This content was published on May 23, 2022 – 17:55
New York, May 23 (EFE).- The last telephone booth that was left standing in New York City, in the heart of Manhattan, has just been removed this Monday, according to several local media.
This last booth, which still had the Bell System logo visible on the phone (a blue bell in a circle) and had survived the era of mobile phones, was located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 50th Street .
The booth actually belonged to Titan, a company that in 2010 bought the remaining 1,300 phone booths from Verizon (the largest telephone provider in New York) to use as advertising media, but all of them disappeared over the years.
In 2015, the New York City Council began installing state-of-the-art kiosks (today there are 2,000) that allow New Yorkers to have free Wi-Fi in a nearby radius, charge mobile phone batteries and make calls free of charge, and that was the definitive decline of the cabins.
At the small ceremony held today to commemorate the end of a symbol, the president of the District of Manhattan, Mark Levine, was not carried away by nostalgia and said that the telephone booths “made us all suffer equally.”
He recalled the numerous telephones without a tone, the booths that swallowed coins without giving a signal or the long queues of users waiting to access a free telephone, according to the abc7ny network.
But for those nostalgic, there are still four “vintage” aesthetic places on West End Avenue, used mostly by tourists or mere “instagramers” who take pictures inside those relics. EFE
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