A Rockefeller Center Payphone User Revisited
A strange and what seemed at first to be an eerie coincidence occurred on Twitter the other night. Read More »
Free Wi-Fi Payphone? More Like a Portal To Nowhere.
Phantom vestiges of a 2012 program to equip NYC's payphones with free WiFi still linger on city streets. Read More »
Christmas Music Heard Through a Steinway Street Payphone
I fed $3.75 into a Steinway Street payphone to record the Christmas music played over loudspeakers on that venue. Some of it was actually audible. Read More »
Those new outdoor phone booths are so doggone handy …
The advertisement below appeared in the August 6, 1957, edition the Panama City News-Herald. It appeared in numerous publications nationwide. Cutesy ads like this promoted the expansion of Bell telephone booths throughout the 1950s. doggone… “It’s a dog’s life, all right. Waiting while she talks. Can’t blame her much, though. Those new outdoor phone booths […] Read More »
Putting the “UG” in UGLY. LinkNYC Begins its Raid of Woodside, Queens.
Uglyass LinkNYC Monoliths Are Uglifying the Already Non-Beautiful Stretch of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens. Read More »
Vandals To All Who Care: “We Need More Pay Phones”
There is nothing funny about a missing person poster. But I had to laugh when I saw that someone used one such sign to share their thoughts on a matter near and dear to me, and perhaps to readers of this web site. Read More »
NBC’s I-Team on LinkNYC: Broken Promises
NBC New York's I-Team claims Brooklyn is a "digital desert." Who knew? Journalism at its finest... not. Read More »
Is LinkNYC Coming to Times Square?
The sudden absence of payphones at Times Square suggests that Links are coming. Does the advertising-engulfed Times Square need this? Does anybody? Read More »
CityBridge’s LinkNYC Program Takes a Blow
As a Telebeam lawsuit comes back to haunt CityBridge it may behoove regulators to consider the wisdom of granting a monopoly franchise to a company hawking a "BETA" product. Read More »
LinkNYC Customer Urinating on the Street
I and other Starbucks customers watched yesterday as a LinkNYC customer urinated onto the street. Scenes like this have come to be expected wherever Links are found. Nevertheless CityBridge is full steam ahead in placing its "payphone of the future" every 50 feet. Read More »
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 sense of humor. Read More »
An Amazing New York City Phone Booth Photo
The date was February 4, 1974. Why was fashion designer Calvin Klein standing in a New York City phone booth with $100,000 in cash? Read More »
Abandoned NYTEL Payphones. Woodside, Queens.
This pair of abandoned payphones outside a Woodside car wash were owned by NYTEL, a company that made most of its money from pre-paid calling cards. Read More »
LinkNYC Arrives in Queens at IPANY’s Former Stomping Ground.
If their quantity Third Avenue is any indication we should expect to see hundreds of Links up and down Queens Boulevard, as far as they eye can squint. Read More »
Talking on the Telebeam — But For How Much Longer?
People still use payphones. I spotted this woman talking on a Telebeam payphone today. Telebeam's continued existence, however, may be short-lived, as the CityBridge monopoly inches closer to putting the company out of business. Read More »
Penn Station Musician Heard Through a Nearby Payphone
Any endeavor which depends on the reliability of the public telephone is imperiled from the start. I was glad to catch at least this one segment today, from a musician who is unnamed because no identifying information was to be seen at his performance space. Read More »
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Payphone Project on Twitter
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A Rockefeller Center Payphone User Revisited news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/12/a… https://t.co/JPPOqXULht 
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Action Shot. Grand Central Terminal Payphone user. https://t.co/MW90PYOBuc
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This Titan/CityBridge "FREE WiFi" payphone is a portal to nowhere. news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/12/f… via @payphonenews https://t.co/EzYIsxKwu1
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Collecting quarters from this phone booth got to be more trouble than it was worth. - westplainsdailyquill.net/news/state_new… https://t.co/t7mo1CnObg
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3 Died: "passers-by went to the Widdale box to summon emergency medical help but the telephone was not working" northyorkshireadvertiser.co.uk/news/14958154.…
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Australian taxpayers pay up to $50,000 per year for individual payphones. sbs.com.au/news/article/2… https://t.co/QTxWbLFXm0
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What happens when you send a text message to a landline telephone? cio.com/article/314615… via @CIOonline
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Telepoem Booth calling on Centre County, PA, poets for submissions centredaily.com/living/article… https://t.co/RjrlikWZQq
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End of the payphone - another nail in the coffin for rural communities? yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/end-of-th…
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Those new outdoor phone booths are so doggone handy ... (1957) news.payphone-project.com/news/2016/11/n… via @payphonenews https://t.co/niswWJ7PFE
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LinkNYC: Wi-Fi kiosks delayed in city's poorer boroughs statescoop.com/linknyc-wi-fi-… #LinkNYC https://t.co/Rw7I14Du44
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What is happening to Ireland’s old phone boxes? irishtimes.com/news/social-af… via @IrishTimes https://t.co/Je020jqnfL
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Talking on the Payphone. As we do. https://t.co/BLU6pBmZin
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Verizon buys LQD Wi-Fi: More "payphones of the future" may be coming. bit.ly/2f2qVa0
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NYC slow in adding #LinkNYC Wi-FI kiosks outside of Manhattan nydn.us/2fSQMD8
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Coney Island Karaoke, Heard Through a Payphone
