Payphones Past

Verizon

Payphone At The End Of The R, Starring 1-800-MAX-SAVE

An abandoned Verizon payphone in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, leads to a somewhat interesting tale of the alleged theft of a…

7 years ago

Abandoned Phone Booth, Seaview Motel in Pennsville, NJ.

An anonymous photographer contributed this artsy black and white photo of an abandoned Verizon-branded phone booth found at the Seaview…

8 years ago

Phone Booths at the Met Breuer Museum

My first thought on hearing that the Met Breuer was taking over the old Whitney building was, naturally enough, “What…

9 years ago

Payphones at The Oyster Bar Restaurant, Grand Central Terminal

It seemed strange to find a couple of payphones inside the bathrooms of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at Grand Central…

9 years ago

Donald Trump: Fix Your Payphone

This payphone was at the center of what was (to me, at least) a very amusing incident which occurred during…

9 years ago

Call (425) 347-9966, the Phone Booth in the World’s Biggest Building

Deep within the bowels of the world largest building (the Boeing Everett Factory in Washington) one finds a surprise: An…

10 years ago

Abandoned Verizon Payphones at 77 Water Street

Phones like this stay in place for years, not even attracting the interest of thieves. An abandoned Verizon payphone (should…

10 years ago

Titan to be King of Payphones in New York City

What is the future of the neighborhood payphone, unadorned by advertising, its survival depending entirely on paid usage?

15 years ago

Shattered and Dangling: A Verizon Payphone, October 2009

I spotted this Verizon payphone about a month ago, and was surprised to see that it is still busted up,…

16 years ago

Verizon to end its Airfone service

The Airfone, owned by Verizon, is essentially an extremely expensive in-flight payphone. I remember using one of these phones to…

19 years ago