NYC Removes Its Last Payphone

It’s the end of an era as the last payphone in New York City was removed on Monday. Payphones used to be a ubiquitous symbol of urban NYC (among other cities), but grew increasingly obsolete with the rise of LinkNYC kiosks, a network of thousands of charging & WiFi stations that replaced traditional phones beginning in 2015.
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