New York removes the last public phone booth

Of the public phone booths were once New York icons, but the ubiquity of cell phones made them obsolete. According to USA Today, New York’s last phone booth is located at 745 7th Avenue.

New York’s Office of Technology and Innovation says it has been working to replace all public phone booths across the city starting in 2014.

The move to dismantle public phone booths in New York follows the emergence of free wireless Internet (wifi) and cell phones in recent years.

Landline public telephone booths began to become obsolete and gradually disappeared from New York streets in the early 2000s, as cell phones became more widely used, and then quickly fell into oblivion. forgotten with the explosion of smartphones in the early 2010s.

By 2015, public phone booths were almost empty when Manhattan installed thousands of free Wi-Fi hotspots. These access points called LinkNYC will gradually be connected to the 5G network.

According to local media, the borough of Manhattan will keep four public phone booths that are no longer working because these kiosks have been ubiquitous in popular culture over the past decades, from comic books to comic books. Hollywood blockbusters and TV shows.

In the superhero movie, a pay phone booth became a “changing room” for journalist Clark Kent to transform into “Man of Steel”.

Old New York City phone booth. (Photo: Security Intelligence)

Public phone booths are scattered all over the streets of New York. (Photo: Improve Everywhere)

A public phone booth in New York City, USA. (Photo: Patch.com)

LinkNYC kiosks are gradually replacing old phone booths. (Photo: CBS News)

Workers dismantle the last public phone booth in New York City (USA). (Photo: CNBC)

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