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the last uninstalled kiosk phone

It’s the end of a myth popularized in culture over decades of comics, photography, cinema and television. New York City on Monday unplugged its last payphone bootha kind of coin-operated telephone kiosk, made greatly famous through the fantastic character of Superman. It is in these telephone booths that the journalist Clark Kent turned into a superhero.

In front of the press, the municipal authorities and the mayor of the borough of Manhattan Mark Levine, thus had the last “booth” housing two telephones dismantled. He sat on the corner of 7th Avenue and 50th Street, in the center of the new york island.

Wired payphones began to gradually disappear from US city streets at the beginning of the 2000’s, as mobile phones appeared and their use became normalized. For several years, these public telephones have been gradually replaced by free WiFi hotspots. “It’s really the end of an era, but also, we hope, the beginning of a new era with more equal access to technology,” said Mark Levine.

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