Due largely to the overwhelming dominance of mobile phones, payphones are a sometimes overlooked relic from the 90’s and earlier eras. While seldom seen out in the wild these days, they can however ...

ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- They're planted on sidewalks, bolted to buildings, but many of them serve no purpose. At street corner after street corner, receivers have been ripped off the wire; in one, a ...

Justin Flynn is an editor and writer from Ireland. He became a gamer at the age of eight when a mix-up at his local toy store landed him a copy of Kingdom Hearts. Since then, he has earned a Bachelor ...

Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is more of a museum piece than a functional object. So it’s fitting that the phone immediately made its ...

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Knowing how to unlock Payphone Hits in GTA Online opens the door to another side hustle, this time working as a gun for hire to carry out a series of varied assassinations. These jobs are sent your ...

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier. The gist is that every time someone made a collect call, the company made money by being ...

In smog-darkened days and streetlight lit nights, every person who’s ever put a quarter in the slot and a public pay phone receiver to their ear probably has their own story to tell, though chances ...

Accepting a quest from a payphone is one of the first challenges you can complete in Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7. Like NPCs, payphones allow you to accept quests which will reward you with Gold Bars, ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

The last standing public payphone in the city was removed from a Times Square street on Monday. City officials bade farewell to the iconic, coin-operated phone booth as a crane ripped it from the ...

Surveillance camera footage captured a truly wild scene as the lives of two people were saved from a car that was about to roll over them in Milwaukee over the weekend. The hero in all of this? A ...