Press

• CNET - Oct 1, 2023 Affordable Internet for the People

  "Volunteer-based organizations like NYC Mesh aim to close the digital divide and build real-life connections."

• CNET - Sep 25, 2023 Digital Heroes (Video)

  "Connecting New Yorkers to Affordable, High-Speed Internet Access"

• EV Grieve - Jun 12, 2023 East Village volunteers finally made Wi-Fi a reality for asylum seekers

  "This...will allow the asylum seekers to make their immigration calls and check-ins and also message family and friends."

• Next City - Nov 8, 2022 What Happened To New York City’s Internet Master Plan?

  "this plan was ripped away from us"

• Newsweek - Dec 15, 2021 ENDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS

  "NYC Mesh, a community WiFi initiative, offers an affordable way to circumvent internet service providers and bring high-speed internet access to underserved neighborhoods—without harvesting and reselling user data."

• Freethink - Oct 23, 2021 NYC’s nonprofit DIY internet is taking on Verizon & more

  "One non-profit is looking to challenge the top dogs by providing people with another option of where they get their internet.[VIDEO]"

• Motherboard - Oct 8, 2021 Building A More Human Internet in NYC

  "NYC Mesh, a group building their own decentralized, wireless mesh networks across NYC [VIDEO]"

• New York Times - Jul 16, 2021 ‘Welcome to the Mesh, Brother’: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York

  "NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet."

• BKReader - May 21, 2021 BK Neighbors Are Setting Up Their Own WiFi

  "We're interested in empowering people to get what they need and build alternatives to what currently doesn't work for them."

• New York Times - Mar 3, 2021 How neighborhood groups are trying to provide a pandemic safety net

  "One group, NYC Mesh, has been trying to install rooftop routers in some so-called Wi-Fi deserts in Queens and the Bronx, where children have a hard time accessing remote schooling."

• WPIX 11 - Mar 3, 2021 New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

  "NYC Mesh is a non-profit provider"

• The Christian Science Monitor - Feb 25, 2021 The internet breaks too easily. Can that be fixed?

  "In New York, the practice has been adopted by the group NYC Mesh to create a Wi-Fi service... The result is an internet connection that doesn’t store data, and bypasses corporate internet service providers."

• Curbed - Dec 18, 2020 De Blasio Promised the Internet to Everyone. Here’s Why It’s Taken Forever.

  "The city’s master plan could allow [NYC Mesh] to expand dramatically via the city’s public fiber-optic network."

• Techdirt - Oct 30, 2020 We've Taken The Digital Divide Into Our Own Hands During Covid

  "NYC Mesh is fighting to bring digital equity to all communities of NY, and our solution is simple: provide internet to everyone."

• MIT Technology Review - Oct 21, 2020 The volunteers blanketing cities with wireless internet

  "As soon as I learned what the Mesh was,” says Espinosa, “I was like, ‘Oh, this is awesome."

• Teen Vogue - Sep 10, 2020 Internet Access Has Never Been More Important — and Unequal

  "NYC Mesh is an all-volunteer community creating its own high-speed internet service"

• Motherboard - Jul 1, 2020 Activists Are Beaming Free Wi-Fi to Protesters at NYC’s City Hall Occupation

  "Volunteers with NYC Mesh have created free Wi-Fi access points for the park’s residents"

• India West - Jun 22, 2020 Internet Collective ‘NYC Mesh’ Creates Public Archive of Surveillance Footage

  "NYC Mesh's program automatically captures an image from each traffic camera feed throughout the day and allows people to search through the public archive without having to deal with the Department of Transportation."

• Gotham Gazette - Sep 13, 2019 Community WiFi is Already Here, Now It's Time to Expand It

  "The democratization of more common wireless technology has quietly made community-run wifi networks faster, better and cheaper than cable."

• Fox5 - Aug 8, 2019 Non-profit aims to bring cheap, secure wireless internet to NYC

  "The idea that a community can just get together and bypass the ISPs and do infrastructure like this, I think it’s a very inspiring thing"

• PIX11 - Aug 7, 2019 An Internet David vs. Goliath: community group gives web connections at little or no cost

  "NYC Mesh said that it sees net neutrality as an imperative, as part of its overall mission."

• Wall Street Journal - Aug 7, 2019 New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

  "NYC Mesh is an all-volunteer community creating its own high-speed internet service"

• Vice - Jun 25, 2019 A DIY Internet Network Has Drastically Expanded Its Coverage in NYC

  "With the installation of Supernode 3, NYC Mesh now covers large swaths of both Manhattan and Brooklyn."

• NYC Mesh - Jun 13, 2019 PRESS RELEASE: NYC Mesh Begins Massive, High-Speed Wireless Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn

  "Today, NYC Mesh announced the beginning of a massive expansion of its wireless broadband network in Brooklyn, allowing for greater network capacity and opening the door to potential coverage in the neighborhoods of Sunset Park, South Slope, Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, and beyond."

