Raw Tapes – New York Preservation – Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes

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Tape Number	FLAC	MP3	Year Recorded	Description
0001	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1978	212-885 City Island side A 212-989 West 18th #1 Crossbar Side B “Quick Save” quickly getting 989 on tape before pay phones converted to ESS
0002A	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1978	Side A – JUdson 6 #1 Crossbar (West 50th Street Manhattan)
0002B	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1978	Side B – JUdson 6 #1 Crossbar (West 50th Street Manhattan)
0003Y	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1977	Calls from 212-628 East 79th Street #5 crossbar calling Manhattan & Bronx trying to get calls to go through York and Amsterdam tandems
0008	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Nov 1976	BUckminster 4 Panel in Brooklyn 212-789 #1 Crossbar in Brooklyn 212-656 #1 Crossbar in Jersey City
0009	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jun/Jul 1976	Farmingdale Tape 1. Calls made from Bill’s house in Farmingdale. (More on Tape 0083.)
0010	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jun/Jul 1976	Farmingdale Tape 3. Some from Bill’s line, some from Bill’s mother’s line. (More on Tape 0143.)
0022	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1977	Calling the Tremont sector tandem from 628 East 79th Street #5 Crossbar
0024	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jan 1976	Ben playing with Vesey Tandem 2 via Queens Tandem Queens Tandem & Broadway reroutes Far Rockaway & Hollis 7A announcements
0027A	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Late 1975 / Early 1976	Side A (Version 2) Queens & Richmond Hill sectors via Kingston #5 Crossbar tandem Busy Signal “exchequer” in Whitestone ESS “Jucing” off RP trunks “Jucing” off Richmond Hill tandem
0027B	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Late 1975 / Early 1976	NYC via White Plains 1 tandem & Kingston Crossbar #5 tandem
0030	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Oct 1976	Jamaica (Queens) 212-526 #1 Crossbar Laurelton (Queens) 212-276 #5 Crossbar
0041	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	June 1977	West 73rd Street 5XB to NYC Panels dialed as 212+ via Midtown Tandem
0042Y	FLAC	MP3	June 1977	Calls from West 73rd Street 5XB Clanging noise intra-office call to 1XB Panel via Midtown tandem: West 73rd Street Area Code 914 271 through 428 via Bronx
0042Z	FLAC	MP3	June 1977	West 73rd Street 5XB calling Hempstead Tandem 1 Centrex codes 574, 531, 560 and 299 via N1 carrier Northern New Jersey Area Code 201 941 through 950 via Vesey Tandem 1
0047 (Side A)	FLAC	MP3	1975	Historic tandem recordings fron NA tandems – intercepting 2nd Ave central office fire, Brooklyn 212-377 panel during ANI sender failure
0047 (Side B)	FLAC	MP3	1975	St. Louis MIS test numbers, NY PSC test numbers, Broadway 4A recordings for 2nd Ave. central office fire, southern California call repair service diverters.
0071Y	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1975	NY Telephone Newswire (Farmingdale ESS); NYC calls MFed into Deer Park tandems
0071Z	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1975	Ben calling from Hempsted 516-485 #5 crossbar, calling 311 and Lynbrook #5 crossbars; East 97th street #1 crossbar 212-876 calling Albmarle Road office selector tandem area in Brooklyn.
0083	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jun/Jul 1976	Farmingdale 5XBs Tape 2 (More on Tape 0010)
0138	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1978?	Staten Island South 212-984 #5 Crossbar
0159Y	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Early 1976	Staten Island New Dorp 212-351 #5 crossbar
0164A	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1975	212-923 panel (west 176th street Manhattan); Manhattan intercept operator talking to friend; Minneapolis AIS special announcement 97 (noisy); Bell System answering machine in Long Beach repair bureau; Tennessee office code (901-239) that works as direct access to Corinth MS toll center
0164B	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1975	Hempsted #1 Crossbar; Lynbrook #5 crossbar; Use of the South Hampton SD (repair service diverter); sounds from within the Cabot, VT Contel step CDO, #1 Step in Barry, VT, Bell step CDO with new tones in Plainfield, VT; Contel Step in Marshfield, VT.
0166	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1978	FIeldstone-7 #1 Crossbar (Floral Park) serving Queens
0201A	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Bronx 212-588 #1 crossbar Staten Island 212-984 #5XB
0201B	FLAC	MP3	1977 or 1978	More Staten Island South 212-984 #5 crossbar & Staten Island New Dorp 212-351 #5 crossbar
0228	FLAC	MP3	Jan 1978	Grand Concourse Bronx #1 XB (212-294) Atlanta AIS reports Long distance rejecting radio monitoring device
0246	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1980	Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC over N1 (and probably some ON) carrier: Manhattan-Bronx via York Tandem; Brooklyn-Queens border area via Bushwick tandem
0260	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1980	Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC over N1 carrier: Brooklyn-Queens border area via Bushwick tandem; Centrex via Mount Vernon XBT to Vesey tandem 2
0274	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Mid 1977	LD calls to New Jersey 609 NPA from 628 #5 crossbar via NY 7, A few local calls from 628 #5 crossbar, Intra-office calling between SChuyler 4 & TRafalgar 7 lines in the W73 Street Panel
0310 & 0312	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Unknown	Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0314	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Aug 1976 to Spring 1977	Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0316	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Late 1976 or early 1977	Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0320	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1977	West 73rd Street 5XB calling Manhattan Panels and Area Code 914 (codes 651 through 658) via Bronx
0376	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	1980	Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls New Jersey via N3 carrier to Newark-Jersey tandem 2, then NYC via N1 to York tandem.
