Overview
- A refurbished payphone outside Pavement Coffeehouse at 736 Commonwealth Ave. near Boston University automatically connects to a lobby phone at Sierra Manor, a senior housing site in Reno.
- Calls are free, and if no one answers in Reno, Boston callers can leave voicemails.
- Matter Neuroscience is recording conversations and plans to post selected highlights on its social media channels.
- The Brookline placement is hosted for one month while organizers evaluate usage to decide on any extension.
- Earlier deployments in San Francisco and Abilene generated more than 250 conversations and 350 voicemails, with this pairing focused on intergenerational connection.