Listings and updates about internet, pay-TV and wi-fi alternatives on the Upper West Side.
Time Warner Cable
Customer support: FAQs, email, chat, phone
Walk-in locations:
- 60 Columbus Cir #17, New York, NY 10023
Phone:(212) 663-2792
Hours: Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm - 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
Phone:(888) 379-3578
Hours: Monday 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Verizon FIOS Internet and TV
Public web site
RCN
Public web site
Free Wi-Fi hotspots
- 128 West 72 Street – Limeleaf
- 2186 Broadway – Cosi
- 160 West 96 Street – NYCWireless
- 40 Lincoln Center Plaza – NYC Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Between Amsterdam Avenue & Columbus Avenue – Lincoln Center – North Plaza
- Between West 62 Street & West 65 Street – Lincoln Center – Josie Robertson Plaza
- West 62 Street & Amsterdam Avenue – Lincoln Center – Damrosch Park
Wi-Fi enabled subway stations
All local stations between 59th St. and 96th St. on the 1,2,3 lines and B,C lines are currently wired for free wi-fi. (Try this SSID access code: FreWifibyHTCONE). See the WNYC map of Wi-Fi stations throughout the city. At last report there were 36 of them.
Wi-Fi in the parks
NYC Parks WiFi provides a fast connection to the Internet from portable devices. Guests can login for free for 10 minutes at a time, up to three times in a 30 day period. The service is also available for 99 cents per day for a single device. Qualified Internet subscribers from Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox, and Bright House Networks will be able to access NYC Parks WiFi free of charge at all times.