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Latest Articles Tagged "payphones"

News

The last public payphone in NYC has been removed from Midtown

The payphone is headed to the Museum of the City of New York as part of a new exhibit about pre-digital life in NYC.

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Ben Yakas

News

Most Of The Last Remaining Pay Phones In NYC Will Be Ripped Out

The DoITT is starting with the pay phones in Hell's Kitchen this month, and will likely remove all remaining pay phones they operate in the city soon after.

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Jen Carlson

Arts & Entertainment

Video: This 14-Minute Doc Explores Disappearing Payphones In NYC

Documenting the last days of the payphone era.

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Jen Carlson

Arts & Entertainment

Video: New Yorkers Paying Other New Yorkers To Use A Payphone

Call someone you love... from a payphone!

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Jen Carlson

Arts & Entertainment

Photos: Manhattan's Secret Payphone Graveyard

If you're wondering what happens to some of those disappearing payphones, look no further than upper Manhattan.

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Ben Yakas

Arts & Entertainment

These 5,000 Payphones Will Transport You Back To NYC In 1993

Every Manhattan payphone, from Inwood to the Financial District, has been turned into a geo-located time capsule from 1993.

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Jen Carlson

News

Is This What NYC's Future Payphones Could Look Like?

The payphone is dead, long live the payphone! Last night Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners in the city's Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge.

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Jen Carlson

News

What Should The City Do With 11,000 Payphones?

The city wants your help re-imagining our payphones. Should payphones offer USB charging? Skype? Cupcakes?

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Garth Johnston

News

Touchscreen Payphones Are Coming To New York City!

Payphones, those relics of a lost age of personal freedom and superhero quick changes, are about to get an upgrade.

By

Garth Johnston

Arts & Entertainment

Should Payphones Be Free?

The recently-engaged street artist Posterchild has an idea for the city's

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Jen Carlson

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