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McCarren Park Gets WiFi, Etsy's Stock To Triple
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Christopher Robbins
Published Oct 3, 2011
Modified Oct 3, 2011
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Vagina tree may be dead, but McCarren Park now has an amenity that will allow parkgoers to gape at genitals anywhere they please: Wi-Fi. The Brooklyn Paper called it "glitch-free" on Friday, so that means less time nursing your $4 cup of coffee and getting the stink eye from your barista when "Congratulations, you've won!" randomly blares out of your laptop.
The new Wi-Fi is part of the city's initiative to provide free internet service—courtesy of AT&T (we still hate you)—to 20 different parks across the five boroughs. Until now, Brooklyn had been left behind. “I would never use the Internet in a park—that’s what the office is for,” one loafing parkgoer told the paper. “You can’t be connected all the time.” Unfortunately, while doing the interview off the grid, he missed a new job opportunity, his girlfriend broken up with him on Twitter, and he had absolutely no idea about Tupac's new sex tape.
For a list of all the parks that will eventually have Wi-Fi (for a few years anyway) go here.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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