Comments on: The Last Working Payphone in Central Park is No More https://www.payphone-project.com/the-last-working-payphone-in-central-park-is-no-more.html Sat, 11 Jun 2022 18:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/the-last-working-payphone-in-central-park-is-no-more.html#comment-50477 Sat, 11 Jun 2022 18:02:28 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=10525#comment-50477 In reply to Rich Glaser.

The phones I’d encountered around Central Park were all set to let the coins go straight through to the coin return. So nobody lost any coin. But not all dead phones are like that. They just take your money and keep it until they get so full you can’t stuff one more coin into it.

]]> By: Rich Glaser https://www.payphone-project.com/the-last-working-payphone-in-central-park-is-no-more.html#comment-50468 Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:56:40 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=10525#comment-50468 If any of the pay phones still collect coins to make calls who is collecting the profits? Or are used so infrequently that the phones don’t ever fill up?

]]> By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/the-last-working-payphone-in-central-park-is-no-more.html#comment-25799 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 22:07:16 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=10525#comment-25799 In reply to Name.

Yeah, I should maybe not be so pessimistic.
A couple of PTS phones at Queensboro Plaza were dead for about a year before coming back alive.
Now they’re gone altogether, though.

]]> By: Name https://www.payphone-project.com/the-last-working-payphone-in-central-park-is-no-more.html#comment-25798 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 22:01:39 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=10525#comment-25798 It can possibly come back. A payphone at a mechanic shop near me went dead for a year and a half, then yanked out. 4 months after it was yanked out, a fresh new aluminum payphone took the spot where the old phone used to be. Something similar also happened to a bus stop payphone near me. An old dirty PTS phone with a Bell Atlantic booth went dead for about 5 months, then replaced with a new blue pedestal with a polished clean phone. There could possibly be hope for this phone. It either just takes a heck of a long time for the company to do something about it or someone has to call the phone co to repair it.

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