New York phone booths, once ubiquitous across the city, will soon be no more. On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to replace every pay phone in NYC—there are around 8,400—with WiFi ...

Someone conducting business in a phone booth should have a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” Law enforcement no longer could tap a public pay phone without a search warrant, and with that ...

Phone booths may be obsolete ... recently for the removal of what the city promoted as New York’s last public pay phone. “End of an Era,” declared the news release headline, even though ...

This is no joke. The idea? Bring back phone booths. You’re already saying: What? Phone booths? Who uses pay phones anymore? No one said anything about pay phones. The idea is to put up phone ...

Anyone who lived in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s remembers the prevalence of public phone booths. Children at that time would call their parents at the pay phone to tell them they were done with school ...

A vintage black and white photo of a telephone booth at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. There were over 2.1 million pay phones in the U.S. at their peak in 1999, but now the ...

For some of our younger viewers, a phone booth might as well be a monolith from another world. With Mo Rocca, we remember the good old days... Some of you may recognize this coin-operated ...

My love of phones also applied to telephone booths and pay phones. Any time I could get close enough to one I had to check it out. That involved walking in, closing the folding door, pulling down ...

NYC Pay Phones Pivot To Become Information Hubs A project to turn 250 New York City phone booths into touchscreen sources of help and information has gone live. Superhero changing booths will ...

My first pay phone was not the one on Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore. It was inside a glass-and-steel, stand-alone phone booth in front of a gas station in a small Massachusetts town. It’s ...

A phone booth that may be the last one remaining in Salem, Oregon, has sparked nostalgic interest and preservation efforts.