Manhattan's Secret Payphone Graveyard

I remember when I was just getting into Phreaking and owning a real payphone from Ma-Bell was like the holy grail for me.

I immediately thought of how gross these things must be, but I have no idea.

I would hope that police call buttons or something of the sort replaces these things, but I'm guessing not. I guess also a lot of Manhattan has been gentrified such that they can rely on victims to probably have or know someone with a cellphone?

I'm wondering if there is any significance in that they are almost all just the housing and not the actual phone part. The few shots there have some overlap in number of housings and I can see only three that have the phone parts. I wonder what lands a payphone in this lot.

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