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New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: Al Fresco Hot Desking edition
Filed under: 10009, 10012, East Village, East Village Manhattan, Street Furniture
Taken December 10, 2015.
Greenpoint Photos Du Jour: Beautiful On The Inside
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Urban Artifact
Taken July 30, 2015.
The Word On The Street: Special Public Payphone Edition
Filed under: 10011, Chelsea, Chelsea Manhattan, New York City, The Word On The Street
Taken May 30, 2015.
New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: Monologue Machine
Filed under: 11206, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy, Urban Artifact
From Lewis Avenue.
New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: First Avenue
Filed under: 10003, 10009, East Village, East Village Manhattan, The Word On The Street
Taken February 4, 2015.
New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: Greenpoint Avenue
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, The Word On The Street
This just goes to show to go how great of a city this is: you can get anything delivered by simply placing a phone call. Even “white pussy”.
New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: Good Advice
Filed under: 10027, Harlem, Harlem Manhattan, New York City, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy, The Word On The Street
It is no mystery that I harbor a fascination with public pay phones. There are a number of reasons for this, among them:
- The advent and greater affordability of cell phones have rendered them obsolete…
- at least in terms of how they are intended to be used: as a means of communication.
- Thus, they are quite often repurposed for other uses. I need not go into them. We know. This phenomenon (in my humble opinion, anyway) is a sterling testament to human imagination and resourcefulness.
As you have seen, gentle readers, there is communication taking place here. The medium is a yellow paint pen, not a receiver. In all my years of pay phone fetishism I have to say this is one of the most— if not the most— sage pieces of advice I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It made made my day. In fact, I like it so much I may very well make postcards of it. Thank you anonymous vandal!
Greenpoint Photos Du Jour: Calyer Street
Filed under: 11222, Dung of the Day, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Urban Artifact
Today yours truly opted to enjoy a little sunshine and take a stroll along Manhattan Avenue. In so doing I held a great number of interesting things. Among them:
- a few individuals who could best be described as extras attending a casting call for the Zoolander sequel. Mind you, it was not their presence which drew my attention. I am not so naive as to think I do not have such folks as my neighbors in this, the “new” Greenpoint. I know. They do not bother me. The more and different the merrier! Rather, it was the fact they were out and about (READ: out of bed) at 1:00 p.m.
- a tableau which defied easy taxonomical categorization. On Calyer Street I beheld a tetrad of things which I hold near and dear. These being:
- An urban artifact along with…
- a melange of merde…
- in a public pay phone which, in addition to the previous, proffered
- pro-bono services of a highly specialized nature.
For the above-listed reasons I decided to classify this post as Greenpoint Photos Du Jour. Now that we have gotten that out of the way…
let’s take the above morsels of Greenpoint glory in numeric order, shall we?
1.
One container of Organic Girl Spring Mix…
with vodka vinaigrette.
2.
The aftermath of severe gastric distress. (Perhaps due to the consumption of item #1?).
3.
Not one, not two, but three solicitations for not simply free sex but free Garden State sex! As you can see, gentle readers, I have blurred out the telephone number. I did so because I suspect its owner has been— how shall we say— “volunteered” for this endeavor. In closing, it should be noted I did research the telephone number in question. I regret to inform everyone it does not hail from Secaucus. But hey, when it’s free sex in the offing one cannot/should not be too choosy. Thank you, the public pay phone kiosks of Calyer for keeping things real— or at least really interesting— hereabouts.
Happy Sunday, Garden Spotters!
New York Shitty Pay Phone Du Jour: Phone Home
From First Avenue.
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