Prospect Park to Get Free Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi is coming to Prospect Park as part of a plan to have 20 parks offer internet hotspots by the end of the summer.

Parks officials couldn't yet say when the service will come to Prospect Park, or where in the park it would be, but the hotspots rolled out today at Battery Bosque in Battery Park as well as North-End Playground in Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx and around the recreation center at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem.

In a news release, city officials touted the service as a way to make it easier for New Yorkers to do things like job search. They also called it an incentive "to spend more time outdoors this summer."

AT&T is paying for the service, city officials said.

There is also free AT&T Wi-Fi at Times Square and along Park Avenue as well as near Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the Ed Sullivan Theater.  

The 20 parks are:

Bronx: Joyce Kilmer Park, Bronx River Park and Devoe Park

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Fort Greene Park, Herbert Von King Park, McCarren Park and Prospect Park

Manhattan: Battery Park, Thomas Jefferson Park, Central Park (multiple locations), the High Line, Holcombe Rucker Park, Marcus Garvey Park and Tompkins Square Park

Queens: Astoria Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park and MacDonald Park

Staten Island: Clove Lake Park and South Beach

We’ll let you know as soon as we hear more details on Prospect Park.