When: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at around 1:30 p.m.
Where: The back end of the Manhattan-bound platform at the 7th Ave. stop along the Brighton Line
This sad, neglected — and broken — pay phone has become a de facto trash receptacle. Someone, perhaps angry that they missed the train or annoyed with the caller on the other end of the line, smashed the earpiece off the headset, and the phone now dangles to the side. On top of the now-useless pay phone is an empty coffee cup, discarded earlier in the day because there are no nearby garbage cans. The pay phone is bound to remain broken for longer than the coffee cup will stay there, but at least the broken relic of another era had its morning joe.
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This is such a familiar sight. Although this phone is straight out of the Matrix.
Part of me hopes that pay phones never completely go away. But then I haven’t used one in years, so how do I expect them to stay around?
FYI King of Prussia plaza 17-miles northwest of Philadelphia, recently removed all of there pay phones. I’m talking a lot of them.
Are all of these public pay phones owned by Verizon?
No. About 39% of all public pay phones are owned by Verizon.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/.....ne.shtml#5
The Last Phone Booth In New York City
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=852
the city’s pay phone ad revenue {has}outstripped its earnings from calls. The city collects 26 percent of the ad money, while it gets 10 percent of the revenue from local calls and 50 percent from long-distance calls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08.....hones.html
# of Pay Phones in New York City —- Anyone have this info—
not in Mayor’s Management Report…
Train platforms are one of the few places we need payphones any more because there’s no cell reception in the vast majority of underground stations. I see people using them occasionally. When the underground stations have cell reception, they should be removed, but until then I think they should be maintained.