CONSENT OF DIRECTOR DESIGNEE


     The undersigned, who has been designated for election as a director of
Peoples Telephone Company, Inc., a New York corporation (the "Company"), by UBS
Capital Corporation, hereby (i) consents to being so designated for the position
of director of the Company and to serve as such if elected, and (ii) consents to
being named as a director designee in the Company's Registration Statement on
Form S-4 relating to the proposed exchange offer for the Company's 12 1-4%
Senior Notes due 2002, and all amendments thereto.




Executed this 24th day of July, 1995.

                                               /s/ JEFFREY J. KEENAN
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                                                   Jeffrey J. Keenan