New York City Removes Last Public Payphone
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Once a fixture on city streets, New York's payphones have been replaced by kiosks that offer free calls, Wi-Fi and charging stations. WNBC's Gus Rosendale reports.
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They could have kept just one public payphone for nostalgic reasons.
you have exactly my thoughts. but they are going to keep it in city museum so people can see.
lots of Hollywood movies were incomplete without pay phone including one where Colin Farell was kept at gun point in phone booth. Ironically called phone booth.
@@brajeshsingh2391 Yeah that is true. I am glad they are going to keep it at the museum. I do remember that Phone Booth movie and I actually thought it was surprisingly good considering it taking place in a single location. 😄
Exactly. Just one.
It's New York, What do you expect?
Also, payphones were the only way to escape the matkix
Cell phones get lost and stolen every day. There is still a use for a few pay phones to be around.
Pay Phones Hold 300.00 In Coins it Cost to Much Money To Pay Someone To Pick Up The Money These Days
Do you even know a phone number by heart? If you don’t, this pay phone is the least of your worries. Growing up when everyone used landlines, you either had to remember it by heart or had a booklet. Now that everyone texts or googles, I doubt that a lot of people made calls.
That's all fine and good except now homeless people without a cell phone now have no way to dial 911.
Government hands out free phones 2 them.
That’s the reason
If only you could read lmao
"Once a fixture on city streets, New York's payphones have been replaced by kiosks that offer free calls, Wi-Fi and charging stations. WNBC's Gus Rosendale reports."
Your forgetting about the link phone machines with the giant screens on each side, they offer free calls
Bob and how are they supposed to charge it? Or how are they supposed to call? Calls are not free.
That $38,000 in the phone booth was probably mob or drug money. Wonder how many people got whacked because they didn't get paid?
There was a restaurant in NYC that kept the phone booth (with a seat in it), even though it didn't have the phone connected, so that people could take their cell phones in there and have their conversations, without disturbing the other customers trying to have a quiet meal.
I think that would be a great thing to do all over the place! Tired of hearing other peoples conversations while trying to mind my own business and just enjoy a meal in a restaurant. 📞📱
What's even worse is the people doing Facetime video calls and talking loudly
Wow that's really a memory gone but it will never be forgotten.
So true
They still have them
I remember calling my girlfriend from a payphone outside my apartment building when I was in college. I didn't even have a phone in my apartment.
There's still plenty in my city. One is still only 10 cents!
Payphones should just still exist. Lots of poor people can't afford phone and used to rely on those to call their loved ones. Just sad
Greece still maintains them as the new generation of ancient Greek artifacts.
They still have them
Now They just have to get rid of new yorkers
Haaaa....
Fake story. There is still a working public phone booth at the NW corner of 90th Street and West End Ave.
New York City removes last public payphone?
Dang. Where the heck am I going to urinate whenever I visit the Big Apple?
Anywhere you please, like we did in the 70s and 80s. There's some real nyc nostalgia
poor neo and trinity - no more escape from matrix
That is the real reason they’re removing them all.
Lol. ;)
But where is Superman going to change and what if birds start attacking? Full Booths are gone and now this. They could sell these for art. I am so nostalgic.
Superman Now Changes Into His Costume In The Dumpster Coral Behind T Mobile Or Boost Mobile
They still have them
@stephenzies8867 LOL. Imagine being save by Superman and asking him why he smells so bad. Like where did he last came from. A dumpster, a public bathroom or just got done taking #2.
They will bring them back, but ironically.
Only hipsters will use them, even though they have a cell phone in their pocket.
They will rave about the rich, old school tone they get from a real vintage pay phone ..
They still have them
Nobody can “Drop a dime “ anymore lol
Last time I used a pay phone was in 2010. Had to go to many many gas stations to find one🤣
They still have them
Don't worry I heard they are going to replace all NYC public phones with statues of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
what a shame
That's very sad.
It was better when people had to use pay phones and everyone was not walking and driving glued to their phones.
And before that it was television, and before that radio, and before that newspapers.
Times change.
Nobody drives watching their phone, that's really irresponsible and illegal.
i Remember When A Local Call From A Pay Phone Was 5 Cents In NYC And the City Bus And Subway Was 15 Cents. i Was In The Subway With My Mother During The Black Out Of 1965
I am surprised. Why should pay phones be removed even though there are cell phones available?🙂
Well; its one of the biggest mistakes, once you get rid of hard lines phones for Cell Phones. Guess what can happens. THINK...
Its more important to remove the criminals and thugs from the streets and subways of NYC.. The payphone is the least of the problems.
Your logic is illogical.
And in 20 years time, these LinkNYC wifi kiosks will be removed and replaced by an even higher form of technology. It's been a cycle since mankind invented electricity. As a person obsessed with nostalgia, they should've kept those last payphones there to remind us of our history.
It's nyc...I give it eight years tops
Like many kingdoms & ancient civilizations these payphones had suddenly fallen
Cool. Hate to see such an iconic thing being removed. Should've kept it to show our progress to the future. Only thing we missing is the flying cars 🤣😂😂😂
They still have them
I remember pay phones when I tried to score some ganja. Lol. Now, I just go the dispensary and buy some Bob Marley. Wow, how the time has changed.
