New York disables its last toll booth

New York City on Monday (23) disconnected its last public currency booth, the popular “Phone Booth”, which had been replaced for several years. WiFi Free.

However, Superman fans can be sure: Manhattan will have four closed phone booths in which journalist Clark Kent will “enter” as a superhero.

This Monday morning, New York put an end to a myth that has come from decades of popular culture in comics, photography, film and television.

In the presence of journalists, city officials and Manhattan Mayor Mark Levine saw the last “booth” (booth) with two phones being removed from the top of a truck, which had been located in the 7th corner for several years. Avenue and 50th Street, in the center of the Big Apple, are marked with the blue bell symbol of the telecommunications company Bell System.

“The celebrity’s last answer – or is it a shame? – NYC phone went here today. I’m not going to miss your dial tones, but I have to admit I had a nostalgia in my stomach for watching him leave,” Mark wrote. Levine on Twitter.

The Democrat said that once in a while these phones do not miss working days.

As cell phones became popular, public phones began to disappear from the New York landscape in the early 2000s, and it accelerated from 2010 with the explosion of smartphones, “smartphones”.

Beginning in 2015, Manhattan accelerated the installation of thousands of LinkNYC endpoints that offer free Wi-Fi and local calls. These new access points will be gradually connected to the network 5G.

“It’s really the end of an era, but we believe it’s the beginning of a new era with more equal access to technology,” Levine said, with the poor security of Upper Manhattan neighborhoods, especially Harlem, the telephone and the Internet. Networks.

According to local media, Manhattan will retain four old telephone booths on West End Avenue, 66th, 90th, 100th and 101st streets in the Upper West.