From the weekly conversation between New York Times columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, this week headlined “America Is Under the Gun”:
Gail Collins: Bret, did you hear that what the city billed as “the final New York City public pay telephone” was just whisked away? Brings back memories of when I first moved to New York back in the ’80s. When I got out of the subway after work, I’d leap into a phone booth right there on the corner, slam the door shut and call my husband to come and walk me home. It was just a block! But we were so paranoid about crime back then . …