Due largely to the overwhelming dominance of mobile phones, payphones are a sometimes overlooked relic from the 90’s and earlier eras. While seldom seen out in the wild these days, they can however ...

When I asked the Tower City security guard, Al, what he missed most about the payphone era, he said calling his mother. She had recently passed away. The strongest responses came from one question, ...

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 ...

Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is more of a museum piece than a functional object. So it’s fitting that the phone immediately made its ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

It'll be in an exhibit about NYC before computers and digital technology. A New York City payphone—one of the last relics of an analog past—was removed from the street on Monday, signaling the end of ...

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier. The gist is that every time someone made a collect call, the company made money by being ...