Here’s one of the more innovative uses of an abandoned fire alarm box I’ve seen, at 10th Avenue and West 21st at Guardian Angel Church in Chelsea. As a rule, New Yorkers fill such abandoned boxes with trash, but an artist has planted a gnome with a boombox in this one. For you kids, people used to take these things around and blast them at top volume, to show you were the dominant dog in the pack.
I also had no idea these call boxes were made by Norelco, perhaps more famed for electric razors.
9/15/13