Looks like someone at the MTA got their knickers in a twist over the everlasting payphone carcasses that litter New York’s subway stations. Gone as of recently are the last two phones from 6th Avenue/Bryant Park, one of which had dial tone until a few weeks before its disappearance. Also goinggoinggone are, as seen in this video, what were 10 or so deadphones from the Times Square/Port Authority Bus Terminal subway complex. They’re not all gone yet but I suspect they will be soon enough.

In this video had some fun with a lei and a flower left behind by Pride March revelers.

But my first order of business this day was CityBridge’s West End Avenue payphones, which have reached a new level of decay. Last week the one at 101st Street actually let you make a phone call by using a credit card. That phone now has no dial tone.

On the upside the erstwhile coin-gobbling phone at 90th Street seems to have lost its appetite, but that could be just another symptom of its telephonic decay.

See my previous video about the West End Avenue phone booths here: https://youtu.be/zfKyREpw6q4 This is probably my last pass at the West End Avenue booths for the foreseeable future. I do not expect them ever to work again, not even for 911.