Upcoming WiFi Spots in City Parks

Wi-Fi Salon is installing Wi-Fi into 10 city parks over the next few months. Central Park will have eight hot spots (including the zoo, Delacorte Theater, and Boathouse), as will Orchard Beach, Flushing Meadows, Van Cortlandt, Pelham Bay, Prospect, Riverside, Union Square, and Washington Square Parks. The Daily News says that Battery Park's hotspot, near Battery Gardens, is already running and that Wi-Fi Salon is paying the Parks Department for the right to install the network, hoping to encourage people to join its IP phone service. Whatever the reason, Gothamist can only say hurrah, because if there's one blogging goal we have, it's to live-blog monkeys throwing poo at us from the Central Park Zoo.

Here's a list of free WiFi spots in the city from WiFI Free Spot and some articles from NYC Wireless.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 13, 2005 8:34 AM

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Dana Spiegel

NYCwireless has already helped to put free public hotspots in some of these hotspots. You can read more here at my blog:

http://www.wirelesscommunity.info

You can find more free hotspots here:

http://www.nycwireless.net

keith

Even better -- you can go on a date, then do blog updates about how the date is going while you are still on it. Your date can, of course, respond to you via comments or start his/her own blog. And you need to engage in real time conversation -- well that's what IM is for.

-Keith

Neil Epstein

Great. Now I can go on a picnic date with a woman and we can just sit there blogging the whole time.

Ben

This is a listing of BARS that have WiFi...

S.D.

Free WiFi is good, but can be a little bit Dangerous.

I hope people have personal firewalls on their laptops and don't check Email over unencrypted WiFi...