In this month's The New Yorker, Raffi Katchadourian takes readers into the world of Verizon's iconic art deco skyscraper in southern Manhattan via the photography of Chris Payne. The article and photos capture what anyone in telecom already knows: the infrastructure of decades past is fading into history books, often colossal and incredibly complex architectures replaced by computers.
Naturally Manhattan held a particularly awe-inspiring hub from which POTS was delivered to nearly a quarter of a million people. The old telephone switches are gone now and 20 floors will soon be converted into luxury apartments.
