page_title: Verizon New York
section_title: Infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Verizon New York / Infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: belltelephonemag13amerrich (find matches) Title: Bell telephone magazine Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept Subjects: Telephone Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.) Contributing Library: Prelinger Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ONE OF THE MOST RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Paris of New York City and Metropolitan New Jersey and their environs. Tliis photograph, showing Americas largest citv. greatest population center, /i area, was taken by Capt. Albert W. Stevens at an altitude of 26,000 feet from an Army airplane piloted by Lieut. C. D. Mc.illister, and represents c development of aerial infra-red photography. It kos originally published a: a supplement to the National Geograpliic Magazine, and is ri Information Division of the .irmy Air Corps. iremosl port, and most c omplex telephon e service in achievemrnt b\ the Ar ny Air Corps i 1 tfie produced here by permiss ion of the Text Appearing After Image: CENTRAL OFFICES IN PART OF NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITYThe black dots on this map. which follows in outline the aerial photograph on the reverse of this page, represent the 92 locations of central offices or groups of offices serving that part of the Neii. York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area shown in the photograph. The numeral on each dot indicates the number of central office designations under which the telephones served from each point aregrouped. The total of such designations shown here is 225. In the general metropolitan service area as a whole there are 37S central offices, serving approximately 2,255,000 telephones, under 478 designations reeivwick Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The New York Telephone Company was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company.
context_section_description: The company went underground in the 1920s, creating expensive new outside plant that fixed its geometry for the century to come. New cable ducts brought more reliable service to customers. They converged at approximately twenty wire centers, which were connected by larger trunk cable ducts running along the East and West Sides of Manhattan. The locations were one to two miles apart, close to concentrations of office workers while avoiding high prices for land. At each wire center a new central office arose to house telephone switchboards, panel switches and other inside plant, along with technicians, clerks, operators, and other workers. The largest of these was also the corporate headquarters, at 140 West Street on the Lower West Side, about a half mile from AT&T headquarters at 195 Broadway.
  The Manhattan and Bronx parts of the underground system are owned by the Empire City Subway Company subsidiary. Similar construction, on a smaller scale, went on in Brooklyn, Buffalo and other urban areas. Suburban and rural service also expanded, mostly with aerial cable or open wire plant and Strowger switches.
caption: Exchange locations, 1934
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