New Year, Old Payphones
When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I…
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Phone Booths of Astoria, 1960s. Steinway Street Near Broadway.
I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook…
Manhattan’s Last Outdoor Phone Booths: What’s The Deal?
One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of…
Jorge Vasconcelos: 42nd Street Phone Booths, 1985.
Photo is from November 25, 1985, by Jorge Vasconcelos. Please take a tour of…
NYC Phone Booth Roundup
Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.
Who’s the Photographer? Woman Using a Public Phone, NYC, 1970.
This image appears on several web sites, none of which give credit to the…
Is it Possible to Call Payphones in New York City and Talk to Whoever Answers?
A follower of the Payphone Project’s Facebook page wrote to ask a question I…
NYC Payphone Customer
A New Yorker using a Titan-branded payphone under the RFK/Triborough Bridge.
Someone Went Payphone Handset Hunting For Easter
It looked to me as if someone had been hunting for payphone handsets instead…
Lonely Old Phone Booth on Yankee Pier, Governors Island
Seen on Yankee Pier off the east side of Governors Island is, for whatever…
New York City: Payphone in a Toilet
Ron Dunn, a new follower of the Payphone Project Facebook Page, yesterday offered up…
The Payphone Project on “CBS Sunday Morning”
The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning…
Talking on the Telebeam — But For How Much Longer?
People still use payphones. I spotted this woman talking on a Telebeam payphone today.…
Penn Station Musician Heard Through a Nearby Payphone
Any endeavor which depends on the reliability of the public telephone is imperiled from…
Payphone Down. Broadway in Astoria.
This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this…
Payphone User. Third Avenue, NYC. March, 2016.
It's a photo of a man on Third Avenue in Manhattan using a landline…
“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Is Public
“Hang Up”, the New York City payphone documentary to which I contributed, is now…
NYC Nostalgia: 1980s Payphone Caller
A charming photo from the NYC nostalgia blog in which a 1980s payphone user…
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…
1987: New York City Payphone Users
This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance…
Phone Books for Phantom Phone Booths
One of the weird vagaries lingering among NYC's numerous abandoned phone booth locations is…
The Old Phone Booth On Yankee Pier, NYC
The old phone booth on Yankee Pier is one of the last outdoor, free-standing…
Mapping Payphone Complaints
Something existentially useless about a map showing locations of non-working payphones inspired me to…
Wood Phone Booth, NYC. March, 2012.
I thought sure this old wood booth would have been removed since I last…
Outside the Empire State Building: Payphone Gone
The Empire State Building has no public telephones.
NYC Rotary Dial Payphone Revisited
This is one of my favorite things in New York City. There is the…
Manhattan Phone Booths Revisited. May, 2011.
I did not have much time to get these photos, and on account of…
What’s On Top?
This pagoda-topped payphone in Chinatown reminded me of a series of pictures sent to…