Giving 2nd life to England's iconic red phone booths 03:49. It was the end of an era in New York City today: the city's last remaining payphone was removed.

Officials gathered in Times Square for the removal of what they called New York City's last public pay phone, which is headed to a local museum. But a number of other pay phones are still standing.

Now, the only official pay phones on New York City streets will be four phone booths maintained in perpetuity on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Image. West 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue on May 5 ...

New York City's Last Payphone Has Been Removed: Replaced by LinkNYC Wi-Fi kiosks. ... NYC’s last free-standing pay phones removed this a.m. in Times Sq. (7th Ave & 50th St.).

Now, New York City is replacing its pay phones with LinkNYC kiosks, where people can place free phone calls, connect to Wi-Fi, charge their devices, and view maps and directions.

New York pay phones' new calling Sleek digital kiosks, complete with wifi and weather forecasts, will replace the city's outdated telephone booths ...

The last public payphone has been removed from New York City’s streets after a seven year programme to update the kiosks with high-tech equivalents.. On Monday, the payphone on 745 7th Avenue ...

In 1999, there were more than 2 million pay phones across America. 5% are left today. ... About a fifth of America's 100,000 remaining pay phones are in New York, according to the FCC.

In New York City, in the exact spots where pay phones once stood, wifi kiosks will soon connect people with the world — and you don’t even need a quarter to use them.

This is a making-lemonade-out-of-lemons story, so prepare yourself to be inspired by this magical tale of innovation. No one ever uses pay phones anymore — well, no one other than drug dealers ...

The Verizon pay-phone empire is all but over outside of the company's New York City home market. As Greg Bensinger reports in The Journal, the telecommunications giant has agreed to sell nearly ...