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The last public payphone from NYC streets was removed by Leonard Greene

It was the conclusion of an important period in New York City today: the city’s final payphone was taken out. With the approach of cellphones, pay phones across the world have disappeared – yet one actually stayed on 7th Avenue, until its expulsion Monday by LinkNYC.

The expulsion of pay phones in New York City began in 2015, and LinkNYC is the technology that basically supplanted them. CityBridge created LinkNYC, which looks like digital billboards that offer free high-speed WiFi to the streets of New York.

Since LinkNYC was installed, it has worked with north of 3 billion WiFi sessions with more than 10 million subscribers. The digital billboards also display PSAs, art, and other nearby data. LinkNYC will soon be providing 5G coverage to New York City.

The old payphone that once stood outside 745 7th Avenue will be brought to the Museum of the City of New York as a feature of its new “Analog City” exhibit. The display glances back at life in the city before computers.

How many payphones are in NYC?

The city has removed thousands of payphones across each of the five boroughs in the past quite a while. In 2014, there were more than 6,000 active public pay phones on city sidewalks, according to the city website.

The payphones were all to be eliminated by 2020, but the process took longer than originally planned.

Do people still use payphones in NYC?

Despite the fact that the user had gone way down, city authorities said that public compensation phones were as yet utilized for standard calls and, surprisingly, significant distance calls.

“I won’t miss all the dead dial tones but gotta say I felt a twinge of nostalgia seeing it go,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine tweeted after the phone booth was carted away.

Be that as it may, don’t surrender. New Yorkers frantic for a spot to discard their spare change can in any case find a couple of telephone stalls left underground at different train stations. Good luck hearing anything with the subway rumbling by.

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