new york city disconnected this Monday its last public coin telephone booth, the famous “payphone booth”, which have been replaced for years by free WiFi.
Calm down Superman fans: Manhattan is going to keep four closed phone booths, the ones that turn journalist Clark Kent into a superhero.
On Monday in the morningNew York put an end to a myth that survived in popular culture for decades in comics, photos, movies and television.
END OF AN ERA.
NYC’s last free-standing pay phones removed this a.m. in Times Sq. (7th Ave & 50th St.).
No more fishing in your pocket for quarters.pic.twitter.com/ZtRhzWPp4G
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC)
May 23, 2022
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Before the press, the municipal authorities and the president (equivalent to mayor) of the Manhattan neighborhood, Mark Levine, they had the last “booth” with two telephones dismantled and placed in a truckwhich had been for years located on the corner of 7th Avenue and 50th Street, in the center of the Big Apple, marked by the blue bell logo of the Bell System telecommunications company.
“I was there today for the last goodbye to the famous – or embarrassing? – NYC pay phone. I will not miss his lack of tone but I have to admit that I have felt a nostalgic knot in my stomach to see him go, “wrote Mark Levine on Twitter.
The Democrat said don’t really miss the days when these phones worked one out of two times, where you had to search your pockets for a quarter coin (25 cents) or stand in line to call in the middle of the street in full view of passers-by.
public telephones began to disappear from the New York landscape in the early 2000s as cell phones were introducedand accelerated from 2010 with the explosion of smartphones.
Starting in 2015, Manhattan accelerated the installation of thousands of LinkNYC terminals that offer free WiFi and free local calls. These new access points will gradually connect to the 5G network.
JM
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