Phone Booths Nearly Extinct in NY!

a note on phone booths:

http://the-landscape.blogspot.com/2010/08/are-phone-booths-thing-of-past-those.html

The rapid removal of the payphone is a huge disservice to the city. A couple of months ago I didn't have a cell phone on me and I went on a 15+ block hunt to find a phone. Not everyone has a cell phone. Not everyone has a house phone. The maintenance is ridiculously low, so I don't want to hear that argument.

There's a nice wooden one in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum too.

There is an old wooden phone booth inside the Ear Inn on Spring Street, but the phone was removed and now a non functioning ATM machine is in it's place. But you can use it for making cell phone calls which are not allowed in the open area of the "restaurant." So I guess you could still call it a phone booth.

There are two old phone booths in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel. They may not be around long however because of the idiots who are now managing the Hotel. They tore out the mailboxes behind the desk and of course demolished Bob Dylan's room. It looks like they'll destroy any vestiages of the old Hotel that they can legally get away with. Bring Back the Bards!

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WHY DOES EVERY JEN CARLSON HEADLINE HAVE AN EXCLAMATION POINT AT THE END?!

BECAUSE EXCITEMENT IS ON THE RISE!

Do the phones work?

I've found its 50-50 any public phones actually getting a dial tone

Sidenote

How about power lines going underground next?

Talk about a public works project for the nation

That's the way it is in Europe - how about here?

Beautification for all

Wow, I didn't realize the one on my block (101st) was that precious...

Sooner or later they will add Suicide Boxes (especiall with the way the economy is going) like the movie SOYLENT GREEN.

Even better portrayal in the first episode of Futurama.

"You have selected Slow and Horrible."

"Good choice."

I'd like to find one and do my impression of DeNiro in Goodfellas after hearing Tommy got wacked.

"He's gone, and there was nuthin' we could do about it."

Yes, thanks for the mention. I posted a series of photos of those phone booths a few years ago. They are all on West End Avenue:

Last Phone Booths of Manhattan

There remain many indoor booths, though those are disappearing, too. A nice set of booths in the basement of the UBS building in midtown was recently removed, but the main branch of the NY Public Library still has some elegant wood booths which I spotted just yesterday. I also psot an occasional and even rare rotary dial payphone, though I keep those locations a secret so the phone companies do not "upgrade" them.

If you really want to go yard head out to Yankee Pier, off Governors Island. There is an awesome couple of ancient booths lurking out there -- or at least theywere there last time I checked:

Yankee Pier Phone Booth

Have a great day

-mt

The lobby near the information desk at Cornell-Presbyterian Hospital (68th Street entrance) has a row of wooden phone booths, with phone books & seats to boot!

I was out at Governor's Island this weekend, and, sad to say, I'm pretty sure the one at Yankee Pier is gone.

phonebooths= public restrooms.

You beat me to it.

5 bucks says at least 2 of the remaining 4 have dookies in them at any given moment.

The next to go on the street are alarm boxes.

Say it ain't so. The original ones are the only pieces of genuine Art-Nouveau in this city. There has to be a way to landmark them.

Crackheads better steal them for scrap ASAP before they're gone.

Isn't there a phone booth on 2nd Avenue outside of a bar named Telephone bar or something? Near 10th Street?

What avenues are the 4 remaining ones?

all on west end

what about the one in crif dogs?!