Sunset Park BID giving free WiFi to 5th Avenue
A two-mile stretch of Fifth Avenue will become a giant WiFi hotspot, enabling users to have Internet access as they walk down the street, shop in stores, and relax in their apartments, under an ambitious technology upgrade planned by the Sunset Park Business Improvement District.
The Sunset Park BID, which represents property owners, merchants, and residents on Fifth Avenue from 38th Street to 64th Street, has hired Sky-Packets, a Melville, Long Island-based company, to install equipment along the avenue to give the area WiFi.
“We’re very excited about it,” BID Executive Director Renee Giordano told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Giordano added that the BID’s Board of Directors is paying for the WiFi connection, meaning that merchants and residents will enjoy free access. The system will work on Smartphones, iPads, laptop computers, and other devices.