This was the first of two heavily defaced Verizon trailers locked to street furniture that I saw today. Anyone know what they are?
Day 71
What has two wheels and is locked to a bike rack?
March 10th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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Looks like a portable generator/compressor trailer, but not sure why Verizon would need one…
Actually I know these a little too well–they are mobile phone banks Verizon set up after september 11th. A lot of the infrastructure systems got wonky below Canal street, sometimes our landline wouldn’t work, and this is before everyone carried a cellphone. Verizon wheeled these to popular intersections for the neighborhood to use free of charge. Now being eleven at the time, my biggest memory of these things was prank calling them from my friends window and waiting for passerbys to pick up. Good times.
Actually I think Verizon just puts extra equipment (cables, etc.) in there for the technicians who work nearby from time to time. It’s a storage box, in a nutshell. That’s the case, at least, with the one that’s located on 55th St. between 3rd Ave. and Lexington Ave.