There's almost no part of the city that's more than two blocks away from one of the 2,040 antique red iron boxes that use telegraph technology, and almost all carrying the name of the city's ...

Team 5 Investigates has discovered even though these hard-wired pull boxes are rarely used, the city pays $1.7 million a year to keep the system up and running.

While the use of emergency street phones in cities has declined in the past century, you can still find abandoned, cast-iron call boxes around DC. Thanks to the DowntownDC Business Improvement ...