Payphones Past

Times Square

Drumming Up the Links

Call quality on LinkNYC kiosks is generally very bad, and has actually gotten worse in recent months since CityBridge, the…

8 years ago

NYC Phone Booth Roundup

Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.

8 years ago

Phone Booths Return to Times Square

Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi has brought Airlight phone booths to Times Square in Manhattan, bringing a whiff of the 1980s…

8 years ago

A Times Square Payphone’s Unique Memorial

Whoever removed the payphone from this wall at the Times Square subway station seems to have done so with a…

9 years ago

Maestro Moses Josiah on the Musical Saw, Heard Through a Times Square Payphone

Maestro Moses Josiah's Musical Saw sounds mysterious and strange when heard through a public pay telephone. Listen through the crackle…

9 years ago

Christmas Through a Payphone: “O Holy Night”

Whenever I hear a subway busker or street musician performing I look for the nearest payphone. If one is nearby,…

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

Titan’s New Payphone Kiosk Up Close

Under the gloom of yesterday's miserable weather I checked out one of Titan's three new payphone kiosks in Times Square.…

14 years ago

Titan Introduces New Payphone Kiosks to Times Square, New York

I am encouraged by trends which run contrary to the seeming inexorable decline of the public payphone. On the other…

14 years ago

Woody Allen: Manhattan.

A row of payphones, probably at Times Square, seen in the opening minutes of Woody Allen's "Manhattan".  

14 years ago

Times Square Webcam Payphones Revisited

The payphones at Broadway and 46th Street in New York City's Times Square seem to be objects of particular fascination…

14 years ago