My favorite spot to work in! Great working atmosphere with excellent wifi. Plenty of seats and outlets to charge your computer! Food is great. The only con is that they close at 5pm. Lovely and huge spot with many outlets. Very quiet. Many tables, sofas and chairs. Nice views. You have to sign in on a sheet of paper. Once you enter, go upstairs. Very cool, modern and spacious spot. Nice vibe and good wifi. Very cool, modern and spacious place, not usually that crowded.
Not many outlets, just a few. Many seats but can be a bit crowded close to NYU…. Not very clean…. Only 6 small tables and a bigger one not that big. Some tables outside. Many outlets inside only. One of my favorites! Very cool spot in the heart of West Village. Plenty of outlets and great working vibe. Many seats available. Around 4 pair of outlets in the first tables you see entering to the left. Size is ok, not big but not tiny. Crowded corner. About 5 small tables and a few stools. Not usually crowded.
Cool place with an awesome working vibe and excellent wifi. Shared tables, sofas and many outlets available. Great for groups since you have many big tables available. Make sure, once you enter the coffee shop, to go through the second door that leads you to the huge place inside. Dark-ish place. Keep in mind that some tables have the outlets already inserted on the side. Spacious but only some outlets. Not all the tables have an outlet nearby.
Not bad if you need to stay in the area. Try to grab a table entering to the right, that those have outlets. Very crowded! Plenty of outlets and seats but again: crowded.
Many office people go there for their breakfast, lunch and afternoon break, and also after-office hours. Can be a bit crowded. Place is ok.
Spacious place with many seats and outlets. Very nice place and pretty big compared to other coffee shops in the area. Many outlets and seats. More space at the back of the shop! Great food and excellent wifi.
Small place, but with some electrical outlets. It could theoretically mean free Internet for thousands of New Yorkers who happen to live on the first and second floors of a building near a Link. Small businesses, too, may particularly benefit from free Internet, according to city officials.
The potential to lower that 3. According to the city's Center for Economic Opportunity, You need Internet access to participate in the modern economy, because "people who don't have it are shut out," she said on a call from outside Bronx High School of Science her alma mater , where she had just finished serving as a judge for a student hardware competition.
Tantoco, who was appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to the newly created chief technology officer position in September with the mission of making "the most technology-friendly and innovation-driven city in the world," has been a key player in getting LinkNYC off the ground. Her mission in achieving free Internet can be summed up in a single sentence: Create a more equitable playing field through technology for everyone living in and visiting New York.
With ad revenue funding the entire LinkNYC initiative over the next 12 years, the city hopes that the digital advertising on the structures themselves will help spur innovation and social equity.
At the start of the project, there will be six advertisers over four weeks, but after a few months when data on usage is collected, Etherington said companies will eventually be able to conduct smaller, more targeted ad buys for a lower price tag.
It's a setup that's a result of a public-private partnership between the city and private businesses, which Etherington calls a strategy unlike any other municipality's trying to offer free public Internet. Advertisers will eventually be able to buy ads on Links, which each have a inch digital screen, in specific neighborhoods, on specific streets, at specific times, rather than having to advertise on the entire network throughout the five boroughs.
City officials say that the link structures will pay for themselves, not only because they will be self-sustaining from a business sense, but because it will spur a more informed community. Of course these structures aren't intended to be a panacea for Wi-Fi in New York. But it's certainly a first step While millions of people still lack Internet access, particularly in poorer neighborhoods, the people behind LinkNYC say the payphone upgrade represents the city's commitment to eradicating the digital divide.
The long-term goal, one championed by de Blasio, is for every resident and business to have access to affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband service by Tantoco and her team helped craft the privacy policy associated with the Wi-Fi hotspots, enforcing end-to-end encryption -- which scrambles information so only the sender and intended receiver, and no one in between, can read it -- using technology called "Hotspot 2.
What does that mean for you? To join the LinkNYC network you'll need to give up your email address and username and create a password. So the network will know a fraction of what your home Internet provider or wireless carrier knows. To prevent one device from being able to see any other device, the network will block peer-to-peer communication once a device is on the network.
Therefore, a wireless device will only be able to access the Internet as opposed to other users' devices, which will prevent the spread of viruses from one computer to another and stop a hacker from being able to attack another computer or device on the network, said Sbordone. In fact, according to Etherington, LinkNYC will be the only free public Wi-Fi in the world to have and mandate that level of end-to-end encryption throughout the network.
Still, the familiar objection to public Wi-Fi largely centers on the ability among hackers to defeat security and encryption settings, security experts say. Etherington acknowledges the validity of these critics. But we don't have that level of information in the first place," Etherington said of LinkNYC's encryption policy, which Tantoco said will discourage hackers from hanging around LinkNYC sites in the first place.
The arrival of LinkNYC comes despite a turbulent history of municipal Wi-Fi projects, with cities including New York, Philadelphia and dozens others throughout the US trying -- and failing -- to develop such technology and keep it running. In , for example, San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom declared: "We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless-internet service.
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