New York City parks go wireless.Central Park will be getting wireless Internet this month as the first part of a larger plan to expand free Internet in parks throughout the city. Three of the city's other large parks--Prospect Park, Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a large urban park in The Bronx, New York. It has an area of 1,146 acres (4.6 km²), making it the third largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park and Flushing Meadows Park. It is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. and Flushing Flushing, part of Queens, New York City, United States Flushing, former village, now in N Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; chartered 1645, inc. into Greater New York City with Queens in 1898. Meadows-Corona Park--will have wireless networks by the end of the summer, park officials said. Independent contractor A person who contracts to do work for another person according to his or her own processes and methods; the contractor is not subject to another's control except for what is specified in a mutually binding agreement for a specific job. Wi-Fi Salon LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control won the bid to install the technology for the Department of Parks and Recreation initiative. The company has already installed a wireless network in New York's Battery Park. The city is modeling its efforts after private projects that have put wireless Internet in other city parks. |
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