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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 ...
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 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 ...
New York City on Thursday officially launched its payphone booth replacements: shiny new 9-foot-high kiosks dubbed Links that offer free Gigabit-speed Wi-Fi as well as free domestic phone calls ...
New York City is scuttling a project that installed thousands of transmitters in payphone booths that could track people's movements. A private company named Titan had previously received city ...
Phone booth construction and availability reached its peak in the 1990s. According to the Federal Communications Commission, there were 2,068,540 payphones in America in 1997. By 2016, that number ...
NEW YORK – New York City is scuttling a project that would have installed in payphone booths thousands of transmitters that could track people's movements. A private company named Titan had ...
Just 15 years ago, New York City had 35,000 phone booths. Thanks to cell phones it now has just 11,000, most of which serve little purpose for anyone ...
The nonprofit has dedicated itself to keeping the old-school phone booth alive, ... "In the beginning, I just wanted to put up a payphone because they were disappearing," Anderson says by phone.
A mysterious Chinese payphone hacker without a job has spent most evenings for the past several years pirating internet service at a phone booth.