The last pay phone bank being removed on May 23 (photo courtesy City of New York) As the 2005 Rian Johnson movie Brick proved, nothing generates an instant throwback feel like a pay phone.

It’s the end of an era: New York City removed its last public payphone on Monday. The boxy enclosures were once an iconic symbol across the city. But the rise of cellphones made the booths obsolete.

pay phone usage dwindled. And on May 23, New York City officials removed the city’s last free-standing public pay phones from a midtown Manhattan sidewalk. Manhattan Borough President Mark D.

NEW YORK — It’s the end of an era in New York City, as the last public payphone was removed from a city street Monday in a ceremony featuring several city officials. Monday’s removal marked ...

Monday marked the end of the iconic New York City payphone system as the last standing one was removed from Time Square Street. City officials bid farewell to the coin-operated payphone as a crape ...

The last-ever working public payphone was removed Monday from a New York City street, ending an era of an iconic symbol of the city before cell phones and new technology slowly made them obsolete ...

The final New York City public pay telephone bank was removed on Monday morning ... The removal marks the end of the payphone era in the city except for some private payphones on public property and ...

From comic books to Hollywood blockbusters and TV shows, Pay phone booths have featured widely in pop culture. One of the famous one is...'Superman'. Payphone booths were changing rooms for ...