'Just like we transitioned from the horse and buggy to the automobile and from the automobile to the airplane, the digital evolution has progressed from payphones to high-speed Wi-Fi kiosks,' said NYC's Commissioner of the Office of Tech and Innovation.
The last city-run payphone being removed from Times Square.Midtown Manhattan said goodbye to a long-standing resident on Monday when the city's last working public payphone was officially removed from the area.
“As a native New Yorker, saying goodbye to the last street payphone is bittersweet because of the prominent place they’ve held in the city's physical landscape for decades," said Matthew Fraser, NYC's Commissioner of the Office of Technology and Innovation.
The payphone isn't being sent to the scrapyard though: it's headed to the Museum of the City of New York as part of their new exhibit"It's really fortuitous, I have to say," Lilly Tuttle, the curator of the show, told Gothamist about the museum's unexpected acquisition. The city reached out to the museum last week to see if they were interested in taking the payphone. It just happens that the exhibit, which had long been in the works, opened last Friday.
"The fact that we had just opened an exhibition on this topic really made it a no-brainer," she said. "In the exhibition, we talk about the fact that people made plans and navigated the city and did things for decades and decades before cell phones. We were New Yorkers before and we're New Yorkers now, and whether or not we have payphones doesn't necessarily symbolize the end of anything, just a change in the way we communicate.
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