(Photo: Natalie Rinn)
Governor Cuomo — fresh off of plugging his new book — announced today that 40 more NYC subway stations have been equipped with wifi, bringing the grand total to 76. Unfortunately for the iPhone-happy denizens of Brooklyn, none of those stations are in their borough, and it’ll be at least another year till G train riders can live the dream of streaming Jonathan Toubin’s groovy new Halloween mix in lieu of listening to the pitter-patter of track rats. (Hey, in the meantime you can always grin and bear that album U2 put onto your iTunes.)
Phase 2 of the rollout (now mostly complete) included 29 stations in Queens and 11 in Manhattan, and the next phase will include stations in Queens, Lower Manhattan, West Harlem and Washington Heights. A rep for Transit Wireless, which is building the network, told us the Brooklyn rollout will be spread out between Phases 5, 6 and 7, beginning next fall. Eventually all 277 stations will be wired, but for now Brooklynites can only look at the wifi equipped stations and be jelly.