Listen in as a payphone call goes horribly wrong, blasting The Howler into a call which should have been free…
I spotted this woman dropping 50¢ into an NYC subway payphone yesterday. It's true: People still use payphones!
The somewhat harsh timbre of the single string lute seems to suit the scratchy, monochrome texture of the landline telephone.
Any endeavor which depends on the reliability of the public telephone is imperiled from the start. I was glad to…
There are only two payphones left on the upper level of the Grand Central subway station. Neither one works.
This one starts out a little rough but ends up being among the best quality recordings I've gotten of musicians…
Whenever I hear a subway busker or street musician performing I look for the nearest payphone. If one is nearby,…
Listen to an electric guitarist at the Times Square subway station, recorded using a nearby payphone.
This before-and-after sequence spans 9½ years, and shows a payphone at the 36th Avenue/Washington Avenue subway station in Astoria. The…