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A disused Midtown payphone booth is getting new life — as a daytime shooting gallery for drug users, people in the area told The Post on Thursday. At least two people a day brazenly inject ...
The removal of the payphone, located at 745 7th Ave., does mark the end of an era of coin-operated communication in New York City. This process began almost a decade ago, when Mayor Michael ...
The last standing public payphone in the city was removed from a Times Square street on Monday. City officials bade farewell to the iconic, coin-operated phone booth as a crane ripped it from the ...
Police in Houma are reaching out to the public for help in finding a man who stole a payphone, including the booth, from an area gas station.The theft happened on Feb. 6 at Sarah’s Discount at ...
The last payphone booth stood on 7th Avenue. It was picked up by a crane and truck to be moved to the Museum of the City of New York to be a part of its exhibit that looks back at life before ...
For kids, the phone booth has become something of a novelty. But grownups can’t be bothered. The first public coin-operated pay phone appeared in Hartford, Conn., in 1889.
When the residents of tiny Bankeir, B.C., found a notice earlier this month from Telus stating their phone booth would be disconnected on Dec. 12, they lobbied the company to leave the phone alone.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. A pink-colored payphone is popping up around Salt Lake City. But picking up the phone won’t allow you to call just anyone ...