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"Today New York has officially launched its pilot program to bring free public Wi-Fi to payphones across the city. We heard wind of this initiative before, but it's only now bearing fruit. So far, the city has given 10 kiosks the special treatment across three boroughs (soon to be five), with a particular focus on Manhattan.\r\n\r\nThis move follows countless recent initiatives in NYC to modernize and turn the media capital into a startup capital as well. Only yesterday, we covered the city's announcement of NYC Generation Tech, a mentorship program to turn NY high schoolers into innovators. Before that, we've followed the efforts to bring WiFi and cellphone service into our sticky subway stations.\r\n\r\nHere are the 10 locations, from the release:\r\nBrooklyn\r\n\r\n\r\n\tBrooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill:\u00A0545 Albee Square and\u00A02 Smith Street\r\n\r\nQueens\u00A0\r\n\r\n\tAstoria:\u00A030-94 Steinway Street\r\n\r\nManhattan\r\n\r\n\tSoHo:\u00A0402 West Broadway\r\n\tFur-Flower District: 458 Seventh Avenue\r\n\tTheater District-Clinton: 28 West 48th Street\r\n\tGrand Central-United Nations: 410 Madison Avenue\r\n\tMidtown-Clinton: 1609 Broadway and 1790 Broadway\r\n\tUpper West Side: 230 West 95th Street\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFrom what we've seen so far, this can only be a good thing. The more WiFi the better, and with payphones sliding into the fuzzy past of forgotten technology, what better way to reinvigorate these relics than with something people will actually use?\r\n\r\nFeatured image by sboneham"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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