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heyre planted on sidewalks, bolted to buildings, but many of them serve no
purpose. At street corner after street corner, receivers have been ripped off
the wire; in one, a stone was jammed into the coin release slot. What vandals
arent destroying, nature is slowly claiming with rust. Theyre like sculp-
tures, relics. Theres one up there, but it doesnt work, said Gary Brewington,
a crossing guard for the Asbury Park school district, pointing to a public pay phone be-
tween Summerfield and Bangs avenues on Main Street. Once the only way to make a
call on the street, pay phones are now a casualty of the cellphone era. Brewington esti-
WHOSE
PAY
PHONE
IS THIS?
Victims of the
cellphone era,
phones still useful
in emergencies
BRIAN JOHNSTON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A shell that once held a pay phone sits along Main Street in Asbury Park.
DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP
See PHONES, Page A4
Go to APP.com to see a video about
pay phones at the Jersey Shore.
The piece of history in Philip Mur-
phys Red Bank office is small in size it
would fit nicely in his hand but enor-
mous in significance.
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary
of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the for-
mer U.S. ambassador to Germany owns
a chunk. He got it from a German whose
father was forced to build the wall in 1961.
He said, I want you to know I give this to you with
heavy significance, Murphy recalled.
No further explanation was needed. Murphy served
two tours in Germany, first as head of Goldman Sachs
Frankfurt office from 1993 to 1997, then as ambassador
from 2009 to 2013. His experience in Deutschland gives
him special perspective on that earth-shattering event
a quarter-century ago.
Ive said 1989 was one of the most important years
in our modern history, he said. There was Tiananmen
Square and the fall of the wall several months later. You
had two examples: One way you hope society goes, and
one way you hope society does not.
In todays world there seem to be so many Tianen-
Middletown man
reflects on fall
of Berlin Wall
JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER
RUSS DESANTIS/CORRESPONDENT
Philip Murphy of Middletown poses in his office in Red Bank
on Thursday with a piece of the Berlin Wall. Murphy was U.S.
ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013.
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MONDAY 11.03.14
VOLUME 135
NUMBER 263
SINCE 1879
ADVICE C4
BUSINESS A8
CLASSIFIED C6
COMICS C5
LOCAL A3
LOTTERIES A2
OBITUARIES A9
OPINION A11
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Anurse who successfully fought a Maine state quar-
antine for health care workers who have treated Ebola
patients said she had no option but to challenge how
medical professionals were being treated and, on a
morning news show, took another shot at Gov. Chris
Christie, who first quarantined her in Newark.
Appearing via Skype on NBCs Meet the Press, Ka-
ci Hickox told host Chuck Todd: I just read an op-ed by
Bill Fagey (a former CDC head) today, and he said, you
know, when Governor Christie stated that it was an
abundance of caution, which is he is reasoning for
putting health care workers in quarantine for three
weeks it was really an abundance of politics.
Hickoxs quarantine for several days in a tent at Uni-
versity Hospital in Newark upon her arrival back in the
U.S. and, after she was allowed to return to Maine,
the restrictions imposed on her there led humanitar-
ian groups, the White House and many scientists to
warn that automatically quarantining medical workers
could discourage volunteers from going to West Africa,
where nearly 5,000 people have died from Ebola.
Hickox also said in an interview with the Maine Sun-
day Telegram that she was fighting for the rights of oth-
Nurse says
quarantine
politics,
not caution
Hickox calls out Christie
on Meet the Press
See NURSE, Page A5
ASSOCIATED PRESS
See WALL, Page A5
JETS SUFFER
EIGHTH LOSS
IN A ROW D1
HOW WOULD CHANGE IN CONGRESS
IMPACT NEW JERSEY CLOUT? A7