This Monday there CNY Remove thelast phone booth A relic from a time that no longer exists. As in London, payphones were also part of the symbolism of the city in New York. Then came the smartphones, making them obsolete.

Thus, even the last telephone booths that survived until a few days ago were little more than a symbolic garrison of an era that is now over. Nobody used them anymore.

In 2015, under the specific mandate of then-mayor DeBlasio, the city began phasing out and replacing most of the payphones. Some have been replaced by LinkNYCkiosks that offer the possibility to charge the battery of smartphones for free and connect to the Public Wi-Fi More than 2000 LinkNYCs have been installed since 2015.

Just as humanity has moved from horses and carriages to cars, and as we have moved from cars to airplanes, digital evolution has taken us from payphones to kiosks with super-fast Wi-Fi. We did it to meet the needs of citizens, the way we communicate every day is changing rapidly and we have to adapt

Councilor Matthew Fraser explained.

The last phone booth is shown to Museum of the City of New York The theme of the exhibition? New York City before the advent of computers.


Source: Lega Nerd

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