UES Residents Complain About Those WiFi Kiosks (camping, buses)

[BugsyPal]

Drug deals, homeless encampments, the list of horrors goes on: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...g-deals-locals

[antinimby]

The only people I see using them are homeless men.

[BugsyPal]

None of this should come as a surprise to the City. In their end days the main users of pay telephones were drug dealers in indoor prostitutes.


Yes, on the UES have noticed more than a few homeless men camped out at these kiosks. Interesting to see some dirty, bearded and long haired "homeless" person with a tablet plugged into Wifi. It does prove what one has said all along; many of these so called homeless aren't as destitute as some imagine.


Only other group see using these kiosks on the UES are the various Latino/Hispanic workers as they get off work and head towards the subway, buses or walking northward towards Harlem.

[antinimby]

And how many millions of taxpayer money did the city waste on this bright idea?

[WhyRUMad]

White people problems.

[bklynkenny]

Originally Posted by antinimby

And how many millions of taxpayer money did the city waste on this bright idea?

$0. Everything funded, paid for by Link NYC, whose ultimate parent comany is Google.

[Gee1995]

I haven't seen anybody, "homeless" or otherwise, camping out at the kiosks, and I've been very interested in this addition to infrastructure. I use them all the time (to surf so I don't draw on my data plan, not to charge my battery) and I am a WASP.

[BBMW]

I don't know if it reached the level of camping out, but I saw some guy who had gotten pretty comfortable hooked up to one.

[rgr555]

All this for internet speeds less than 20% of South Korea's

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by Gee1995

I haven't seen anybody, "homeless" or otherwise, camping out at the kiosks, and I've been very interested in this addition to infrastructure. I use them all the time (to surf so I don't draw on my data plan, not to charge my battery) and I am a WASP.

Well I have, right on the corner of East 80th and Third Avenue, right outside that CityRow. Seems the guy was told to sling his hook as it was only for a few days.