When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for…
I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook group called Astoria Beat.
One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of Manhattan's classic American Airlight style phone…
Photo is from November 25, 1985, by Jorge Vasconcelos. Please take a tour of his Flickr stream.
Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.
This image appears on several web sites, none of which give credit to the photographer. Can anybody identify whose picture…
A follower of the Payphone Project’s Facebook page wrote to ask a question I don’t think I’ve heard in a…
A New Yorker using a Titan-branded payphone under the RFK/Triborough Bridge.
It looked to me as if someone had been hunting for payphone handsets instead of eggs on this past Easter…
Seen on Yankee Pier off the east side of Governors Island is, for whatever the distinction might be worth, probably…
Ron Dunn, a new follower of the Payphone Project Facebook Page, yesterday offered up this Pulitzer-worthy shot of a New…
The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. Reviews all seem…
People still use payphones. I spotted this woman talking on a Telebeam payphone today. Telebeam's continued existence, however, may be…
Any endeavor which depends on the reliability of the public telephone is imperiled from the start. I was glad to…
This Citybridge payphone suffered a fatal blow last week. Today all traces of this payphone are gone.
It's a photo of a man on Third Avenue in Manhattan using a landline payphone. It's not as rare a…
"Hang Up", the New York City payphone documentary to which I contributed, is now viewable on the public Internet for the…
A charming photo from the NYC nostalgia blog in which a 1980s payphone user partly obscures a sign for the…
Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue wooden box) used to exist nearby…
This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance of each other using New York…
One of the weird vagaries lingering among NYC's numerous abandoned phone booth locations is the fact that telephone directories still…
The old phone booth on Yankee Pier is one of the last outdoor, free-standing phone booths in New York City.…
Something existentially useless about a map showing locations of non-working payphones inspired me to create just such a map. It's…
I thought sure this old wood booth would have been removed since I last saw it about 2 years ago.
The Empire State Building has no public telephones.
This is one of my favorite things in New York City. There is the Unisphere. I love that thing. I…
I did not have much time to get these photos, and on account of the time-constraints I found myself nearly…
This pagoda-topped payphone in Chinatown reminded me of a series of pictures sent to The Payphone Project many years ago.…