Wednesday, July 8, 2009

And then there were four

"There are only four outdoor phone booths left in Manhattan — and they're all on West End Avenue. That's it: four."

(via Daring Fireball)

comments: 4

Elaine Fine said...

All of these are in my old neighborhood! Did you notice that two are next to mailboxes, and two are next to newspaper vending machines? A dwindling oasis of what are now "old time" civilized tools to have contact with the world outside of the island.

Michael Leddy said...

And one is next to one of the mysterious (to me, anyway) green boxes where the mail gets stored.

Geo-B said...

Really, mysterious? As a former mailman I can tell you anything you want to know about the mysterious green mailboxes. Once when I got sick I sat in one.

Michael Leddy said...

Mysterious in the way that, say, a tollbooth's interior is mysterious — most people haven't seen what's in there.