New York's last remaining phone booth removed

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The last telephone booth that was left standing in

, in the heart of

, has been removed this Monday, according to several local media.

logo visible on the phone

(a blue bell in a circle) and had survived the era of mobile phones, was located at the intersection

.

The booth actually belonged to

, a company that in 2010 bought the remaining 1,300 phone booths from

(the largest telephone provider in New York) to use as advertising media, but all of them disappeared over the years.

In 2015, the

began installing state-of-the-art kiosks (today there are 2,000) that allow New Yorkers to have free Wi-Fi in a nearby radius, charge mobile phone batteries and make calls free of charge, and that was the definitive decline of the cabins.

At the small ceremony held today to commemorate the end of a symbol, the president of the District of Manhattan,

, was not carried away by nostalgia and said that the telephone booths "made us all suffer equally."

He recalled the numerous telephones without a tone, the booths that swallowed coins without giving a signal or the long queues of users waiting to access a free telephone, according to the abc7ny network.

But for those nostalgic, there are still four "vintage" aesthetic places on

, used mostly by tourists or mere "instagramers" who take pictures inside those relics.

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