With the rise of mobile phones over the past decade , pay phones have been disappearing . But thanks to some new initiatives , pay phones did not fade from the landscape . `` I had n't really used a pay phone since I was 14 , before I got a cell phone . In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy , many New York relied on pay phones . A new NYC initiative aimed to rejuvenate the city 's old public pay phones .
With the rise of mobile phones over the past decade , pay phones have been disappearing . But thanks to some new initiatives , pay phones did not fade from the landscape . In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy , many New York relied on pay phones . A new NYC initiative aimed to rejuvenate the city 's old public pay phones .