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LinkNWK Already Looks a Lot Like LinkNYC

I found plenty of working payphones in Newark. The new LinkNWK Smart City kiosks were not so promising.

7 years ago

LinkNYC’s Manufacturing Facility Demolished

LinkNYC's manufacturing plant at 11-37 31st Avenue has been demolished.

7 years ago

What The Heck Was “LinkNYC Alert”?

A rah-rah piece about LinkNYC in Venturebeat briefly and unintentionally included a strange image of something called "LinkNYC Alert". What…

7 years ago

LinkNYC: Guess The Current Temperature

Weather conditions reported by LinkNYC vary so much from one machine to the next that guessing which report is accurate…

7 years ago

LinkNYC Kiosk Installations Have Come to a Halt, and Other Observations

Last week I posted a map of LinkNYC kiosks with the reported functional status of each machine's WiFi, tablet, and…

7 years ago

LinkNYC: On This Day, and Missing the Bus Revisited

Was it on this day, that day, or another day? Who's to say? Also, I put LinkNYC's bus arrival time…

7 years ago

Can You Pay a Parking Ticket Using LinkNYC?

You are supposed to be able to but you cannot. But then, why would anybody want to pay for anything…

7 years ago

LinkNYC Misses the Bus

The MTA bus arrival time feature has returned to the LinkNYC kiosks, and it sucks the same as it did…

7 years ago

Updated: LinkNYC Real Time Kiosk Status Data Released

Everything looks awesome on the LinkNYC network according to a dataset released by the city last week that purportedly shows…

7 years ago

What is CityBridge Doing With My Phone Number?

Phone numbers called through LinkNYC kiosks are being harvested by CityBridge in plain text, and no one in the privacy…

7 years ago