We’re very excited to announce the availability of our newest hotspot in Wagner Park at the south end of Battery Park City. This hotspot is a partnership with the Battery Park City Authority, and we hope will be just the first of multiple hotspots throughout Battery Park City.
Take a trip down to Wagner Park! It [...]

[ June 28, 2006; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 7:15pm

Bway.net
568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner
Suite 404
New York, NY 10012
(lobby sign-in required)

Agenda
NYCwireless Parks 2006 — a round-up of our various projects in process and completed, including:

Brooklyn Bridge Park
Stuyvesant Cove Park
Madison Square Park
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

Also updates on SuperNode, FON, lots more…

[ May 22, 2006; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] We will be installing of the Brooklyn Bridge Park on this Monday, May 22 at 5:30pm. Please email me (dana at nycwireless.net) directly if you are interested in participating. We will be installing the hotspot plus 2 antennas, doing some spectrum analysis, and also checking the coverage of the hotspot in the park.

We need [...]

Here are some news stories from yesterday’s hearing on the NYC Parks Department and their plans for hotspots.
New York Times: Deadline Set for Wireless Internet in Parks
NYCwireless, a nonprofit group that did the technical work for those projects, has also set up networks at Union Square, Tompkins Square and Stuyvesant Cove Parks, and is [...]

also published on Wireless Community blog
The New York Daily News published a poorly researched article today about new Wi-Fi hotspots in New York City. They fail to mention the dozen or so parks that NYCwireless has already helped “light up”. Here’s the letter I have written to the newspaper in response:
The article “Wi-Fi umbrella [...]

For those of you who were unable to attend this week’s meeting, I wanted to provide brief updates on some projects:
New York Done Right
NYCwireless is collaborating with Open Resource Group to launch a site called New York Done Right. Its basically an organizational tool where we can work through projects and fund-raise, and is [...]