Payphones Past

Queens

Abandoned Payphone Beautification on Fresh Pond Road

This abandoned payphone enclosure got some beauty treatment from unknown parties. And also, an old telephone exchange name phone number…

6 years ago

Phone Booths of Astoria, 1960s. Steinway Street Near Broadway.

I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook group called Astoria Beat.

8 years ago

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

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

8 years ago

Live Girls One Dollar. Shoes and Lotions Where the Payphone Used To Be.

A payphone once stood outside this "LIVE GIRLS ONE DOLLAR" shop in Long Island City.

8 years ago

NYC Payphone Customer

A New Yorker using a Titan-branded payphone under the RFK/Triborough Bridge.

8 years ago

StreetMessages.com: The Domain Name That Got Away

An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to a fresh appearance of that defunct…

8 years ago

Abandoned NYTEL Payphones. Woodside, Queens.

This pair of abandoned payphones outside a Woodside car wash were owned by NYTEL, a company that made most of…

9 years ago

What Was “Tracekit”?

An abandoned payphone in Queens bears an interesting notice which claims that the phone is marked with something called "Tracekit",…

9 years ago

718-271-9306. Broadway & St. James Avenue. Elmhurst, Queens.

This clamshell payphone at the corner of Broadway and St. James Place in Elmhurst, Queens, still bears signage from when…

10 years ago

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 wooden box) used to exist nearby…

10 years ago

Another Abandoned Telestone Payphone

A decrepit old payphone stands miserably outside the Crown Motor Inn, an hourly rates motel on Queens Boulevard in Woodside,…

10 years ago

Abandoned Payphone. Greenpoint Avenue, Queens.

The old urban legend about hypodermic needles being stuck inside coin return slots got a new lease on life when…

13 years ago

Cemetery Payphone, R.I.P.

For years this payphone was, like everything around it, dead.

14 years ago

Payphone Gone: 37th Avenue @ 22nd Street, Queens

Only the mount pedestal remains of a payphone that once stood at 37th Avenue and 22nd Street in Long Island…

15 years ago

Carl R. Sohncke Square Payphone

One of the more unusual outdoor payphone enclosures I've seen in these parts is this Verizon payphone at Carl R.…

15 years ago

Payphones at Krash, Now Called Riviera

This picture from March, 2000, shows two payphones outside the Krash Dance Club in Astoria. Krash was a popular gay…

16 years ago