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Brooklyn Subway Stations Won’t Get WiFi For Another Year

October 16, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

(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.)
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Tags: Bushwick, Crime + Community, Greenpoint, internet access, subway stations, wifi, Williamsburg, wireless

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We’re Posting This From East River State Park, Now With Beefed-Up WiFi

August 7, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Between the WiFi that recently came to Rockaway and downtown’s new WiFi-equipped “beach,” we’re living in a golden age of surfing the web while, like, actually surfing. And now there’s this: in recent days, a vast swathe of Jones Beach — including the picnic tables and lounge seating at SmorgasBar — became WiFi equipped, thanks to a program that has also beefed up WiFi at East River State Park.
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De Blasio Brags About Brooklyn Techies, Announces $10M ‘Tech Talent Pipeline’

May 19, 2014 By Daniel Maurer

Not a TED Talk (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Mayor Bill De Blasio kicked off Internet Week near Union Square this morning, but despite the Manhattan location, it was Brooklyn — where companies like Kickstarter have taken root — that he touted as an “extraordinary example of success” in the tech sector.
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Where to Chill Like a Williamsburg Internet Mogul, Per the Google Killers at Karta

August 13, 2013 By Kelly McClure

A sneak peek at Karta.

It’s hard to keep track of everything this city has to offer and it’s hard to effectively brag about all the cool places you go if no one (not even you) knows where those places are. That’s why two Williamsburg residents – Samia Saleem and Dana Steffe – invented Karta, a shareable mapping system that allows users to make and trade maps of all their favorite spots.
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Tags: Bars + Restaurants, blue collar, cafe variety, cafes, coffee shops, dana steffe, gimme! coffee, google maps, internet access, internet garage, karta, modca cafe, oslo coffee roasters, samia saleem, south 4th bar & cafe, sweetleaf, toby's estate coffee, verb cafe, wifi, Williamsburg, workspaces