Rain claims another payphone

W 55th St & 9th Ave

You’d think after months of endless snow, this evening’s rain wouldn’t phase drivers, but apparently you’d be wrong. At some point tonight, it looks like a car lost control on 9th Ave and hit a phone booth. It doesn’t look like it was a major accident, or that there were any injuries, so the only victims were the payphones:

A smashed phone booth

The police and huge roped-​off area drew a small crowd:

A smashed phone booth
A smashed phone booth

Just last month another phone booth two streets down from this one met a similar fate (we only cover the important news, clearly). Conspiracy? That one was surprisingly reinstalled though, so there’s hope for this latest one still.