Downtown Alliance offering wireless network 'new user days'.The Downtown Alliance and NYCwireless announced a series of "new user days" for the Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North Wireless Network from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. in City Hall Park on July 25, and in Bowling Green Bowling Green. 1 City (1990 pop. 40,641), seat of Warren co., S Ky., on the Barren River; inc. 1812. It is a shipping and marketing center for an area producing tobacco, corn, livestock, and dairy items. Park on August 1 and August 8. The two hotspots have been the most popular nodes on the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network. The free sessions, hosted by experts in wireless computing, will provide step-by-step instructions on how to access the free wireless hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. in Lower Manhattan. The volunteer instructors from NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Wireless will be on hand with laptops to demonstrate how the service works, and to answer questions from anyone who brings their own laptop. Last week, 273 people accessed the Internet wirelessly using the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network. Bowling Green and City Hall Park boasted the largest number of wireless users per day at 23. To date, 9,200 people have accessed the Downtown Alliance's web site about the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network. "New User Days will provide an interactive way to introduce people to this great new service available in Lower Manhattan," said Shirley Jaffe Shirley Jaffe, abstract painter and sculptor, was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1925 and educated at Cooper Union in New York City. She moved to Paris in 1949 as a young painter and has carried on her career primarily in France, although she returns regularly to the United States , vice president of economic development for the Downtown Alliance. "Our goal is to encourage all workers, residents, and visitors Downtown to take advantage of this unique amenity." "Through illustration and one-on-one instruction, the New User Days will help people appreciate the convenience of wireless networks and learn exactly how to take advantage of them," said Jordan Schuster, managing director of NYC Wireless. The Lower Manhattan Wireless Network, which is available free of charge at six different strategically-located open spaces, enables Lower Manhattan residents, workers and visitors to access the internet wirelessly and at high-speeds from laptops and PDAs. The network is the first and most ambitious initiative of its kind in the nation. The network includes hot spots at the following locations: Bowling Green, Vietnam Veterans Plaza on Water Street; Rector Park in Battery Park City; Liberty Plaza, Broadway and Liberty Street; South Street Seaport The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is usually considered a historical district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District. , and City Hall Park. The Lower Manhattan Wireless Network provides significant community-building benefits, enabling users to access timely information about the surrounding area such as the day's events, proximate proximate /prox·i·mate/ (prok´si-mit) immediate or nearest. prox·i·mate adj. Closely related in space, time, or order; very near; proximal. proximate immediate; nearest. retailers, and neighborhood attractions. The Downtown Alliance manages the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Business Improvement District (BID). The Alliance serves an area roughly from City Hall to the Battery, from the East River to West Street, for which it provides supplemental sanitation and security, economic development, streetscape street·scape n. 1. An artistic representation of a street. 2. Surroundings composed of streets: the urban streetscape. and transportation improvements, marketing and enhanced tourist services. NYCwireless www.nycwireless.net is a non-profit volunteer organization that assists communities throughout the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. in planning and implementing local wireless networks using the deregulated spectrum. |
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