van wagner – The Payphone Project

StreetMessages.com: The Domain Name That Got Away

the payphone project — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:43:28 +0000

An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to a fresh appearance of that defunct web site address on an NYC payphone.

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

the payphone project — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:19:48 +0000

This clamshell payphone at the corner of Broadway and St. James Place in Elmhurst, Queens, still bears signage from when it was owned by Van Wagner, the display advertising company that acquired a portion of Verizon’s payphone assets after the telecom company exited the business.Van Wagner was later acquired by Outfront Media, another display advertising company with…

61st St. and Roosevelt Ave. Woodside, Queens 718-429-8216 Van Wagner, LLC. Photo by David Moore.

the payphone project — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:28:45 +0000

Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue wooden box) used to exist nearby in Woodside, at the Carl Sohncke Square. For those interested in such things the Van Wagner company whose name appears on this payphone no longer exists. Van Wagner was acquired by CBS Outdoor Media a…

Vestiges of Payphone Brands Past

the payphone project — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:22 +0000

Last year at about this time I commented on a New York Times blog entry that called out a “Phantom Bell Atlantic Phone Booth” on the Brooklyn Heights esplanade. I remembered this today when I spotted a payphone bearing vestiges of the Bell Atlantic brand — a brand which should have disappeared by 2002: I…