{"id":25856,"date":"2022-05-24T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=25856"},"modified":"2022-05-24T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T07:38:35","slug":"last-call-final-phone-booths-removed-from-nyc-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/25856","title":{"rendered":"Last call: Final phone booths removed from NYC streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to the NY Daily News, the Big Apple marked the end of an era when a construction crane plucked the last two phone booths from a New York City street.<\/p>\n<p>The Times Square telephones were the last of nearly 8,000 public phones that were still ringing around the city as of March 2015, according to the city\u2019s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25858\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TIMOTHY-A-LARY-AFP-via-Getty-Images-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TIMOTHY-A-LARY-AFP-via-Getty-Images-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TIMOTHY-A-LARY-AFP-via-Getty-Images-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TIMOTHY-A-LARY-AFP-via-Getty-Images-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TIMOTHY-A-LARY-AFP-via-Getty-Images-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/ AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city had been gradually removing them from sidewalks and replacing them with Wi-Fi hotspots and Link NYC cellphone charging kiosks.\u00a0The last of the booths will find a new home at the Museum of the City of New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI won\u2019t miss all the dead dial tone,\u00a0 buty I felt a twinge of nostalgia seeing it go,\u201d Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine tweeted after the phone booth was carted away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to the NY Daily News, the Big Apple marked the end of an era when a construction crane plucked the last two phone booths from a New York City street. The Times Square telephones were the last of nearly 8,000 public phones that were still ringing around the city as of March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,7,1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-featured","category-lifestyle","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856\/revisions\/25859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}