{"id":25985,"date":"2013-12-13T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=25985"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:36:27","slug":"free-wifi-comes-harlem-largest-zone-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=25985","title":{"rendered":"Harlem getting the biggest free WiFi network in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/imgres-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25988\" alt=\"free wifi via harlemcondolife.com\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/imgres-1.jpeg\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harlem will soon follow Chelsea in having free outdoor Wifi. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/free-wifi-chelsea-thanks-google-article-1.1235508\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea&#8217;s free Wifi is courtesy of Google.<\/a> \u00a0Harlem&#8217;s free Wifi is courtesy of\u00a0financier Glenn Fuhrman, \u00a0a former Goldman Sachs managing director who now heads MSD Capital and his wife Amanda, who donated $2 million to the city to pay for the wiring.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-five blocks of Harlem will be getting free outdoor Wifi. \u00a0Coverage spans from 110th to 138th Street between Madison Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. \u00a0The Harlem zone is ten times larger than the one in Chelsea. \u00a0\u00a0It will be the the largest free WiFi zone in America.<\/p>\n<p>110th to 120th streets will be wired in Dec. \u00a0The rest by May. \u00a080,000 residents including 13,000 could benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The city is hosting a contest with local school kids to pick out a name and password.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its pretty exciting,&#8221; Fuhrman told the News. &#8220;I\u2019ve never done anything before where the mayor came to say thank you in person.\u201dHe said he chose Harlem because he knew the area from his philanthropic work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3BufY5ij98\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Childrens Zone<\/a>, a hugely respected non-profit in the area.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2013\/12\/harlem-will-be-wired-for-free-wifi-by-may\">Harlem Will Be Wired For Free Wifi By May | New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlem will soon follow Chelsea in having free outdoor Wifi. \u00a0Chelsea&#8217;s free Wifi is courtesy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179,2020179,103804,124715430,12756786,124715451,6,124715431,296199],"tags":[77809719,124716261,124716255,8608931,222412,124716256,124716257,81,124718158,9616711,93470272,124716259,124716260,15427,124716258,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25989,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions\/25989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}