But let Superman fans be reassured: Manhattan will keep four telephone booths closed, those in which journalist Clark Kent turns into a superhero.
On Monday morning, New York put an end to a myth popularized in popular culture over decades of comics, photography, film and television.
In front of the press, the municipal authorities and the president (the equivalent of the mayor) of the borough of Manhattan Mark Levine had the last “booth” housing two telephones dismantled and placed on a truck, which sat enthroned at the corner of the 7th Avenue and 50th Street in the center of New York Island, marked with the blue bell logo of the telecommunications company Bell System.