> Any idea where the funding came from to do this. It is > interesting that of the Manhattan libraries only one of > them is in midtown or even close to midtown. It almost > looks like some sort of digital divide initiative. > Well, I beg to differ. Actually, 2 Wifi libraries (Dornell and Mid-Manhattan) on the list are located in midtown (53rd b/t 5th and 6th and 40th/5th, respectively), and SIBL on 34th and Lex's got a 10MBit wired connection already. Of course, NYPL research on 42nd's got a full blown nycwireless AP next door at Bryant park. Those 4 wired library represents 40% of the midtown libraries, not including the braille/talking book library, which will probably not be a Wifi beneficiary anyways. I bet that if I look at the branch maps and correlate it with a Wifi coverage map for NYCWireless I would say that Wifi coverage for those midtown librarie will be better than you might think.
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