0385	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	August 1977	Staten Island South 212-984 #5 Crossbar (continued from Tape 0138)
0407	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1977	West 73rd Street 5XB calling New Jersey Area Code 201 (codes 344 through 353) via Vesey Tandem 3 Calls to Panels from East 79th Street 5XB
0417A	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	1978	Manhattan West 50th JUdson-6 #1 Crossbar
0417B	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Recordings from West 50th Judson-6 212-586 #1 Crossbar Ringback circuit from as dialed Bronx Tratman Ave #1 Crossbar 212-892 Mount Vernon #1 Crossbar 914-664
0426A	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	1976 or 1977	Yonkers 914-476 #5 Crossbar made by Ben from Bruce’s house (Side 1)
0426B	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	1976 or 1977	Yonkers 914-476 #5 Crossbar made by Ben from Bruce’s house (Side 2)
0434	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	June 1977	West 73rd Street 5XB calling Area Code 914 (codes 256 through 266) via Bronx West 73rd Street Panel calling Area Code 201 (codes 287 through 289) via Vesey Tandem 3 Panels via Midtown Tandem
0464	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar
0483	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Unknown	Ben calling 212-390 (Staten Island DID code) from Bell Harbor central office Calling 212-923 buzzers from Ben’s house 212-326 Fairview Panel
0489	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Unknown	Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC Centrex over N1 and N3 carrier: Vesey tandem 2 via Mount Vernon XBTs N1; Amsterdam tandem 2 & Tenth Avenue tandem 1 via Mount Vernon’s N3, Bushwick tandem via direct N1, plus some T-carrier to various Centrex.
0640	Part 1Part 2 Part 1 (alt mix) Part 2 (alt mix)	Part 1Part 2 Part 1 (alt mix) Part 2 (alt mix)	Mid 1977 & May 1982	Mid 1977 Intra-office calling between TRafalgar 7 & SChuyler 4 lines in the West 73rd Street PanelNumber ID on “311” instead of “958” from TR 7 Panel. May 1982 LD calls to the last Panel in Newark NJ from an Atlanta #1ESS (Two mixes are provided, listen to description on Part 1)
0650	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1977	Calls from West 73rd Street 5XB NYC Panels via Midtown tandem Northern NJ Area Code 201 (codes 961 through 998) via Vesey Tandem 1 Eastern Suffolk Area Code 516-325 via Bronx to South Hampton XBT
0672A	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Manhattan Thayer Street 212-569 #1 Crossbar (Side 1)
0672B	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Manhattan Thayer Street 212-569 #1 Crossbar (Side 1)
0676	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar, 411 from West 73rd Panel 212-877 during a snow emergency, Long Island City #1 Crossbar 212-392
0687A	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Trapman Ave. (212-892) and Grand Concourse (212-294) Bronx #1 XB
0687B	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Jan 1978	Grand Concourse (212-294) Bronx #1 XB
0691B	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan 1978	Manhattan 212-697 East 37th #1 Crossbar Brooklyn 212-856 #1 Crossbar Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar
0692A	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	Manhattan 212-787 #1 Crossbar Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar (Side A)
0692B	Part 1Part 2	Part 1Part 2	Jan/Feb 1978	914-664 Mount Vernon #1 Crossbar (Side B)
0817	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1Part 2	March 1974	Ben’s Centrex Tape
0914	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	1974	New York Step by Step PBX recordings
GBM28-1-01	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Middle and late 1975	Conversation with Bill New Garden City ESS Westbury 997 Sickly sounding loop checker test (moved to Garden City) Long Beach balance test loop around Deer Park 677 Offical 33 Loop around (with Bill) 425 Broadstreet 1XB to Bronx Intercept 5XB Inter marker group call Elaron and SD call diverters
GBM28-3-03	FLAC	MP3	Late 1975 or early 1976	Talking on 923 buzzer with Ben via Kingston 5XB Tandem to Borough tandem route
GBM39-1	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Late 1976 or early 1977	NYC Centrex codes 920, 270, 780, 340, and 553. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.
GBM39-2	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Late 1976 or early 1977	NYC Centrex codes 553, 558, 551, 870, and 360. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.
GBM39-3&4	Part 1 Part 2	Part 1 Part 2	Late 1976 or early 1977	NYC Centrex codes 360, 530, 559, 598, and 960. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.