• The Internet Society - Oct 17, 2018 New York City Groups Take Broadband into Their Own Hands

  "NYC Mesh’s goal is to eventually cover all of New York City"

• NY Daily News - May 29, 2018 NYC Mesh Promises to Bring 'Free' Internet to New York City with Wireless, Community-Based Service

  "Access to the world wide web is coming in the form of a community-based, non-profit organization called, NYC Mesh."

• Freifunk Radio - May 10, 2018 Podcast with Elektra and Andi Bräu

  "Brian and Zach from the New York City Mesh were on the wireless meshup and we took the chance to interview them."

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - May 2, 2018 'Anti-authority' Tech Rebels Take on ISPs, Connect NYC with Cheap Wi-Fi

  "Giles says his group is a return to the original idea of what the internet was supposed to be, free and accessible to all."

• New York Post - Apr 23, 2018 Nonprofit Aims to Keep Internet Free

  "The community-owned wireless network is an alternative to such megaproviders as Verizon and Time Warner..."

• Now This - Jan 17, 2018 Volunteers Build Wi-Fi Network in New York City

  "These guys are giving big cable the middle finger with their Wi-Fi network"

• Mashable - Jan 9, 2018 Mesh Networks

  "An existing example — with growing community numbers — is NYC Mesh"

• Scientific American - Jan 8, 2018 Alternatives for Internet Access

  "NYC Mesh’s community-owned and managed broadband network in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn is set to grow dramatically"

• Fortune - Dec 28, 2017 Interest in Local Broadband?

  "NYC Mesh has received a record number of inquiries since the FCC vote"

• Inverse - Dec 22, 2017 Is it Time to Build Your Own Internet?

  "NYC Mesh also has a guide that includes everything from how to get the entire community involved and mobilized to the specifics of the hardware required."

• Fast Company - Dec 19, 2017 Want To Guarantee Net Neutrality? Join ...

  "In Manhattan, NYC Mesh put a large antenna on top of a building connected directly to the internet through fiber optic cable."

• Motherboard - Dec 14, 2017 Building a Community Internet Network

  "Projects like these are possible and affordable today, and are being practiced by groups like NYC Mesh"

• Coindesk - Dec 14, 2017 The Fight for Net Neutrality

  "surf the internet without using a traditional internet service provider"

• Houston Chronicle - Jan 15, 2017 City Should do More to Promote Broadband

  "NYC Mesh is a neutral community network that provides access through a series of rooftop nodes and supernodes. It delivers internet service wirelessly and connects to a fiber backbone in key places. Houston officials should be actively exploring ideas such as this"

• Packet Host - Jan 15, 2017 Keep the Cloud Weird: NYC Mesh

  "This video tells the story of NYC Mesh, which is a community run and built neutral network that does not block or discriminate content."

• Vice Motherboard - Jan 25, 2016 How a DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly

  "Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American...The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it."

• We Are All Connected - Jan 25, 2016 Urban and Rural Digital Divide: NYC Mesh

  "Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American...The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it."

• Downtown Express - Jan 12, 2016 Hooking up Downtown with Free, Resilient Wi-Fi

  "They got me set up and it’s just been perfect."

• Vice Motherboard Podcast - Jan 8, 2016 The Community-Owned ISPs Building an Alternative to Big Telecom in New York City

  "...currently working to set up two “super nodes” that are jacked into a large internet exchange will allow anyone in lower Manhattan and large swaths of Brooklyn to bypass traditional internet service providers."

• New York Business Journal - Oct 7, 2015 Should ISP Giants be Worried about Mesh Networks?

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• New York Business Journal - Oct 6, 2015 Advancing Mesh Networks in the East Village

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• New York Business Journal - Oct 5, 2015 How Mesh Network Technology Could Turn the Internet Inside Out

  "A clear and explicit vision of using the technology to help wrest control away from some of the biggest Internet Service Providers in the world."

• Metro - Oct 4, 2015 NYC Mesh Works to Replace Time Warner Cable One Router at a Time

  "It's about to happen in a really big way."

• East Village Grieve - Sep 29, 2015 About Community Wi-Fi in the East Village

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• Technical.ly - Aug 15, 2015 NYC Mesh Needs Your Help Putting Time Warner Cable out of Business

  "NYC Mesh is trying to get around the big ISPs — one node at a time."

• The Brooklyn Paper - May 29, 2015 'Hoodlinked: Do-it-Yourself Internet Network Reaches Ridge

  "A group of techies aiming to build a citywide, community-owned wifi network is making inroads into Bay Ridge. Called NYC Mesh, the network links computers together using standard wifi routers..."

• PIX11 - May 29, 2015 An Escape from the Internet Goliaths? NYC Mesh Decentralizes the Network

  "NYC Mesh says if their network is successful, one day we all might be able to say goodbye to our Internet Service Providers."

• Fast Company - May 5, 2015 This Mesh we're in: Why Communities are Building an Internet that's More Local

  "NYC Mesh, hopes to eventually blanket the city in a mesh Wi-Fi network... The more routers that join the network and expand its coverage, the more useful it is..."