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Hanging up on pay phones?
As possibly last rotary is pulled, pay phone biz keeps sinking, despite fiscal promise from curbside ads
The rotary pay phone at the D'Agastinos supermarket in Murray Hill remarkably still functioned, waiting patiently for quarters to feed its coin slot and fingers to turn its dial. But it also was treated like a museum piece: Looked at with curiosity but never touched.
So inevitably, like thousands of its predecessors, the phone was wrested from its longtime perch a few weeks ago and replaced...
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