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UNEXPECTED PAYPHONE FIND ON ATLANTIC AVENUE IN QUEENS
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PAYPHONE PROJECT ON THE TODAY SHOW, 1999
I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS tapes
moldering away in a bedroom drawer. The VHS tapes filling my bureau drawers are
almost all unmarked, but after getting the VCR in January I finally, after many
years of intending to, started wading through them. I knew this was…
Payphone News | March 19, 2024
A BRONX AND MARBLE HILL PAYPHONE STRAMBLE [VIDEO]
Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at a couple
of years ago remains, succumbing to forces of entropy and telephonic decay. The
real destination was a random payphone clamshell I spotted on Cyclomedia, the
underrated and basically unknown alternative to Streetview for New York City.
From there it’s…
Daily Payphone | August 10, 2023
UNEXPECTED PAYPHONE FIND ON ATLANTIC AVENUE IN QUEENS
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its
Streetview then-and-now history from 2007, when the phone probably still worked,
through 2022. My video shows what this forgotten Verizon relic looks like today.
This is also a test to see if I can get video to play from the top page, not
just on the story page.
Daily Payphone | June 7, 2023
IOWA PAYPHONE DEFENDS ITSELF. AP STORY FROM OCTOBER, 1984.
Funny story about a payphone call that went horribly, horribly wrong.
Daily Payphone | April 30, 2023
GOOGLE’S BARD SPOUTS BULLSHIT AS FACT WITH RESPECT TO LINKNYC
How many hacks and cyber attacks have targeted the LinkNYC network? According to
a report by Motherboard, the LinkNYC network has been targeted by at least 10
hacks and cyber attacks since its launch in 2016. The most recent attack, which
occurred in January 2023, allowed hackers to access the personal information of
millions of…
Daily Payphone | April 1, 2023
PAYPHONES ON MAUI. DECEMBER, 2022.
As recently as 2016 Hawaii had the most payphones per capita of any state in the
union. Most of Hawaii's payphones are owned and operated by Hawaii Telecom, the
regional phone company for the state. Payphones in the other 49 of these United
States of America are run by COCOTs. Now you know.
Daily Payphone | March 29, 2023
ABBÉ FRANZ LISZT TALKING ON A 5TH AVENUE PAYPHONE AS COSIMA WAGNER LOOKS ON.
SUMMER, 2016.
Not impressed by Dall-E's attempts at American-style payphones. Or Franz Liszt.
Or Cosima Wagner. Or Warren Beatty.
Daily Payphone | March 24, 2023
FRESH LINKNYC CARNAGE
I had not seen this kind of damage to a LinkNYC machine in some time, though
I’ve not paid as much attention to these machines as in times past. They remain
about the same as ever in terms of reliability. Sometimes a phone call works,
sometimes it does not. You just never know what to…
Link.NYC | March 14, 2023
HISTORY IS BEING REWRITTEN, ONE AI PROMPT AT A TIME
On three separate occasions I asked ChatGPT what it knew about LinkNYC. It got
several facts wrong but presented a typically convincing-sounding mishmash of
accuracy and lies. Even I wanted to believe the bullshit. It didn’t occur to me
right away, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to see what AI thought it knew about…
Link.NYC | March 13, 2023
ASCOT COMMUNICATIONS: ABANDONED PAYPHONE
It’s true. I don’t here much these days. That doesn’t mean my hands are idle.
Quite the opposite. I don’t know when it happened, or if there was a moment of
clarity, but posting stories to websites started to feel like futility
incarnate. Why post here to an audience of a few dozen when inane…
Daily Payphone | February 13, 2023
VIDEO: THE FALLEN PHONE OF FLUSHING FIELDS, AND A GENUINE “LAST PAYPHONE OF NEW
YORK CITY”
A search for the fallen payphone of Flushing Fields turned up an unexpected find
nearby, making for two abandoned and long-dead Verizon rigs on the same city
block. How many of these ghost payphones remain, lurking on New York City's
sidewalks?
Daily Payphone | January 4, 2023
IS *THIS* THE LAST CITYBRIDGE PAYPHONE OF NEW YORK CITY?
That payphone is supposed to be gone. The City and DoITT made the bizarre and
uninformed announcement in May that the last sidewalk payphones of New York City
had been plucked from a spot near Times Square. How could they forget this one,
and the numerous others that remained until a few months after that echo-chamber
of a press event?
Daily Payphone | November 2, 2022
FOUND SOME FLATBUSH PAYPHONES (VIDEO)
I used my patent-pending technique of reverse-engineering public information to
locate derelict and decrepit payphones in Flatbush on Sunday. (Just kidding
about the patent thing.) I expected three devices but found only two. It turns
out one of them had been tweeted to my timeline a couple of months ago. At the
start of this…
Daily Payphone | November 1, 2022
LINKNYC LIGHTS UP THE PRE-DAWN HOUR
LinkNYC is now failing upward into a new iteration: Link5G, 32-foot towers that
will fill a need no one is certain really exists.
