free wi-fi at 5 more public parks in NY

 

Even more park-loving New Yorkers will never need to skip a digital beat. The New York City Parks Department, in partnership with AT&T, is launching free Wi-Fi at five additional city parks Thursday.

AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots have landed at Astoria Park in Queens, Herbert Von King Park and McCarren Park Field House in Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan and Clove Lakes Park in Staten Island.


The continued rollout is part of a five-year digital initiative to bring free Wi-Fi to 26 park locations spanning the five boroughs.

Battery Park, Rumsey Playfield, areas of Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem and Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx all went live with free Wi-Fi over the summer. Additional parks are slated to get the free AT&T hotspots, but the timing remains uncertain. You can expect to see new parks come online in the next several months, AT&T says.

What with Wi-Fi now in parks, rolling out to subways, available in car services and accessible in Times Square, New York is becoming an increasingly wired, mobile metropolis.

Image courtesy of Flickr, Ed Yourdon

Source: Mashable

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