Is this the last public pay phone in a New York City subway station?

It’s always 1993 at this 4 train stop on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. That’s where an above-ground station still sports a pay phone on the mezzanine level. Surprisingly, the phone is in decent condition. The cord hasn’t been ripped from the wall, the coin slot was free of debris, and the area surrounding the phone was relatively clean. The phone poses a mystery. The price of a call is 50 cents, so says to a sticker on the phone. That rate was established in 2001, according to a CNN article, a fifteen-cent hike from the previous rate of 35 cents. Was the MTA really still installing pay phones on subway platforms at the dawn of the 21st century? Not everyone had a cell phone back then, but that certainly seemed to be the way communication was headed. A New York Times story from 2022 looked back on the long history of pay phones in New York, noting that an effort to remove the last street-level pay phones in the city had just been completed. This one isn’t technically street level, and I…