That’s bad
That’s actually not true there is a payphone still up at west 101 street and west end ave! Go check it out
Wasn't that a place to duck some weather to take a call?
There’s still a pay phone in midtown on E 56 street and 5th
Boy, if that payphone could talk! ☎️
That's only fair. They removed the last public toilet in 1987.
New York has lost its style 😔
I still remember using payphones in the early 2000s Cell phones were around back then, but I couldn't afford one. We use still have payphones in the downtown of my city inside malls.
Lets just say that I used to keep the payphone repair man reeeeeally busy back in the 80s. Now I feel bad.
What about paper phone books? Are there any available in a public space?
What's that?
gone too.
@@SirKolass books that had peoples and companies numbers in it haven't been around since the late 2000's to 2010
It was my dream to use one of those phones...
They need to bring them back! At least as phone booths on corners! Not everyone can afford a cellphone and I’m betting diamonds to dollars those Wi-Fi kiosks don’t always work for emergencies!!
Do you know what a pay phone is?
Ugh I think so
Me: the intelligence of kids today summed up RIGHT THERE
That has nothing to do with intelligence. It has to do with experience.
Oh, the projection.
I've never used a carrier pigeon or a smoke signal but the name is self explanatory and back when I went to grade school, we actually learned about history and things past.
If she can't deduce what a PAYphone is and has never seen one on superman or speed or clueless....god help us.
It's almost like you know everything about your ancestors, hypocrite. That kid has no reason to give a sht about some outdated phone boxes.
Gen zers .. reacted as if phone booths are something obscene..
Lol why? I was planning on using a phone booth.
I would have kept that money!
Should use the phone for HELP!
911, or Mentally health.
0:19 "Now everybody's on their cell phones and we hear their whole personal life."
This should definitely be a movie straight up from New York "The Last Standing Pay Phone!" Let's go New Yorkers to put the moment out there. The Pay Phones were business empire in New York at the time of its peak ran by the addicts on the streets who I will not call them crackheads. International Connection!
This is sad ☹️
I don't think many realize how sad this actually is.
But what if you need to call somebody out in public? 🤔
cell phone
Did you even watch the video? 0:50
They still have them
00:14 in a world where cellphones OWN our eyes and ears.
"back in the 60's"
Did those phones actually work? I’ve seen pay phones still around but they are vandalized beyond reality
Should keep it as a show. For tourists to take pictures.
Yeah I, I know it's hard to remember
The people we used to be
It's even harder to picture
There's no payphone in the street
Now it's too late to make it
But is it too late to try?
And in our time that we upgraded
All of the payphones broke down
I've missed all my nights
Call if she's alright
Not glued on some light
Still stuck in that time
When we called it love
Now it's just cellphones keeping me entice
I'm outta Payphone 😢
so what do you do if you need to make an emergency call and your car wallet and phone are stolen?
What if you walk outside and lightning strikes you?
@@Hsteel being this is new york my scenario is a bit more likely
@@octoman511 Get a whistle
Be happy they didn't stick you and kick rocks back home.
SAD DAY
It all changed when the mobile phone nation attacked
What happened to public need? Is this because it's illegal for the FBI to record there? And, no more change👵
Woah you can call for free even if it is to make a call if you happen to be in ny ny in order to call spmeone regardless of where they are? Or at least in the usa?
Here in Brazil we have a payphone called "Orelhão" (Big ear), the phone is covered with a big ear like dome. Here in my city they were removed more than a decade ago when I was a kid, I never got to use them, I have no clue if they still exist elsewhere.
O último orelhão que vi foi a 1 ano atrás
To the people saying, what happens if my phone breaks? I want to personally ask, when was the last time you dialed a phone number instead of using Google?
i dont have a cellphone! how im i suppose to call my doctor
buy a cell phone you can get them for dirt cheap these days
They literally showed you LinkNYC offers free calls and a 911 button. Try watching the whole thing before complaining. 0:50
What if wifi has no internet connection
Do they HAVE TO USE A PUN in every story???😬😭
Now if there's a crime who you gonna call nobody
They literally showed you the new ones offer free calls and a 911 button. Try watching the whole thing before complaining.
I'm not sure, but I DO know who I'm gonna call if there's something weird and it don't look good
You will never remove the phones! Never
That’s really sad.
Leave it to democrats to erase history……..
lol
Killing old memories for new one what a shame on this world
The world has to evolve, your old memories killed someone's older memories, that's how it is, you're no different.
Can I call for a pizza or the white wine can you hear me know
Ahh so stupid. We love it. #LalapaNEWSa
They remove the phones because of the !!!!! Coro.!!!! na..!!!! virus !!!! 😆 🤣 😂
😁
I think everything these days , sucks. Cell phones give you brain cancer. I long for a return to what was simple and good.
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you know that's a bad move what if a homeless guy sees someone gun down & needs to call 911 right & he has some change todo so but now you took out all the phones out they can't call no one & lets say something happens to the power grid or everyones cell phones you gave up all the hard lines i think its a bad idea to take away all the pay phones
Try watching the entire video next time. LinkNYC comes with free calls and a 911 button. 0:50
Most homeless have the free Obama phone they give away on the street