Even amid the cacophony of Times Square, the sounds of telephones ringing every seven to nine minutes are hard to miss. No, it’s not coming from your pocket or your purse, and no, you’re not imagining things.

The source of the calls — and of the curiosity of passers-by — is three phone booths in Duffy Square, between 45th and 47th Streets. Yes, phone booths: They may be reminiscent of a yesteryear largely confined to the movies, but they are now back for public use.

Well, sort of.

Salvaged from LinkNYC, the city program replacing pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks, the booths are part of the latest installation from Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance. The project, “Once Upon a Place,” by Aman Mojadidi and on view through Sept. 5, examines the immigrant experience through oral histories presented in the form of phone calls, broadly touching on themes of belonging and displacement.