Interactive Telephone Booths Tell Immigrant Stories In New York City

An art installation named ‘Once Upon a Place’ lets listeners pick up a phone inside an old New York City phone booth and hear immigration stories. 

 

 

Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi and Times Square Arts introduced the interactive art installation “Once Upon a Place,” which allows participants to listen to the stories of immigrants who moved to New York through the receivers of old pay phones - once a common sight on city streets. 

 

 

Mojadidi came up with the idea when he heard that the phone booths were being removed.