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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, who was working in the next room of his lab in Boston.
“Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you,” Bell said.
On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio, surrounded by a tech-savvy crowd, made the city’s first official phone call from a new communications network which will be replacing more than 7,500 pay phones across the five boroughs.