The Payphone Project

These charmers are a recent discovery for me.

I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS tapes moldering away in a bedroom drawer.

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.

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.

Funny story about a payphone call that went horribly, horribly wrong.

How many hacks and cyber attacks have targeted the LinkNYC network?

As recently as 2016 Hawaii had the most payphones per capita of any state in the union.

Not impressed by Dall-E's attempts at American-style payphones.

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.

On three separate occasions I asked ChatGPT what it knew about LinkNYC.

It’s true.

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.

That payphone is supposed to be gone.

I used my patent-pending technique of reverse-engineering public information to locate derelict and decrepit payphones in Flatbush on Sunday.