LinkNYC is the City’s program to provide free high-speed Wi-Fi, nationwide calling, a dedicated 911 button, charging ports for mobile devices, and access to social services. The City has recently begun to roll out a new and improved design of the original LinkNYC kiosk: Link5G. This new design will provide all of the amenities of LinkNYC kiosks, with the added benefit of 4G and 5G connectivity to enhance mobile telecommunications networks. This dataset lists proposed new locations for LinkNYC kiosks that are currently open for public comment.

LinkNYC is replacing the City’s outdated public telephones with a network of kiosks that provide free high-speed Wi-Fi, nationwide calling, a dedicated 911 button, charging ports for mobile devices, and access to selected websites. This dataset lists proposed new locations for LinkNYC kiosk that are currently open for public comment. The dataset does not include payphones that are being replaced by Links.

This dataset provides the most current listing of LinkNYC Kiosks, their location, and the status of the Link’s wifi, tablet, and phone.

This dataset provides the most current listing of LinkNYC Kiosks, their location, and the status of the Link’s wifi, tablet, and phone.

Wi-Fi in Public Space (Open Space) is an analysis of the ‘NYC Wi-Fi Hotspot Locations’ OpenData records focused on the use of Wi-Fi in open spaces (in public parks and on Governors Island).

This dataset provides a historical listing of LinkNYC Kiosks, their location, and the status of the Link’s wifi, tablet, and phone. To view the current days status on it own, visit the LinkNYC Kiosk Status dataset at the following link (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/LinkNYC-Kiosk-Status/n6c5-95xh)
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LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communications network that will bring the fastest available free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers, small businesses, and visitors. Built at no cost to taxpayers, the five-borough LinkNYC network will, through advertising proceeds, generate more than $500 million in revenue for the City over the initiative’s first 12 years. Granted a franchise by the City in 2014, CityBridge will administer construction of the LinkNYC network.
By replacing the aging network of public pay telephones with state-of-the-art Links, CityBridge will transform the physical streetscape, enhance New Yorkers’ access to information, and create new local jobs for the development, servicing and maintenance of the structures.

The different providers in New York City of Public Wi-Fi at locations or “Hotspots” distributed across the city, not including service provided on buses or ferries.

The Public Wi-Fi in Pedestrian Corridors and Public Computer Centers dataset is an analysis of Public Wi-Fi hotspots in pedestrian corridors (zones of commercial activity in each neighborhood that attract the greatest numbers of people and local businesses) and Public Wi-Fi hotspots in the City's public computer centers.