A new film, premiering at the 50th annual Academy Award-Qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival this month, ...

Due largely to the overwhelming dominance of mobile phones, payphones are a sometimes overlooked relic from the 90’s and earlier eras. While seldom seen out in the wild these days, they can however ...

In smog-darkened days and streetlight lit nights, every person who’s ever put a quarter in the slot and a public pay phone receiver to their ear probably has their own story to tell, though chances ...

Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is more of a museum piece than a functional object. So it’s fitting that the phone immediately made its ...

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier. The gist is that every time someone made a collect call, the company made money by being ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...