Link.NYC | November 1, 2022
ANOTHER PAYPHONE STRAMBLE, THIS TIME THROUGH HOLLIS (VIDEO)
This one sent me to Hollis, where I found a long-dead Verizon phone moldering
away in a somewhat odd spot. See more of my payphone strambles at the YouTube
playlist: Payphones of New York City and New Jersey. An ad which included the
“Talk To Me” project showed up on my phone while out doing…
Daily Payphone | October 18, 2022
THE OLD PAYPHONE ACROSS FROM RAVENSWOOD
This payphone got a lot of use, but the advertising enclosure got a lot of
abuse. The duct tape looks like it might be the only thing holding this
structure up. The ad panels did not usually stay in place for long, typically
ending up on the sidewalk or on 34th Avenue after someone ripped them out.
Daily Payphone | September 14, 2022
FLUSHING MAIN STREET 7 TRAIN SUBWAY. ONE OF THE PAYPHONES HERE STILL WORKS.
Somehow this payphone survives. It has dial tone. You can call people through
this device. It is awesome.
Daily Payphone | August 31, 2022
PAYPHONE RAMBLINGS, AND SOME VIDEOS
It’s become a chore, I’m sorry to say, to post content to this website. I don’t
like WordPress anymore but it I feel stuck with it. I post more frequently to
wsbj.com/sorabji, I believe on account of having set up the post-by-email
gateway. It seems so much easier and enjoyable to post outside the WordPress…
Daily Payphone | August 31, 2022
CHECKING IN ON A CHINATOWN RARITY. PROBABLY THE LAST SURVIVING PAGODA-TOPPED
PHONE BOOTH IN NYC.
Short video of a pristine old New England Telephone booth hiding away in
Chinatown.
Daily Payphone | August 15, 2022
PAYPHONES OF RUTH’FD, NEW JERSEY. OCTOBER, 2021.
In which I spotted a rare ETS payphone in the wilds of New Jersey. I am making
my documentary payphone videos available on archive.org from now on. Archive.org
= Less likes, more love.
Daily Payphone | July 18, 2022
[VIDEO] DIAL TONE IN THE BRONX, AND OTHER CO-OP CITY PAYPHONE FINDS
I am told I missed a few, but Co-Op City turned up a number of intact and
not-so-intact payphone remains. This further highlights what a lie it was when
New York City, with even the New York Times repeating the claim, declared that
the “Last Payphone of New York City” had been plucked from the…
Daily Payphone | July 16, 2022
[VIDEO] MY PAYPHONE-FINDING INVESTIGATIVE SKILLS THRIVE UNABATED
I don't know why the clamshell has slunk so low to the ground, or if it was
always like that for ADA compliance? Given its location that makes not a lot of
sense but anything is possible.
Daily Payphone | July 12, 2022
[VIDEO] TWO PAYPHONE TOURS ON PRIDE SUNDAY: WEST END AVE. & TIMES SQUARE/PORT
AUTHORITY
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…
Daily Payphone | July 7, 2022
[VIDEO] CHECKING IN FROM ROCKEFELLER CENTER’S LAST WORKING PAYPHONE
This phone is all that is left of Rockefeller Center's once-formidable
"COMMUNICATIONS" portal. This is from last week, after the mentally and
intellectually orgasmic conversation with a new PCP who, I did not know, also
doubles as a psychotherapist. That was the emotionally clog-draining
psychotherapy session I never thought I'd get.
Daily Payphone | June 29, 2022
HOW MANY “LAST PAYPHONES OF NEW YORK CITY” REMAIN? HERE’S ONE.
Last month's announcement that the "last payphone" of New York City had been
hauled off to slaughter was very specific in its definition of "last payphone."
So specific, in fact, that it not only failed to acknowledge a variety of
still-working publicly-accessible phones but also the rotted remains of
CityBridge-owned phones like this one.
Daily Payphone | June 27, 2022
A NEW YORK TIMES RAMBLE
I left Jayson Blaire's effluvia out of this litany.
Daily Payphone | June 22, 2022
[VIDEO] CHECKING IN FROM YET ANOTHER “LAST PAYPHONE OF NEW YORK CITY”
I have more triggers than I thought. Others to come?
Daily Payphone | June 22, 2022
PRAY-SPOTTING IN THE MOVIES.
Thanks to Diggy64 in the comments section of 2020’s article “PRAYphones Gone
From Midtown Manhattan” we now know that work of the immortal scratchiti artist
PRAY made an appearance in 1984’s Brother From Another Planet and other films as
well. Here is PRAY’s appearance from that film, at about 44:38. Look for more
discussion of…
In Movies and on TV | June 22, 2022
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No payphone here, despite the sign promising one. Bushwick Sunday AM.
Unusual looking payphone in Dyker Heights. Post pay. Thx to normieslayer on
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