

Electric Guitarist at Times Square, Heard Through a Payphone. December, 2014.

Listen to an electric guitarist at the Times Square subway station, recorded using a nearby payphone.

11 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