Thursday, July 29, 2021

The final four

Ephemeral New York takes a look at the last outdoor telephone booths in New York City. They were there in 2009. They were replaced by new booths in 2016.

I find it cheering that each booth has a mailbox or postal relay box at its side for companionship.

Related reading
All OCA telephone booth posts (Pinboard)

[The booth at 100th Street and West End Avenue, not pictured in the Ephemeral New York post, also has a mailbox.]

comments: 2

Anonymous said...

I’m also a fan of telephone booths and miss seeing them in my city, Toronto,Canada.

Betty

Michael Leddy said...

Now I wish I’d made more use of them. Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?